Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find two conference call for papers, one symposium, three job, and one research project opportunities.
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Conference Call for Papers
BASR-ISASR conference: Borders and Boundaries: ‘Religion’ on the Periphery
3–5 September 2018. Queen’s University, Belfast.
EXTENDED Deadline: 25 May 2018
Pregnancies, Childbirths, and Religions: Rituals, Normative Perspectives, and Individual Appropriations
11-12 July 2018. University of Erfurt.
Deadline: 10 May 2018
Symposium
Supernatural Places Revisited: The Spatial Dimensions of Folklore and Sagas
5 June 2018. Tartu, Estonia.
More information: https://www.maailmakeeled.ut.ee/en/about-us/supernatural-places-revisited-spatial-dimensions-folklore-and-saga
Jobs
Research Assistant for History of Humanism project
University of Glasgow / Oxford Brookes University
Deadline: 23 May 2018.
2 Doctoral Positions for Ph.D. Projects in the Fields of History and History of Religion
University of Erfurt
Deadline: 23 May 2018
3 Post-Doctoral Positions for Habilitation Projects in the Fields of History and History of Religion
University of Erfurt
Deadline: 23 May 2018
Research Project
“THERE – Theory and Empiricism of Religious Evolution”
Center for Religious Studies (CERES), Led by Professor Volkhard Krech