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Calls for papers
Western Esotericism in Central and Eastern Europe over the Centuries
Calls for: 20 minute paper proposals
Send: Author’s affiliation and a short abstract
To: Karolina M. Kotkowska km.kotkowska@gmail.com and ceenaswe2014@gmail.com
Deadline: April 15, 2014.
ASA-UK 2014: Religion and the Congolese Diaspora
September 2014
Between East and West: Youth, Religion and Politics
October 16-17, 2014
Riga, Latvia
Calls for: 20 minutes proposals with 10 minutes for discussion
Deadline: June 1, 2014
Religion and Remembering
Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (ISASR) and Queen’s University, Belfast.
May 23-24, 2014
Christianity and the Limits of Materiality
University of Turku, Finland
September 25-26, 2014
Journal of Research in Peace, Gender and Development (JRPGD)
JRPGD is calling for research articles!
Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia
The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) invites scholars to review books for the winter edition of the journal.
International Institute of Islamic Thought
The Fairfax Institute
Theme: Islamic Law and Ethics
June 16-21, 2014
Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2014
CHAOS: Scandinavian Journal for the History of Religions. Symposium: Religion and Nature
University of Copenhagen
May 23-24, 2014
Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2014
Conferences and events
Women Modernists and Spirituality: A Symposium
22-23 May 2014
British Association for Modernist Studies
University of Stirling
Keynote speakers: Suzanne Hobson (Queen Mary University of London), Lara Vetter (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
The Virgin Mary in Britain and Ireland
June 26-28, 2014
York St John University Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Keynote speakers: Richard Marks (University of Cambridge), Ian Ker (University of Oxford), Catherine O’Brien (Kingston University London)
Religion: Views from Japan
March 20, 9-11am
Université de Genève, Uni Bastions, B105
Speaker: Jason Ānanda Josephson (Williams College)
FD Maurice lectures 2014: Religion & Sociology: a marriage made in heaven or hell?
March 18-20, 2014
King’s College London
Speaker: James A. Beckford (University of Warwick)
Dissonant Voices: Faith and the Irish Diaspora
March 8, 2014
London Irish Centre
Speakers: Msgr. Raymond Murray, Fr Joe McVeigh, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Dr Oliver Rafferty SJ. Co-chairs: Fr. Gerry McFlynn, Dr Dianne Kirby (University of Ulster)
The Third Groningen-Leuven Encounter on the Dead Sea Scrolls
April 15, 2014
Leuven
6th SSEASR Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka
South and Southeast Asian Association for Culture and Religion (SSEASR)
University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
June 4-11, 2015
15th Annual Researching Africa Day Workshop
St Antony’s College, Oxford
March 12, 2014
“This year’s theme is ‘It’s Complicated’: Critical Reflections on the Lived Experience of Research in Africa
Researching Africa Day provides graduate students with the opportunity to network with fellow researchers, exchange information, discuss research strategies, and develop ideas in a constructive, stimulating, and engaging environment. The workshop is open to all graduates working on Africa within the disciplines of history, politics, economics, development studies, literature, anthropology, sociology, social policy, geography, public health, and the natural sciences. We particularly welcome participation from students beyond Oxford.”
Creating Myths as Narratives of Empowerment and Disempowerment
High Institute of Human Sciences of Jendouba, Tunisia
March 10-12, 2014
Research Seminar on Body, Voice and Religion
“I sing the body electric”: Body as Voice from a Musicological, Technological, and Religious Studies Perspective
University of Hull
June 3, 2014
Summer school
Serbian Folklore Summer School
University of Novi Sad
July 6-20, 2014
Scholarships and research funding
The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
Scholarship for research or research affiliated studies in Turkish languages and turkology.
The Panacea Charitable Trust Grants
Deadline: April 30, 2014
PhD studentships, post docs and other research positions
The Occupy Movement in Theory and Practice
Canterbury Christ Church University
“The Occupy Movement emerged in late 2011, and appeared to assume the status of a global phenomenon. Even though there has been an extensive commentary in the popular media on this latest wave of anti-capitalist mobilisation, there has yet to be a comprehensive in-depth theoretically informed comparative analysis of this movement. As an original contribution to knowledge, this research aims to fill this gap. For comparative purposes, this research will analyse the complex mobilisation of Occupy in the US and UK contexts, building on already existing work of the project supervisors, Dr David Bates and Dr Matthew Ogilvie.”
Application deadline: April 30, 2014
Salaried PhD positions at the Faculty of Arts, Umeå University, Sweden
Application deadline: March 31, 2014
10 jobs at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
- Up to four Staff Research Fellows
- Three Post-doctoral Research Fellows
- Two Post-doctoral Write-up Fellows
- One Doctoral Student