Welcome to the latest RSP opportunities digest – slightly delayed – where you will find details of five conference calls for papers, a day conference, an essay prize, and a new database. If you come across any opportunities of relevance to the global RS community, or if you want to promote anything yourself, then simply send an email to oppsdigest@religiousstudiesproject.com and we’ll see what we can do.
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Calls for Papers
CenSAMM: AI & Apocalypse
5–6 April 2018. Inside the Big Top at the Panacea Museum gardens, Bedford, UK
Deadline: 31 December 2017
More information: http://censamm.org/conferences/call-for-papers/ai-and-apocalypse-april-5-and-6-2018
Religions and Identities in the European Migration Crisis
30 August–1 September 2018. TURIN (IT), University of Turin, Campus Luigi Einaudi
Deadline: 10 January 2018
Fifth Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies
9–11 April 2018, University of Exeter, UK
Deadline: 3 December 2017
Flourish and Decay: Exploring Religion in Process
Graduate Student Conference
13 April 2018. Syracuse University, USA.
Deadline: 20 January 2018
BSA SOCREL 2018 Conference
Theme: Religion and Education
10–12 July 2018, University of Strathclyde, UK
Deadline: 11 December 2017
Day Conference
Faiths & Civil Society: Building Bridges or Walls?
13 December 2017. Imperial Wharf, London, UK
Deadline to register: 26 November 2017
More information: https://bsasocrelstudygroup.wildapricot.org/page-314501
Essay Prize
Peter B. Clarke Memorial Essay Prize
Deadline: 31 January 2018
More information: https://bsasocrelstudygroup.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/BSA%20Peter%20B%20Clarke%20Memorial%20Prize%202018%20call.pdf
New Database
Database of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements
Produced by Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM) and INFORM.