Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week is jam-packed – you will find four journal call for papers, six conference call for papers, one funding, three PhD scholarships and fellowships, three courses and workshops and one event opportunities.
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Journal Calls for Papers
Special Issue on Religion and Violence
Journal for the Academic Study of Religion
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2020
Special Issue on Religion and Violence
Religion and Gender Journal
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2020
Special Issue “Religious Engagement with Climate Change”
Religions
Deadline: 31 May 2020
More information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/religion_climate
Digital Visibilities of the Religious
Recherches en communication
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2020
More information: https://digitalreligion.tamu.edu/news/wed-10302019-1500/call-papers-digital-visibilities-religious
Conference Calls for Papers
Rethinking Media, Religion and Secularities
Conference of the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture
4-7 of August 2020. Sigtuna, Sweden
Deadline for proposals: 6 December 2019
More information: https://www.ismrc.org/
International Communication Association Preconference on Intersectional Imaginaries in Media, Religion & Gender
May 2020. Gold Coast, Australia
Deadline extended: 14 Jan 2020
More information: https://digitalreligion.tamu.edu/news/wed-10232019-1136/cfp-ica-preconf-intersectional-imaginaries-media-religion-gender
The XXII Quinquennial World Congress of the IAHR
23-29 August 2020. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Submission deadline: 31 December 2019
More information: https://www.iahr2020.kiwi/
Navigating the non/confessional in university Islamic studies
20-22 April 2020. University of Birmingham, UK
Deadline: 17 January 2020
More information: http://www.mbrn.org.uk/call-for-papers-navigating-the-non-confessional-in-university-islamic-studies/
Religion and the urban, natural and virtual environments
Bi-Annual Conference of the ESA RN34- Sociology of Religion
26-28 August 2020. Groningen, Netherlands
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2020
The Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements: Critical and Interdisciplinary Approaches
The Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM)
29-30 June 2020. University of Bedfordshire, Bedford Campus, UK
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2020
More information: https://censamm.org/conferences/SAMM-2020
Funding
The Religion and Sexual Abuse Project
Deadline for proposals: 1 February 2020
PhD Scholarships and Fellowships
4 PhD scholarships: Atlas of Religion Project
University of Queensland, Australia
More information: https://hpi.uq.edu.au/project/queensland-atlas-religion
Postdoctoral Research Positions: Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Arizona State University, US
More information: https://csrc.asu.edu/content/open-positions
Postdoctoral Fellowship: The Center for Religion and the Human (CRH)
Indiana University, US
Deadline: 10 January 2020
More information: https://crh.indiana.edu/projects/religion-science-technology/post-doctoral-fellowship.html
Courses and Workshops
Religion and Cultural Change Summer School and Conference
8-10 June 2020. Åbo/Turku, Finland
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2020
More information: http://blogs2.abo.fi/religionandculturalchange/
Public Scholarship of Religion in an Age of Hypermediation – Spring Workshop
6-10 May, 2020. Boulder, Colorado, USA
Deadline for applications: 31 January 2020
More information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/8378/discussions/5216163/call-applications-workshop-%E2%80%9Cpublic-scholarship-religion-age
Events
Immortality: Beliefs and Practices
Inform Seminar
1 February 2020. Kings College, London, UK