Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 20 December 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of The Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find six conference call for papers and three job opportunities. 

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Conference Calls for Papers

ISSR: Social Movements, Rebellions and Revolutions through Religious Contention

9-12 July 2019. Barcelona, Spain

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Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race (TRRR) 2019 conference

July 1-5, 2019. Hekima University College, Nairobi, Kenya

Deadline for proposals: 30 January 2019

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CenSAMM 2019 conference: The Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements: Critical and Interdisciplinary Approaches

27-28 June 2019. University of Bedfordshire, UK

Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2019

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EASR 2019 Conference

25-29 June 2019. Tartu, Estonia

Extended deadline: 10 January 2019

More information: https://easr2019.org/call-for-individual-papers/ 

EASR 2019 open session: “Beyond Hinduism – but How?”

25-29 June 2019. Tartu, Estonia

Extended deadline: 10 January 2019

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DVRW Biannual Conference: “Conceptualising Religion”

3-6 September 2019. Hannover, Germany

Deadlines for open panels: 31 January 2019

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Jobs

Assistant Professor position in religious studies, gender, and sexuality

The University of Texas at Austin

Deadline: 31 December 2018

More information: https://apply.interfolio.com/58276

Faculty colleague with a specialization in Islam of the late medieval or early modern period

Florida International University

Deadline: 31 January 2019

More information: https://facultycareers.fiu.edu/?posting=516574 

Doctoral positions for Ph.D. projects: fields of Classics, Religious Studies, Sociology, Philosophy

Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt

Deadline: 15 April 2019

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