Welcome to this week’s edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! In this edition, you will find four conference call for papers, one prize, three post-doctoral positions, one conference, one job, one event, and one journal call for papers opportunities.
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Conference Call for Papers
36th ISSR/SISR ‘Religion in Global/Local Perspectives: Diffusion, Migration, Transformation’ Conference
12-15 July 2021 (digital only), Taipei, Taiwan
Paper submissions: 8 January to 28 February 2021
More information: https://www.sisr-issr.org/en/conferences/conference-2021
“Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion”
Center for Critical Research on Religion and Queens University Belfast
11-14 June 2021
Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2021
More information: https://criticaltheoryofreligion.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CCRR-Conf-Belfast.pdf
Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2021
20-22 September 2021
Deadline for abstracts: 3 May 2021
More information: https://event.mq.edu.au/apsa-2021/
Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy
3rd ANU Religion Conference
8-10 December 2021. Canberra, Australia
Deadline for proposals: 21 May 2021
More information: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/religion-and-migration-culture-and-policy-0
Prizes
2021 ATF Theological Book Prize
Deadline: 31 March 2021
More information: https://mcusercontent.com/66ad6971e58faa2afa4a0216c/files/3d597f9e-e983-47db-89a8-4494beb719fb/Book_Prize_Brochure_2.pdf
Post-Doctoral Positions
Research Associate in Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period
University of Hamburg Institute of Asian and African Studies
Deadline: 31 December 2020
More information: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/fakultaet-geisteswissenschaften/31-12-20-450-en.pdf
Post-doctoral Researcher in Qur’an and Aramaic Christianity
University of Tubingen Department of Religious Studies
Deadline: 31 December 2020
More information: https://socioloxy.com/postdoctoral-researcher-in-quran-and-aramaic-christianity,i7759.html
Post-doctoral Associate in Religion and Literature
Yale Divinity School and Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Open until filled
More information: https://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=177376486&utm_source=12_19_20&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JobAgentEmail
Conferences
UCR Conference on Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion
19-21 February 2021, online
Jobs
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in Biblical Studies
Stetson University, Florida, US
Deadline: 15 January 2020
Events
“Becoming religious: How and why beliefs and practices are transmitted.”
Inform Seminar
14 January 2021, online
More information: https://inform.ac/seminars
Journal Calls for Papers
The Bible and Migration
Topical issue of Open Theology
Deadline: 30 April 2021