Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 23 October 2019

Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will five conference calls for papers and one network opportunities.

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Conference Calls for Papers

Gender: Transmutations and Transgressions

The 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture

11-13 September 2020. Chester, UK

Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2019

More information: http://isrlc.org/conference/

Mind, Body, Magic: Sensory and Emotional Approaches to Magic In The Roman World

27 March 2020. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2019

More information (PDF)

British Muslim Charitable Organisations: A Best Practice Forum

15 January 2020. Birmingham, UK

Deadline for abstracts: 22 November 2019

More information: http://www.mbrn.org.uk/call-for-papers-british-muslim-charitable-organisations-a-best-practice-forum/

Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies

6-7 April 2020. The Aga Khan University, London, UK

Deadline: 17 November 2019

More information (PDF)

Rights, dignity and religion: responding to ‘modern slavery’

24 January 2020. Sheffield, UK

Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2019

More information: http://faithantitrafficking.group.shef.ac.uk/events/conference/

Networks

UK Network for the Anthropology of Christianity (UKNAC)

Part of the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA)

More information and to join the mailing list: https://www.theasa.org/networks/uknac.html