Welcome to this week’s edition of the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! You will find four academic research and teaching positions, one conference call for papers, one workshop, two journal calls for papers, two summer schools and students institutes, and one paid internship.
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Academic Research and Teaching Positions
Philosophy & Religious Studies Instructor
University of North Florida, US
Position Open until Filled
More information: https://www.unfjobs.org/postings/19754?fbclid=IwAR0S1b95wxOyLn00ohSwkUwVzaSbgU05tkVGsglP3WJvjr7MnDkYPWkngJ4
Postdoctoral Research Associate – “Automatic Collation for Diversifying Corpora: Improving Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Arabic-script Manuscripts”
Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Lecturer in African American Religions
Dartmouth College, US
Deadline: 5 May 2022
More information: https://apply.interfolio.com/105748?fbclid=IwAR2QVPAi4guYYuslgzVvnvWLWxRFDV5Lkv8evXeMmjAapbrwMtzX_yz1k3c
Lecturer in the Modern Middle East
Harvard University, US
Deadline: 1 May 2022
More information: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/11193?fbclid=IwAR29Rev3ifOUXVuvwg5gFweDtoutGCN3h2u6b-A4LK5uVgxN_VKVaCOzCYE
Conference Calls for Papers
‘British Muslim Studies at 50: Retrospect and Prospect’
A conference organised by the Muslims in Britain Research Network & the Islam-UK Centre, Cardiff University
14-15 September 2022
Deadline for Proposals: 15th June 2022
More information: https://mbrn.org/
Workshops
Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) 2022
18-19 November 2022. University of California, Los Angeles, US
More information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BfLnCOqYJ9VRq5uH7sUIIzIBJsDxRt6eGAZXWfyYmuU/viewform?edit_requested=true
Journal Call for Papers
WEB Du Bois: Religion and Social Inequality
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Special Issue
Deadline: 1 June 2022
More information: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/JSSR%20-%20Call%20for%20Papers%20(Full)_Feb%202022.pdf
Political Theology and the State of Exception: Critical readings on the centenary of Political Theology & Roman Catholicism and Political Form
Open Theology
Deadline: 30 June 2022
Summer Schools and Student Institutes
Researching Migration and Religious Diversity: Theories, Methods and Practices
COST Action “Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity” (COREnet)
29 June 29 – 3 July 2022. Kaunas, Lithuania
More information: https://www.vdu.lt/en/training-school-researching-migration-and-religious-diversity/
“Islam in the Contemporary World”
Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW) Graduate Student Institute
1 – 13 August 2022
Deadline: 31 May 2022
More information: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/graduate-student-institute-2022.html
Paid Internships
Submissions Editor for the FSR BLOG
Feminist Studies in Religion (FSR)
Position to begin 1 July 2022
More information: https://www.fsrinc.org/web-articles/fsr-is-hiring/?fbclid=IwAR1L5yR90w3uI11OUk5dop8tzewX61GgURXJFm0660jNMrRT0bilnBnBV_8