Welcome to the latest RSP opportunities digest! Here, you will find seven calls for papers, an essay prize, two conferences, and eight job opportunities.
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Call for Papers
CenSAMM: AI and Apocalypse
5–6 April 2018. Inside the Big Top at the Panacea Museum gardens, Bedford, UK
Extended deadline: 16 February 2018
More information: https://censamm.org/conferences/artificial-intelligence-and-apocalypse
Topographies in Motion: Urban Movement and Mobility in Late Antiquity (4th to 6th Centuries)
4-5 October 2018. LMU Munich, Germany
Deadline: 23 February 2018
Annual Meeting of EASSSR: Religiosity, Secularity and Pluralism in the Global East
3-5 July 2018. Singapore Management University, Singapore
Deadline: 28 February 2018
More information: http://www.easssr.org/index.php/call-for-papers/
2018 Graduate Student Conference Flourish and Decay: Exploring Religion in Process
13 April 2018. Syracuse University, USA
Extended Deadline: 3 February 2018
More information: http://religionconference.syr.edu/
IUAES 2018 Spirituality and Health: Epistemologies of Healing and the Ethnographic Encounter
16-20 July 2018. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Deadline: 28 February 2018
American Academy of Religion, Sociology of Religion Unit Annual Meeting
November 17-20 2018. Denver, Colorado
More information: https://papers.aarweb.org/content/sociology-religion-unit
Conference on Religions and Medicine: From Antiquity to Contemporary Age
5-9 June 2018. Velletri (Rome), Italy.
Deadline: 1 April 2018
Essay Prize
Peter B. Clarke Memorial Essay Prize 2018
Deadline: 31 January 2018
Conferences
International Conference on the Birth of the Science of Religion: Out of the Spirit of Occultism
14-16 February, 2018. University of Fribourg, Switzerland
More information: http://www.unifr.ch/screl/de
Antropologia Storica e Letteratura Greca
16-17 February 2018. Pisa, Italy
Jobs
Postdoctoral and Phd positions at the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity
Deadline: 2 March 2018
More information: http://www.mmg.mpg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Stellen/2018_SCD-Ausschreibungen.pdf
Postdoc research and writing fellowships at the Department of Ethics, Law, and Politics
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity
Deadline: 31 January 2018
More information: http://www.mmg.mpg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Stellen/2017-12_ELP-Postdocs.pdf
Postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Religious Diversity
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity
Deadline: 12 March 2018
More information: http://www.mmg.mpg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Stellen/2018-01_RDD_Postdoctoral_Fellowships.pdf
Funded Ph.D. positions
Coventry University
Deadline: 16th February
More information: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-students/research-studentships/225212/
PhD scholarships in Sociology
The University of Sussex
Deadline: 12th March 2018
More information: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BGK160/phd-scholarship-opportunity-in-sociology/
The Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (ECF) Competition 2018
University of Warwick
Deadline: 31st January 2018
More information: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BGE680/leverhulme-early-career-fellowship-ecf-competition-2018/
Lecturer of Sociology
The University of York
Deadline: 4th February 2018
More information: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BHG566/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-sociology/
PhD projects in Theology, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Classics
The University of Graz
Deadline: 15 April 2018