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In this issue:
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Journals
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Books
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Call for papers
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Jobs
- Funding
JOURNALS
Journal of Buddhist Ethics – All articles and reviews are free to view and download and may be located at http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics .
Popular Anthropology Magazine is now available free online at http://popanthro.org/ojs/index.php/popanthro
Journal of Hindu Studies – advance notice http://jhs.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/recent?papetoc
Contemporary Buddhism, Vol 14, issue 1 http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcbh20/14/1#.UdXVQG0090o
BOOKS
Colin Barker, Laurence Cox, John Krinsky and Alf Nilsen, eds., (2013), Marxism and social movements. Leiden: Brill (Historical Materialism book series).
482pp. hardback; ISBN 9789004211759
List price €129 / $179 (discount €96.75 / $134.25); order via brill.com/marxism-and-social-movements<http://brill.com/marxism-and-social-movements> using discount code 50555 until 31.12.2013
Release date June 21 2013
CALLS FOR PAPERS
CFP: Center for Religion and the Media
Religion in the Digital Age II: Mediating ‘the Human’ in a Globalizing Asia”
Conference CFP, NYU Center for Religion and Media, Sept 27-28, 2013
Deadline for proposal, July 31, 2013 to angela.zito[at] nyu.edu
http://www.crmnyu.org/conference-call-for-papers-2013/
CFP: Religion in Cyberspace 2013
Venue: Brno
Country: Czech Republic
Organiser: Faculty of Law, School of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno
Homepage: http://cyberspace.muni.cz/english/index.php
Deadline: Jul 31, 2013 http://www.digitalislam.eu/article.do?articleId=8301
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication has issued a general CFP for work exploring transformations in culture, communication & politics in Middle East and North Africa
http://www.brill.com/middle-east-journal-culture-and-communication
CFP: Conference CFP: Doctor Who and Religion [Manchester 2nd Nov 2013] – August 16th
contact email: DrWhoReligion [at] gmail.com
Abstracts should be 250 words in length, and include a short biography of the author. Abstracts should be sent to DrWhoReligion [at] gmail.com. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 16th August 2012.
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/51965
CFP: East-Asian Translation Studies conference
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
19 and 20 June 2014
Details and the Call for Papers are on the website:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/lcs/events/east-asian-translation-studies-conference
Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies
Date: 2013-08-10
Description: Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies is a double blind peer reviewed quarterly journal which will publish original unpublished papers on Comparative Literature theory, history of the disciplines and trends, Translation Studies, Cultural Studies and any area of Indian Lite …
Contact: ijclts2013 [AT] gmail.com
URL: sites.google.com/site/indjournalofclts/home
Announcement ID: 204870
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=204870
CFP: Long Island Philosophical Society – (50th anniversary)
Location: New York
Date: 2014-03-07
Description: Please send papers of about 10-12 pages on any philosophical topic. Submissions from both undergraduate and graduate students are welcome. Long Island Philosophical Society – (50th anniversary) Date – 04/26/2014 Location – Molloy College, NY (Rockville Centre) Organizer – Glenn Statile StatileG@stjo …
Contact: StatileG[at] stjohns.edu
Announcement ID: 204871
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=204871
CFP: 2nd Biennial University of Toronto Graduate Student Conference on South Asian Religions – The Methods of Memory, to be held on November 1-2, 2013.
Proposals of no more than 300 words, a list of five keywords, and a CV should be sent to TorontoCSAR[at] gmail.com by September 1, 2013. For further enquiries, please contact arun.brahmbhatt [at] mail.utoronto.ca or eric.steinschneider[at] mail.utoronto.ca.
To view a poster of the call, see the attached file or visit http://www.sareligionuoft.ca/events/upcoming/.
JOBS
University of Sydney – LECTURER IN ARCHAEOLOGY
<http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46870>
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Full-time Faculty in Art History – Contemporary Art History and Theory <http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46883>
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Full-time Faculty in Art History – Modern and Contemporary Architecture <http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46884>
Japan Society – Director, Education and Family Programs, Japan Society <http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46882>
University of Oregon – Assistant Professor in Native American, Pacific Islander, or Indigenous Studies
<http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46869>
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Faculty Positions (Anthropology and Philosophy)<http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46887>
FUNDING
Opening of applications for the 2014 BDK fellowship program for Japanese students and scholars who want to research Buddhism.
Here’s the web site: http://www.bdk.or.jp/bdk/foreigner.html
The English announcement for non-Japanese scholars will be posted a bit later.