Please see below for details of 9 conferences/events, 2 scholarships, 3 jobs, and a journal call for papers. Enjoy!
Conferences and Workshops
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Spring Academy on American Culture, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion
March 19-23, 2018. Heidelberg, Germany
Deadline: 15 November 2017.
More details: http://www.hca-springacademy.de/
The Birth of the Science of Religion Out of the Spirit of Occultism
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
February 14th-16th 2018.
Deadline: 15 October 2017.
Apocalypse in Art: The Creative Unveiling
Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM)
June 28 – 29, 2018. Inside the Big Top at the Panacea Museum Gardens, Bedford, United Kingdom
CenSAMM Symposia Series 2018 / www.censamm.org
Abstracts are due by February 28, 2018.
AI and Apocalypse
Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM)
April 5 – 6, 2018. Inside the Big Top at the Panacea Charitable Trust gardens, Bedford, United Kingdom
CenSAMM Symposia Series 2018 / www.censamm.org
Abstracts are due by December 31, 2017.
Multiple Religious Identities – Individuals, Communities, Traditions
16th Annual Conference of the EASR / Regional Conference of the IAHR
17-21 June 2018, Bern, Switzerland
More information can be found at www.easr2018.org
The deadline for submission of pre-arranged session proposals: October 1, 2017.
Emergent Spheres of the Secular in Colonial Asia
26-28 September 2017, Leipzig University, Germany
For more information visit http://www.multiple-secularities.de/events/event/workshop-on-emergent-spheres-of-the-secular-in-colonial-asia/
Please register before 15 September if you want to participate as a listener.
Layers of Interpretation – Commentarial Practices Throughout Buddhist Textual Traditions
June 15-16, 2018, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
The deadline for applications is November 15, 2017.
More information:
http://www.en.buddhismus-studien.uni-muenchen.de/currentissues/cfp_workshop2018/index.html
Islamic Education Summer School
24-26 September 2017, University of Warwick, UK
Registration will close on 14th of September.
Further details and registration: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ces/news/islamiceducationsummerschool2017/
Contemporary Religion in Historical Perspective,
Milton Keynes, UK. Feb 19-21 2018.
Deadline: 30 October 2017.
More details: tinyurl.com/ours2018.
Scholarships
Herzog-Ernst-Scholarship
Programme of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at the Research Library Gotha and the Gotha Research Centre of Erfurt University
Deadline: 15 October 2017
PhD scholarship in Biblical Studies
University of Tartu, Estonia
Application deadline: 30 September 2017
More details: http://www.us.ut.ee/en/news/phd-scholarship-biblical-studies-0
Jobs
Lectureship
Liverpool Hope University are seeking to employ a lecturer on an hourly-paid basis to teach a unit in Hinduism at 3rd year undergraduate level. The unit comprises a weekly lecture and seminar, taught on Mondays at 9.00-10.and 10.00-11.00. The teaching weeks are w/b 12.02.2018-02.04.2018 and 30.04 – 07.05. The unit is assessed by an examination question, marked by the lecturer. For further details please contact Dr. Peter McGrail, Head of Department – mcgraip@hope.ac.uk.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
American religions / religious traditions in the Americas, Elln University, USA
More details: https://main.hercjobs.org/jobs/10209880/assistant-professor-of-religious-studies-tenure-track
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow/PhD Studentships
The Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham, UK seeks to appoint 1 Post-doctoral Research Fellow and to award 2 PhD studentships to work on the ERC-funded project ‘Creating an Alternative umma: Clerical Authority and Religio-political Mobilisation in Transnational Shii Islam (ALTERUMMA)’ project, led by Professor Oliver Scharbrodt. This interdisciplinary project investigates the transformation of Shii Islam in the Middle East and Europe since the 1950s. The project begins in January 2018 and will in the course of its five-year duration include four post-doctoral researchers and three PhD students.
The Research Fellow and PhD students will work on the first thematic area of the project which begins in January 2018. As part of this thematic area, the various ways in which Shii clerical authorities in Iran and Iraq have positioned themselves towards the modern nation-state are explored.
- The research fellow will investigate the role of senior clerical figures in Iran in the lead-up to the Islamic Revolution in 1979. For more information, see: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BDS780/research-fellow/
- One PhD student will work on how the clerical establishment in Najaf has intervened in and positioned itself towards post-2003 Iraqi sectarian politics and responded to the sectarianisation of Middle Eastern geopolitics. For more information, see: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BDE834/phd-studentship-iraqi-clerics-and-the-state-after-2003/
- The other PhD student will work on the position of current clerical authorities in Iran towards the Islamic Republic and its underpinning ideology and their religio-political interventions in a political system that fuses clerical and political authority. For more information, see: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BDE835/phd-studentship-iranian-clerics-and-the-state-in-post-revolutionary-iran/
Further information about the project, see: cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/211385_en.html
Journals
Entangled Religions
ENTANGLED RELIGIONS IS CALLING FOR PAPERS
Our new Call for Papers is online. We welcome contributions which address issues of religious contact and transfer… https://er.ceres.rub.de/index. php/ER/announcement/view/33