Happy New Year and welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find one job, three conference call for papers, and three event opportunities.
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Jobs
Associate Professor in the Study of Religions
University of Bergen, Norway
Deadline: 24 January 2019
More information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/162079/foersteamanuensis-i-religionsvitenskap
Conference Calls for Papers
EASR 2019: Classical Mythologies in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Sources
25-29 June 2019. Tartu, Estonia.
Extended Deadline: 10 January 2019
SSSR 2019 Meeting: Diversifying the Social Scientific Study of Religion: The Next Seventy Years
25-27 October 2018. St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Deadline: 31 March 2019
More information: https://sssreligion.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/
“Religion, Civil Society and Personal (Family) Law Reform in Post-Colonial Nation States: Interrogating Secularity in India and Beyond”
25 June 2019. Leipzig University, Germany
Deadline: 15 February 2019
Events
The Yoga of the Amṛtasiddhi with James Mallinson
14th January. SOAS, London, UK
Public Lecture: Alevi Kurds and the Transformation of Sacred Space: How ‘Kemeré Duzgı’ became ‘Düzgün Baba Cemevi’
15 January 2019. Bibliotheca Albertina, Leipzig University, Germany
Conference on Leadership, Authority and Representation in British Muslim Communities
21 January 2019. Cardiff University, Wales
Deadline for registration: 9 January 2019
More information: http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/islamukcentre/conference-on-leadership-authority-and-representation-in-british-muslim-communities/
Cardiff University 2019 Public Seminar series
Beginning 6 February 2019
More information: http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/islamukcentre/2019-public-seminar-series/