Welcome back to the latest edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will one award, one event, three journal calls for papers, three jobs and fellowships, and six conference calls for papers opportunities.
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Awards
2020 Sandford St Martin Awards
Deadline: 31 January 2020
More information (PDF)Events
Yoga Psychology: Insights into the mind in the Yogasūtra of Patañjali
26 November 2019. SOAS, London, UK
More information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yoga-psychology-insights-into-the-mind-in-the-yogasutra-of-patanjali-tickets-80644613209
Journal Call for Papers
International Journal for the Study of New Religions
Deadline: 5 December 2019
More information (PDF)Digital Visibilities of the Religious
Deadline: 15 January 2020
More information: https://digitalreligion.tamu.edu/news/wed-10302019-1500/call-papers-digital-visibilities-religious
Religion & Ecology
Special issue of Religions
Deadline: 31 May 2020
More information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/religion_climate
Jobs and Fellowships
Doctoral Research Fellowship within 20th Century American Studies/American History
University of Oslo, Norway
Deadline: 31 January 2020
More information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/176968/doctoral-research-fellowship-within-20th-century-american-studies-american-history
Fellowship for Health Humanities
Center for Health Humanities at MCPHS University
Spring Semester 2020. Boston, US
Deadline: 15 January 2020
More information (PDF)Faculty Member – Linguistics and Religious Studies
The University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Deadline: 15 December 2019
More information: https://usask.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?id=3359&site=14
Conference Call for Papers
British Muslim Charitable Organisations: A Best Practice Forum
15 January 2020. Birmingham, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 22 November 2019
More information: http://www.mbrn.org.uk/call-for-papers-british-muslim-charitable-organisations-a-best-practice-forum/
Rethinking Media, Religion and Secularities
Conference of the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture Conference
4-7 of August 2020. Sigtuna, Sweden
Deadline for Paper proposals: 6 December 2019
More information: https://aasr.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=66ad6971e58faa2afa4a0216c&id=833a925666&e=0f674ac9ff
International Communication Association Preconference on Intersectional Imaginaries in Media, Religion & Gender
May 2020. Gold Coast, Australia
Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2019
More information: https://digitalreligion.tamu.edu/news/wed-10232019-1136/cfp-ica-preconf-intersectional-imaginaries-media-religion-gender
The XXII Quinquennial World Congress of the IAHR
New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions
23-29 August 2020. The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Deadline: 31 December 2019
More information: https://www.iahr2020.kiwi/
Navigating the non/confessional in university Islamic studies
20-22 April 2020. University of Birmingham, UK
Deadline: 17 January 2020
More information: http://www.mbrn.org.uk/call-for-papers-navigating-the-non-confessional-in-university-islamic-studies/
“Religion and the urban, natural and virtual environments”
Bi-Annual Conference of the ESA RN34- Sociology of Religion
26-28 August 2020. Groningen, Netherlands
Deadline for Abstracts: 31 January 2020
More information (PDF)