Welcome to this week’s Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find two summer program, two funding, four conference call for papers, one post-doctoral, and one event opportunities.
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Summer Programs
Visions of The Occult: Introduction to Western Esotericism
5-23 July 2020. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Deadline: 1 April 2020
More information: https://summerschool.uva.nl/content/summer-courses/visions-of-the-occult/visions-of-the-occult.html?origin=PtN3uwswQquDlGtnNX3fZg
Caring for the Future of the Planet: The Ecological Turn in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
June – July 2020. The Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland
Deadline: 29 February 2020
More information: https://institute.oikoumene.org/en/study-at-bossey/study-courses/certificate-of-advanced-studies-cas-in-interreligious-studies
Funding
Bursaries for the 2020 IAHR World Congress
23-29 August 2020. Dunedin, New Zealand
Deadline: 1 April 2020
More information: http://easr.info/test/
Research Grants relating to the peoples of Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim and neighbouring Himalayan areas, their society, religion and material culture
Frederick Williamson Memorial Fund
Deadline: 15 March 2020
Conference Calls for Papers
Regulating religions? Legal and social status in contemporary Europe
1-2 October 2020. University of Porto, Portugal
Deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2020
More information: https://regulatreligio.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en
Humour and Religion
International Society for Humor Studies
29 June – 3 July 2020. Bologna, Italy
Deadline for abstracts: 20 February 2020
More information: https://eventi.unibo.it/ishs-2020
Intentional Transformative Experiences: Theorizing Self-Cultivation in Religion and Philosophy
30 August – 1 September 2020. University of Bern, Switzerland
Deadline: 15 April 2020
Theories of Violence
2020 SBL and AAR Annual Meetings
21-24 November 2020. Boston, Massachusetts, US
Deadline: 2 March 2020
More information: https://papers.aarweb.org/pu/comparative-approaches-religion-and-violence-unit
Post-Doctoral
Boundary Breaking: Exploring the Ecclesial Implications of Sex Abuse within the Catholic Church
Durham University, UK
Deadline: 11 March 2020
More information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BYP089/postdoctoral-research-associate-in-catholic-studies
Events
Religion and Victorian Popular Fiction and Culture Study Day
9 May 2020. University of Sheffield, UK
More information: https://victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/forthcoming-study-days/