Welcome to this week’s Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find two PhD positions, one event, and one prize opportunity.
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PhD Positions
Call for applications Doctoral position History of religion
Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany
Deadline: 30 April 2020
More information (PDF)
PhD scholarship in Buddhist Studies
Edinburgh Buddhist Studies network, University of Edinburgh, UK
Deadline: 14 June 2020
More information: https://www.ed.ac.uk/buddhist-studies/study/khyentse-foundation-phd-scholarship
Events
Rethinking Personhood Beyond the Human: An Online Counterpoint Conversation on Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day
22 April 2020, 5:00–7:00 p.m. North American Eastern Daylight Time (New York City)
22 April 2020, 11:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m. Central European Daylight Time (Berlin)
23 April 2020, 7:00–9:00 a.m. Australian Eastern Standard Time (Sydney)
More information: https://www.counterpointknowledge.org/rethinking-personhood-beyond-the-human-an-online-counterpoint-conversation/
Prizes
Donner Institute Prize for Outstanding Research into Religion 2020
Deadline: 31 May 2020
More information: https://www.donnerinstitute.fi/en/current-3/nominate-a-candidate-for-the-2020-donner-research-prize/