Welcome to another week of Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find four journal call for papers, five conference calls for papers, three jobs, nine events & workshops, one award, three fellowships, and one grant.
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Journal Call for Papers
Religion and Poverty
Humanities and Social Sciences Communication
Springer Nature
Rolling acceptance until September 2021
More information: https://www.nature.com/palcomms/calls-for-papers#religion-poverty
What Future for the Philosophy of Religion?
Humanities and Social Sciences Communication
Springer Nature
Rolling acceptance until September 2021
More information: https://www.nature.com/palcomms/calls-for-papers#phil-of-religion
Religion in American Literature
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference
11-14 November 2021
Deadline: 30 June 2021
More information: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/05/06/extended-deadline-religion-in-american-literature
“Female Mystics and the Divine Feminine in the Global Sufi Experience”
Special Issue of Religions
Deadline: 1 July 2021
More information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Female_Experience
Conference Calls for Papers
“Enshrining the Past: Religion and Heritage-Making in a Secular Age”
27-29 October 2021. Leipzig University, Germany
Deadline for Abstract: 13 June 2021
More information: https://www.multiple-secularities.de/events/event/enshrining-the-past-religion-and-heritage-making-in-a-secular-age/
46th Annual Conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion on ‘Hope’
9-10 December 2021, online
Deadline: 31 Oct 2021
More information: https://www.aasr.org.au/2021-online-conference
Intellectual Authority and its Changing Infrastructures in North American and Australian Christianity, 1960s-2010s
ACU and Deakin University
29-30 July 2021, online
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 May 2021
More information: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/intellectual-authority-and-its-changing-infrastructures-tickets-147450932709
“The Future of Islam and Humanity: Local and Global Challenges and Opportunities”
Australian Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (AAIMS)
14-16 September 2021, online
Deadline for proposals: 1 June 2021
More information: https://www.aaims.org.au/aaims-conference-2021/
‘Aotearoa Spirit’
New Zealand Association for the Study of Religion Conference
29-30 November 2021, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Deadline for Abstracts: 3 September 2021
More information: https://vuw.eventsair.com/nzasr2021registrations/nzasr2021registrationpage/Site/Register
Jobs
Assistant Teaching Professor of Religion
Worchester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, US
Rolling deadline until filled
More information: https://wpi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WPI_External_Career_Site/job/Worcester/Assistant-Teaching-Professor-of-Religion_R0001315
Deputy Director, Contemplative Studies Centre
University of Melbourne, Australia
Deadline: 10 June 2021
More information: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/904816/deputy-director-contemplative-studies-centre
Events and Workshops
‘A Manly Swot: Ezra’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats’
Ethel M. Wood Lecture by Prof. Charlotte Hempel
26 May 2021, online
More information: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ethel-m.-wood-lecture-by-prof.-charlotte-hempel
Pre-modern Chinese Buddhist Texts: a translation workshop of readings from the Sinophone world
14 June 2021 – 16 June 2021, online
More information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/buddhiststudies/events/14jun2021-pre-modern-chinese-buddhist-texts–a-translation-workshop-of-readings-from-the-sinophone-w.html
National Graduate Student Workshop: Representing Belief
7-8 December 2021, online
Deadline (must be a Masters or PhD student): 30 Sep 2021
More information: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/national-graduate-student-workshop-representing-belief-0
Intersectional Imaginaries in Media, Religion and Gender
ICA 2021 Preconference Program
27 May 2021
More information: https://www.icahdq.org/page/ICA21PREPOSTCONF
“The Midwest at the Intersection of Past and Present”
Seventh Annual Midwestern History Conference
Panels of interest include:
- Jews and Indigenous Peoples: Their Working and Personal Relationships
- Religion
- Race and Religion in the Arab American Midwest
26-27 May 2021, online
More information: http://www.midwesternhistory.com/2021-conference
“Religious practice in the time of the pandemic – challenges and opportunities. On a survey among Berlin religious communities in 2020″
The benefits and harms of religion: pandemic talks at the Institute for Religious Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
28 May 2021, online
More information: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/termine/pandemie-gespraeche.html
“Buddhist perspectives on Corona / COVID-19. On the religious handling of the corona pandemic”
The benefits and harms of religion: pandemic talks at the Institute for Religious Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
4 June 2021, online
More information: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/termine/pandemie-gespraeche.html
Catholicism, Gender and Sexuality Symposium
8 June 2021, online
More information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/catholicism-gender-and-sexuality-symposium-tickets-156220294105
Decolonizing Buddhist Societies: An Old Tibetan Kingdom in New Local Sources
26 May 2021, online
More information: https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xw389alhSMOvTeiiWPX0Uw
Awards
Robert J. McNamara Student Paper Award
Association for the Sociology of Religion
Deadline: 8 June 2021
More information: https://www.sociologyofreligion.com/lectures-papers/robert-j-mcnamara-student-paper-award/
Fellowships
Black Muslim Experiences Research Fellowship
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
Deadline: 8 June 2021
More information: https://www.ispu.org/black-muslim-experiences-research-fellowship/
2021 BASR Teaching and Learning Fellowship
British Association for the Study of Religions
Deadline for applications/nominations: 1 June 2021
More information: https://basr.ac.uk/2021/05/12/2021-basr-teaching-and-learning-fellowship/
Selby Old Fellowship in Religious History of the Orthodox Christian Faith
The University of Sydney Fisher Library, Australia
Deadline: 5 June 2021
Grants
Regional Development Grants
American Academy of Religion
Deadline: 1 June 2021
More information: https://www.aarweb.org/AARMBR/Who-We-Are-/Grant-Programs-/Regional-Development-Grants.aspx
Volunteer Positions
Call for AAR/OUP Book Series Editor – Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
American Academy of Religion
Deadline: 15 June 2021
More information: https://www.aarweb.org/AARMBR/Publications-and-News-/Newsroom-/News-/2021/03/Call-for-Series-Editor-Reflection-and-Theory.aspx