Welcome to this week’s Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! You will find one student job, two book calls for submissions, three faculty jobs, three events, one fellowship, four conference calls for submissions, one network, and one journal call for submissions.
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Student Jobs
Self-Help – Religious Studies Clerical/Research Assistant
Position for Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Academic Year
Book Calls for Submissions
Religion in the West: Call for Submissions
Spring 2023 Publication by the Eiteljorg Museum
Deadline: 1 September 2021
More information: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ReligionPublication
Call for Papers: Theology and the Avett Brothers
Theology and Pop Culture Series
Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2021
More information: https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2021/06/23/call-for-papers-theology-and-the-avett-brothers/
Faculty Jobs
Assistant Professor of Digital Religion(s)
Faculty of Theology of the University of Zurich, Switzerland
Deadline: 18 August 2021
Assistant Professor – Sanskrit Studies – South and Southeast Asian Studies
University of California, Berkley, US
Deadline: 15 September 2021
More information: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03070
Assistant Professor, US in the World
Department of History, Cornell University, US
Deadline: 10 September 2021
More information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/19014
Events
Centering BIPOC Communities in Dharma Practice
2021 Buddhism and Race Speaker Series
9 August 2021. Online
More information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/centering-bipoc-communities-in-dharma-practice-tickets-162988851041
East Asian Buddhist Worldmaking International Conference
14-16 August 2021. Online
More information: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wld–oqDgiH9JUcr0OeqFBvBfrPoN3eu_4
Advancing Daoism: Epigraphic and Archeological Materials as Sources for Daoist Lived Religion
31 July 2021. Online
More information: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/global-daoist-studies-forum/2021/07/23/daoist-archeology/
Fellowships
Research Fellow
School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, UK
Deadline: 1 August 2021
More information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CHN871/research-fellow
Conference Calls for Submissions
Religion, Politics, Uncertainty: Shifting Boundaries
ISA RC-22 mid term conference
11-14 November 2021 in Vilnius, Lithuania as hybrid event (live and virtual)
Deadline for proposals: 1 September 2021
More information: https://www.isarc-22vilnius.com/
“Manifestos for Buddhist Studies” session
2021 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religions
Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2021
More information: http://buddhiststudiesmanifesto.net/
Non-Cloistered Religious Women: Between World and Church
RSA conference
1 March – 2 April 2021. Dublin, Ireland
Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2021
More information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7947462/cfp-rsa-2022-non-cloistered-religious-women-between-world-and
International Queer Buddhist Conference
Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2021
More information: https://iqbc.org/
Networks
Call for participants – Islamic Arts in Australia and Aotearoa / NZ
Deadline for Applications: 15 August 2021
More information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7636/discussions/7944960/call-participants-islamic-arts-australia-and-aotearoa-nz
Journal Call for Submissions
Southern Cultures
More information: https://southerncultures.submittable.com/Submit