Welcome to the latest RSP opportunities digest, where you will find details of five conferences, a seminar series, a journal call for papers, and doctoral studentships.
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Conferences
Healing Charms and Medicine
6–8 April 2018, Harvard University, USA
Deadline: 10 October 2017
Worldviews in World View: Particularizing Secularism, Secularity and Nonreligion
NSRN Conference, King’s College, London
5–6 July 2018, Deadline: 27 October 2017
Natural disasters and the Apocalypse (1500-to present)
Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM)
September 13-14, 2018. Inside the Big Top at the Panacea Museum Gardens, Bedford, United Kingdom
Deadline: 31 March 2018
Un(b)locking Religion: Studying Religion in Today’s Central and Eastern Europe
The 13th Conference of International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association & Special Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR)
24–26 May 2018, University of Szeged, Hungary
Deadline: 1 December 2017
Further Information: http://www.isorecea.net/
Revisiting Religion, Politics, and the State in Africa and the African Diaspora
8th African Association for the Study of Religions Conference in Africa
1-4 August 2018, The University of Zambia and Justo Mwale University, Lusaka, Zambia
Deadline: 31 January 2018
Seminars
Sanskrit Reading Room at SOAS, London
Journals
The Journal of Festive Studies
Deadline: 1 November 2017
Studentships
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships with the British Library
Deadline: 24 November 2017
More information: https://www.bl.uk/news/2017/september/cdp-call-2017