Welcome to another big edition of the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week you will find eight conference call for papers, two post-doctoral fellowship, two journal call for papers, two event, five job, and two summer program opportunities.
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Conference Calls for Papers
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
Sociology of Religion program Unit of the American Academy of Religion
2020 SBL and AAR Annual Meetings
21-24 November 2020. Boston, Massachusetts, US
Deadline for proposals: 2 March 2020
More information: https://papers.aarweb.org/content/general-call-proposals-instructions
Perception and Reception of Persia research unit
3-6 August 2020. EABS, Wuppertal, Germany
Deadline: 20 February 2020
More information: https://www.eabs.net/EABS/Research-Units/Research_Units/Research_Units_2020/Perceptions_and_Receptions_of_Persia.aspx
12th Annual International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage (IRTP) Conference
24-27 June 2020. Braga, Portugal.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 Feb 2020
More information: http://irtp.co.uk/call-for-papers/
Worship and the Megachurch: Australasia and Beyond
18-10 September 2020. Melbourne, Australia
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2020
More information: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/ptr/departments/theologyandreligion/events/2020/australasia-and-beyond.aspx
Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy
3rd ANU Religion Conference
8-10 December 2020. Canberra, Australia
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2020
More information: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/religion-and-migration-culture-and-policy-0
Spiritual Abuse: coercive control in religious contexts
4-5 September 2020. University of Chester, UK
Deadline: 31 March 2020
More information: www1.chester.ac.uk/trs/research/conference/spiritual-abuse-coercive-control-in-religions
Imagining the World: Mythology in Human Cultures in a Comparative Perspective
22-25 June 2020. Coimbra, Portugal
Deadline for proposals: 15 March 2020
More information: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccah
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Ikerbasque Research Fellows
The Basque Foundation for Science, Spain
Deadline: 24 March 2020
More information: https://calls.ikerbasque.net/?_mrMailingList=138&_mrSubscriber=13214&utm_source=mailing138&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=RF2020+int
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship 2020
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Deadline: 31 March 2020
More information: https://www.ntu.edu.sg/tracs/ppf/Pages/home_PPF.aspx
Journal Call for Papers
Islamic and Muslim Studies in Australia
Special issues of Religions
Deadline: 31 May 2020
More information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Australia_muslim
Religion & Ecology
Special issue of Religions
Deadline: 31 May 2020
More information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/religion_climate
Events
Place, Space and Religious Identity
17-18 February 2020. Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia
More information: https://www.acu.edu.au/about-acu/events/2020/february/place-space-and-religious-identity
BSA Socrel Chair’s Response Day: Teaching Religion
20 March 2020. University of Nottingham, UK
More information: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/bsa-socrel-chair-s-response-day-teaching-religion/
Jobs
Lecturer in Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies
Australian National University
Deadline: 2 March 2020
More information: https://socioloxy.com/lecturer-in-sociology-of-islam-and-muslim-societies%2ci6248.html
Research and Outreach Associate (Fixed Term)
Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University, UK
Deadline: 19 April 2020
More information: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/24492/
Research Associate. Islamic Art (Fixed Term)
Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University, UK
Deadline: 19 April 2020
More information: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/24783/
University Lecturer in Judaism and Diaspora Studies
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), the Netherlands
Deadline: 7 March 2020
More information: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2020/q1/20-045-6702-university-lecturer-in-judaism-and-diaspora-studies
University Lecturer in the Cultural History of Christianity
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), the Netherlands
Deadline: 7 March 2020
More information: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2020/q1/20-042-6742-university-lecturer-in-the-cultural-history-of-christianity
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
On the Footsteps of Jesus: History and Archeology
6-12 July 2020. European University of Rome, Italy
Deadline: 31 May 2020
More information: https://www.universitaeuropeadiroma.it/internazionale/#tab_summer-schools