Welcome to the first RSP opportunities digest of 2018 – a jam-packed one due to the festive break – where you will find details of eight conference/conference panel calls for papers, a public lecture, two doctoral studentships, three journal calls for papers, and two seminars/seminar series. This week’s opportunities digest is sponsored by the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, whose advert for their 2018 conference season kicks off the digest, and who have been building a searchable database of millenarian movements with INFORM, available here: https://censamm.org/resources/profiles
Chris has been filling in the opps digest role since Jane Skjoldli stepped down in September 2017 after 3 years of fantastic service. Next week, however, we welcome Ella Bock to the role – and we’re looking forward to the digest continuing and developing under her leadership. Thanks Ella!
Thank also to everyone who has signed up to support the RSP thus far through our Patreon–and PayPal options. We are aiming for 100 patrons (currently 17) to fund planned developments over the coming year. See our donations page for details of how you can sign up for a regular subscription, leave a one-off donation, advertise with us, or use our Amazon links. Particularly with the ‘festive season’ coming up, it couldn’t be easier to be part of the solution and not the problem!
Conferences
CenSAMM: AI and Apocalypse
5–6 April 2018. Inside the Big Top at the Panacea Museum gardens, Bedford, UK
Extended deadline: 16 February 2018
More information: https://censamm.org/conferences/artificial-intelligence-and-apocalypse
Formatting Non-religion in Late Modern Society – Institutional and Legal Perspective
26–27 September 2018, University of Oslo, Norway
Deadline: 28 February 2018
More information: https://non-religion.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en
Ernst Bloch and the Marxist Legacy
16–17 June 2018, Warsaw, Poland
Deadline: 31 March 2018
Religions and Identities in the European Migration Crisis
30 August–1 September 2018, Turin, Italy
Deadline: 31 January 2018
Experiencing the Sacred between Religion and Spirituality
6–9 June 2018, Bergamo, Italy
Deadline: 22 January 2018
Panel: Lived Ancient Religion in North Africa
European Association of Archaeologists 24th Annual Meeting,
5–8 September 2018, Barcelona
Deadline: 15 February 2018
Religion and Transnational Religious Discourses: Globality Construction and Resistance
21–22 June 2018, Rome, Italy
Deadline: 28 February 2018
Hidden Charms 2
21 April 2018, The Medieval Hall, Cathedral Close, Salisbury
Full details and the ability to book your tickets online are available at: http://www.apotropaios.co.uk/conference-2018.html
Public Lecture
Is God Really Dead? Why Belief Matters
A Celebratory Lecture by Professor Eileen Barker
12 February 2018, London School of Economics, UK
Studentships
AHRC Doctoral Studentships
University of Leeds, UK
Deadline: 24 January 2018
Doctoral Studentship, Austrian Stigmatics
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Deadline: 15 February 2018
More information: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/ap/2018bapflwef004/
Journal Special Issues
Open Theology
Rethinking Reformation
Deadline: 10 May 2018
Recognizing Encounters with Ultimacy Across Religious Boundaries
Deadline: 28 February 2018
Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions
Regular issue
Deadline: 1 March 2018
Seminars
Sanskrit Reading Room Series
SOAS, London, UK
17 January – 30 May 2018
Contemporary Sikhism
9 March 2018, Aston University, Birmingham, UK