Thank you for reading this week’s the Religious Studies Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find three fellowships, two professorships, four events, and one conference call for papers.
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Fellowships
Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Associates in Interactive Histories- Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Institute for Advanced Study and University of Bern, Switzerland
Deadline: 31 March 2022
Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellows Program
University of Virginia, US
Deadline: 1 February 2022
More information: https://graduate.as.virginia.edu/rising-scholars
“Race, Religion and American Judaism: Cross-Disciplinary Research, Public Scholarship and Curriculum Development.” Research Fellows
The Center for Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Deadline: 21 February 2022
More information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFXAmByFr6c3YDejYszKn4nroQ0fRiWUFpjLeg7aTB6sS5yA/viewform
Professorships
Tenure-track assistant professor in Late Medieval/Early Modern Middle East/ Islamic History
Department of History and Archaeology
Deadline: 1 February 2022
More information: https://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/Pages/academic-employment.aspx#Histarc_1
Part-time Non-tenure track Religious studies Instructor
Religious Studies Department
Occidental College, US
Deadline: 20 February 2022
More information: https://www.oxy.edu/sites/default/files/assets/HR/Faculty/pt_ntt_religious_studies_instructor_fall_2022.pdf
Events
Enlivening the Goddess and Feeding the Dead with Amy Allocco
9 February 2022, online
More information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-allocco-tickets-159687332109?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Religions & Animal & Food Justice
Recorded for on-demand viewing
More information: https://raac.iupui.edu/programs/events/religion-and/religion-animal-and-food-justice/
Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit Book Talk
2 February 2022, online
More information: https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYodO2orTIrGNXt79iH1ycfUMnQewYQLI68
The Hermeneutics of Islamic Legal Authority Conference
10-11 February 2022, online
More information: https://arabic.georgetown.edu/hermeneutics/#
Conference Calls for Papers
Freethought in the Long Nineteenth Century: New Perspectives
9-10 September 2022. Queen Mary University of London, UK
Deadline: 1 March 2022
More information: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/events/freethought/