| Thank you for those who were part of the AASR Conference this year! A shout out to the amazing 85 delegates (and especially those who made special trips from the UK, New Zealand and Nepal) who engaged with discussions across all sessions. A special mention to Dr Kathleen McPhillips and team who made all this possible, with thanks to the University of Newcastle for hosting. If you missed the conference, here are snapshots of the conference (and papers presented) captured on Twitter. Also, do consider these special call for papers as part of our conference:Call for manuscripts: special issue on ‘Religion and Violence’ on the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion Call for manuscripts: special issue on ‘Religion, Gender and Violence’ on the Religion and Gender Journal |
| Call for Papers: Rethinking Media, Religion and Secularities. Conference of the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture Conference location: Sigtuna Foundation, Sigtuna, Sweden. Conference dates: 4-7 of August 2020. Deadline for Paper proposals: 6 December 2019. More info. International Communication Association Preconference on Intersectional Imaginaries in Media, Religion & Gender, Gold Coast, Australia, May 2020. Deadline extended 14 Jan 2020. More info. The XXII Quinquennial World Congress of the IAHR, hosted by the New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions, will take place at the University of Otago, in Dunedin, New Zealand from 23-29 August 2020. Submission deadline 31 December 2019. More info + latest newsletter Navigating the non/confessional in university Islamic studies. University of Birmingham. 20-22 April 2020. Submission deadline 17 January 2020. More info. “Religion and the urban, natural and virtual environments”, Bi-Annual Conference of the ESA RN34- Sociology of Religion, Groningen (Netherlands), 26-28 August 2020. Abstract deadline 31 January 2020. More info. PublicationsCall for Essays: Handbook on Religion and the Body. Deadline 15 December 2019. More info. Call for Papers on Digital Visibilities of the Religious. Deadline 15 January 2020. More info. Call for papers on Religion & Ecology for a special issue of Religions. Deadline 31 May 2020. |
| Funding OpportunitiesCall for proposals: The Religion and Sexual Abuse Project. Deadline 1 February 2020. More info. |
| Postgrad/ECR Opportunities 4 PhD scholarships at the University of Queensland, Atlas of Religion Project Postdoc positions at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona State University Postdoc Fellowship, The Center for Religion and the Human (CRH) at Indiana University Call for Papers from Sociology of Religion for Advanced Graduate Students Call for Applications: Workshop “Public Scholarship of Religion in an Age of Hypermediation” Summer School on Religion and Cultural Change Researcher, Center for Religious Studies (FBK-ISR), Trento, Italy Also if you’re on Facebook, we have a postgrad page so do join us 🙂 |
| Job Opportunities Temp Full-time Lectureship (Ethnicity, Ethnic Politics, the Sociology of Religion, Multiculturalism) |