2015
CODESRIA’s African Diaspora Support to African Universities Program
CODESRIA’s African Diaspora Support to African Universities Program: Call for applications for visiting professorships in the humanities and social sciences
Under its newly launched African Diaspora Support to African Universities program, the Council for the Development of Social Science research in Africa (CODESRIA), is pleased to invite interested African scholars in the Diaspora to submit proposals for visiting professorships to African Universities.
Deadline: August 31st. 2015
2015
Ilorin Journal of Religious Studies 5, 1 (2015)
The open access Ilorin Journal of Religious Studies 5, 1 (2015) has just been published.
2015
AAR Collaborative International Research Grants 2015
The American Academy of Religion, a member of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), is pleased to announce the Collaborative International Research Grants competition. This initiative is intended to support generative research collaborations between and among scholars located in different geographical regions who wish to pursue focused, joint projects in any area of the study of religion. Applications for awards ranging from $500 to $5000 will be reviewed by the AAR’s International Connections Committee (ICC).
Application Deadline: October 1
2015
Spirit and Sentiment: Affective Trajectories of Religious Being in Urban Africa; International Conference, Free University, Berlin, Germany, 28-30 May 2015
Call for Papers: Spirit and Sentiment: Affective Trajectories of Religious Being in Urban Africa; International Conference of the Research Network on Religion, AIDS and Social Transformation in Africa (RASTA), Free University, Berlin, Germany, 28-30 May 2015
2015
Obituary: Dr. Karen McCarthy Brown
Karen McCarthy Brown died on March 4, 2015. She was professor emerita of the anthropology and sociology of religion at Drew University, where she taught from 1976 until her retirement in 2009. She was the first tenured woman on the Theological School faculty, and the first woman to achieve the rank of full professor. Brown was a tireless advocate to increase racial, ethnic and national diversity among the Theological School faculty as well as to achieve gender parity in the faculty.
