2017
AAR African Religions Group, CfP 2017
The Call for Papers of the African Religions Group for the upcoming 2017 AAR Annual Meeting has now been published.
Deadline: 1 March
2016
Institutions: Creativity and Resilience in Africa; CfP, 60th annual ASA meeting, Chicago, 16-18 November 2017
The 2017 annual meeting of the African Studies Association marks the 60th anniversary of the ASA. The association is responsible, in part, for institutionalizing the study of Africa in the United States, advocating for informed policy, and building dialogue and exchange with Africa-based scholars and institutions. The 60th anniversary offers a moment for critical reflection on what and who we are as an institution.
DEADLINE TO RECEIVE PROPOSALS: March 15, 2017
2016
Religion and Time: Call for Papers, SAR Biennial Conference, May 15-17, 2017, New Orleans
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion (a section of the American Anthropological Association) will hold its next meeting at New Orleans, Louisiana from May 15 to May 17, 2017. The theme of the meeting will be “Religion and Time”.
2016
Conference: Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (10-11 November 2016)
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSOR) will be hosting an international conference on 10-11 November 2016. The theme is:
Compassion, Social Engagement, and Discontent: Believing and the Politics of Belonging in Europe Today
This LUCSoR conference aims to investigate forms and elements of religion in public settings and technologies of belonging in Europe today by taking compassion as a locus. We approach compassion not primarily as an emotion but as a social relation. Compassion may lead to social engagement, but also to the desire not to connect, to refuse engagement, or to turn away.
The conference is intended for scholars of religion of various disciplinary backgrounds interested in exploring new ways of studying religion in public settings.
The conference is free and open to all. Please register before 1 November 2016. For a tentative programme, see the conference website.
The papers start from small stories or vignettes of:
1. Compassion and social engagement of religious community groups and individuals
These may vary from local-based initiatives of informal care and volunteer aid, to more institutionalized forms of aid provided by religious community groups, such as faith-based refugee work and social service agencies caring for the poor and homeless. The vignettes provide a window into forms and elements of religion today and the politics of belonging: who deserves compassion, who is excluded or undeserving, and what does the response toward suffering entail?
2. Discontent and anxiety about multiculturalism in everyday life
This category of papers engages with a relatively under-researched topic: the discontent of the “angry” citizen, who feels ignored by politicians, who, unlike the elites in their ivory tower, experiences daily what it means to live in a multicultural society, and who may express her- or himself in riotous protests against the resettlement of refugees. What values underlie their discontent? What makes them reject certain forms of compassionate action and choose others?
The focus of the conference is Europe today, but other times and other places also receive attention.
2016
Religion, Gender and Sexualities One-Day Conference
Religion, Gender and Sexualities One-Day Conference, Friday 1st July 2016, 10.00-16.30, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Deadline for abstracts: May 27th 2016. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Dr Sarah-Jane Page (s.page1@aston.ac.uk) and Dr Katy Pilcher (k.pilcher@aston.ac.uk).
