2015
AASR Ghana Conference: Abstract submission extended to 31 December 2015
The AASR Conference in Ghana will take place at the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, from 26-29 July 2016. The theme is: ‘Religion, Sexuality, and Identity in Africa and the African Diaspora’.
NOTE: the submission of abstracts has been extended to 31 December 2015. For more information, see: Ghana 2016
2015
ACLS African Humanities Program competition 2015-16
ACLS African Humanities Program competition
in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda, 2015-16
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for:
• Dissertation-completion fellowships in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda
• Early-career postdoctoral fellowships in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa
Stipends are $10,000 for dissertation-completion Fellows and $17,000 for postdoctoral Fellows, plus an additional $1,000 per Fellow for books and media at both award levels. Fellowships release recipients from teaching and other duties for an academic year to permit full-time research and writing. (They may be used to “buy time.”) Recipients of both kinds of fellowship are also eligible for further support in the form of a residency at a participating research center in Africa for a sustained period of writing. Approximately forty fellowships will be awarded annually in all five countries combined. Awards will be decided by an international committee of distinguished scholars in the humanities.
For further details visit: https://www.acls.org/programs/ahp/, or http://www.facebook.com/ACLS.AH
Application Deadline: 2 November 2015
2015
37th ASRSA congress, University of Johannesburg, 26-28 October 2015: Call for Papaers
The Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa (ASRSA) in collaboration with the Department of Religion Studies at the University of Johannesburg is pleased to announce the “Call for Submissions” for the 37th ASRSA Congress. This year’s congress will be held at the University of Johannesburg, Kingsway Campus. The theme identified for this year’s congress is “Religious Violence and / or Violence in the Name of Religion”.
PDF: (ASRSA 2015 Call for Papers+27)
For further information please contact:
Denzil Chetty (ASRSA Secretary)
Email: chettd@unisa.ac.za
Tel: (+27) 012 429 4055 (office hours) / 074 182 5099
2015
A fulltime salaried PhD position: Secularism, religion and ‘tradition’ in Dutch sexual health approaches, Groningen University/ Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain
A fulltime salaried PhD position: Secularism, religion and ‘tradition’ in Dutch sexual health approaches, based at the department of comparative religion, Groningen University/ Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain. It is one of two 2 fulltime salaried PhD positions in the program “Sexuality, Religion and Secularism. Cultural encounters in the African Diaspora and the Netherlands”, carried out in cooperation between Groningen University and the University of Amsterdam, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Deadline for applications for both positions: October 5, 2015
For more information on the positions and how to apply, follow the hyperlinks above. Application is only possible via the respective websites, applications via e-mail are not admissible. For more information about the research program, contact k.e.knibbe@rug.nl
2015
ACLS African Humanities Prograam: Competition for dissertation completion fellowships and early career postdoctoral fellowships 2015-2016
ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) announces competition for dissertation completion fellowships in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda, and early career postdoctoral fellowships in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa.
Application Deadline: 2 November 2015
Application forms and instructions for the 2015-2016 competition are available at www.acls.org/programs/ahp or may be requested by email at ahp@acls.org.
