April 2022 Events and Opportunities

Below, find upcoming events and open calls for papers, grants, fellowships, and more. 

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Calls for Papers  

• Open Theology, "Cultural Trauma and the Hebrew Bible" (Deadline: March 31, 2022)

• Understanding the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Violence in the Public Imagination (Deadline: April 1, 2022)

• Dark Academia: Definitions, Theories, and Prospects (Deadline: April 1, 2022)

• Buddhist Philosophy of Religion Panel at the European Academy of Religion (Deadline: April 3, 2022)

• Open Theology, "After the Theological Turn: Essays in (New) Continental Philosophical Theology" (Deadline: April 15, 2022)

• 30 years after Richard M. Frank: Al-Ghazali and Avicenna in Post-Classical Islam (Deadline: April 15, 2022)

• Hope and Time in Theology and Religion Journal of the Oxford Graduate Theological Society (Deadline: April 24, 2022)

•  The Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (Deadline: April 30, 2022)

• Open Theology, "Death and Religion" (Deadline: April 30, 2022)

• Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, "Conceptualizing Heterodox Palaeoscience" (Deadline: May 6, 2022)

• Death and Dying in East Asia (Deadline: May 31, 2022)

• The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JSSR) invites submissions for its W.E.B. Du Bois Special Issue on the intersection of religion and social inequality in the contemporary world. (Deadline: June 1, 2022)

• CULTURAL TRAUMA AND THE HEBREW BIBLE (second call) (Deadline June 15, 2022)

• COVID-19, Mental Health, and Religious–Spiritual Coping Research in East Asia (Deadline: June 15, 2022)

• Political Theology and the State of Exception: Critical readings on the centenary of Political Theology & Roman Catholicism and Political Form by Carl Schmitt (Deadline: June 30, 2022)

• ARC Journal of the School of Religious Studies (McGill) invites submissions that engage with the theme of "Looking Backward – Looking Forward." (Deadline: August 31, 2022) 
  

Fellowships, Grants, and Further Scholarship  

• AAR Certificate in Inclusive Pedagogy Program (Webinars throughout 2022)

• The ICJS inaugural Faculty Seminar will bring together scholars working in universities and seminaries who research and/or teach in Interreligious Studies or Genocide Studies. Seminar participants will examine encounters between these two areas of study and consider how methodological approaches in both fields can challenge and enrich one another in our teaching and scholarship. (Deadline: April 8, 2022)

• SSRC Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Fellowship invites proposals for research at the intersection of religion, spirituality, and democracy in the United States. The fellowships offer research support over a period of up to 12 months to doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy and to postdoctoral researchers within five years of their PhD. (Deadline: April 14, 2022)

• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications to the 2022 Annual Faculty Seminar on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust which will examine the multifaceted encounters between Black American Christians and Jews in both the United States and Europe from the 1920s to the present.(Deadline: April 18, 2022)

• Membership in the Fellowship for Protestant Ethics - The Fellowship for Protestant Ethics is a diverse community of early-career scholars who are critically appreciative of the Protestant tradition(s) of ethical reflection and radically committed to the church's social witness. To be eligible for membership, applicants must be between qualifying examinations (having finished comprehensive/qualifying exams by the time of the meeting) and tenure, and be willing to participate in the annual symposium (when meeting together is possible). (Deadline: May 1, 2022)

• Historical Society of the Episcopal Church Grants - HSEC invites applications for regular grants and The Robert W. Prichard Prize, which recognizes the best Ph.D., Th.D., or D.Phil. dissertation that considers the history of the Episcopal Church as well as the Anglican church in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Recipients are expected to make an appropriate submission to the Society’s journal, Anglican and Episcopal History. (Deadline: May 1, 2022)

• AAR Regional Development Grants - Regional Development Grants provide funds for special projects within the regions that promise to benefit the scholarly and professional life of AAR members and do the work of the AAR in the regions. (Deadline: July 1, 2022)

Awards  

• The Katie Geneva Cannon Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes the importance of teaching and honors outstanding teaching in the field. (Deadline: August 1, 2022)

Events

• April 1-2, 2022 | Virtual Conference - Gender, Sexual, and Racial Justice Conference: Strategizing for Flourishing Futures
• April 1-3, 2022 | Upper Midwest Regional Meeting
• April 8, 2022 | 12:00 p.m. ET - Webinar: What Mistake Do PhDs Make the Most in Their Job Search? 
• April 8, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. ET | In-person and livestream - Parting the Waters Beneath the Cross: Sacred Music Honoring Black Women Preachers
• April 13, 2022 | 12:00 p.m. ET - Webinar: How to Get Started on LinkedIn

Contents

• Calls for Papers
• Fellowships, Grants, and Further Scholarship
• Awards
• Events

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