April 2024 Events and Opportunities

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

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Calls for Papers              

• 2024 Black Muslim Psychology Conference "Longing for Home: A Place Where A Soul Can Rest." (Deadline: April 26, 2024)

• Universty of Waterloo's The Conrad Grebel Review "Decolonizing Mind & Practice: A Lifelong Process" (Deadline: April 30, 2024)

• Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference (Deadline: May 2, 2024)

• The Orthodox Canon Law Society of North America (OCLSNA) Annual Conference (Deadline: May 31, 2024)

• International Journal on Responsibility (IJR): Climate Change, Religion and Responsibility (Deadline: June 30, 2024) 

• Interdisciplinary Journal of Islamic Studies first issue: "Qur’anic Studies in the West: Perils, Pitfalls and Prospects" (Deadline: July 1, 2024)

• Religions, "Religion and Politics: Historical Developments and Contemporary Transformations" (Deadline: August 1, 2024)

• University of Notre Dame: Conference on the History of Women Religious: Lives and Archives (Deadline: August 15, 2024)

• Religions, "Re-Imagining the Woman’s “Curse”: Redemptive Readings of Genesis 3:16" (Deadline: September 1, 2024)

• Cushwa Center 50th Anniversary Conference: "Catholic Modernity in the Americas: Land, Culture, Politics" (Deadline: September 15, 2024) 

• Religions, "Situating Religious Cognition" (Deadline: October 1, 2024)

• IAHR 2025 World Congress: "OUT OF EUROPE: Studying Religion(s) in Interconnected Worlds" (Deadline: December 1, 2024)

• Topical Issues, Open Theology vol. 2024 (Ongoing)

• Bloomsbury Book Series | Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity - Bloomsbury has launched a 25-volume series on lived Christianity in the world's great cities (13 have been contracted so far). Prospective authors are invited to submit a proposal for a major world city that you have expertise in. All proposals are peer-reviewed. (Ongoing)

Awards, Fellowships, Grants, and Further Scholarship    

• ACLS Fellowships (Various deadlines)       

• Judith Plaskow Travel Grant: awarded annually to a student or independent scholar who is scheduled to present a paper centrally informed by and/or contributing to feminist approaches to the study of religion at the November Annual Meeting. (Deadline: April 23, 2024)

• Annual Meeting Travel Grants: awarded to AAR members who demonstrate both financial need and a desire to participate in the November Annual Meeting. (Deadline: April 23, 2024)

• Religion and the Arts Travel Grant: awarded annually to a graduate student studying religion and the arts who is without institutional support to attend the November Annual Meeting. (Deadline: April 23, 2024)

•  Boniuk Institute Senior Scholar Award (Deadline: May 20, 2024)

• St. Louis Catholic Archives Visiting Researcher Grant: Center for Research on Global Catholicism (CRGC) (Deadline for Summer/Fall: May 1 | Deadline for Winter/Spring: August 15) 

Conferences and Events

• Newberry "Religion and Culture in the Americas" Seminars (Various Dates)

• WebinAAR: AAR's 2024 Student Research Grant Recipients (April 2, 2024)

• AAR Mid-Atlantic Region: Hybrid Pedagogy Workshop (April 5, 2024)

• Beyond the Professoriate webinar: Overqualified or Underqualified? How PhDs can communicate their value to employers (April 10, 2024)

• AAR Upper Midwest Regional Meeting (April 12-13, 2024)

• WebinAAR: Retooling Graduate Education in the Study of Religion (April 16, 2024)

• Institute for Signifying Scriptures 20th Anniversary Meeting (April 11-13, 2024)

• Beyond the Professoriate webinar: How to Use This Summer to Prepare for Your Faculty Job Search (April 24, 2024)

• Forum on Architecture, Spirituality, and Culture 14th Annual Meeting (June 5-9, 2024) 

Contents

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

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