February 2024 Events and Opportunities

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

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Calls for Papers            

• Women, Human Rights, and Religion Inaugural Conference (Deadline: February 5, 2024) 

• Jews in the Americas: A Hybrid Interdisciplinary Conference (Deadline: February 29, 2024)

•  The Royal Museum of Mariemont and the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies of Ghent University (Belgium): International Conference - Diverse Lives: Narratives of Śākyamuni Buddha in Text and Image (Deadline: February 29, 2024)

• Georgetown University, Coventry University, Oxford University, St Stephen's House present: Cognitive Representations in Religion Conference (Deadline: March 1, 2024)

• Yale Journal of Music & Religion, "The Power of Timbre in Religion" (Deadline: March 15, 2024)

• ASIAN FORUM 2024: Self-Cultivation in East Asian Martial Arts (Deadline: March 31, 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, "Re-Imagining the Woman’s “Curse”: Redemptive Readings of Genesis 3:16" (Deadline: September 1, 2024)

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

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

Fellowships, Grants, and Further Scholarship    

• ACLS Fellowships (Various deadlines)     

• USHMM In-Person Congregational Leaders Workshop: Beyond Horror and Shame: Legacies of the Holocaust for Faith Communities and the Future (Deadline: February 23, 2024) 

• McGovern Center Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion and Medicine/Health (Deadline: March 1, 2024)

• ICJS Faculty Seminar 2024: Interreligious Perspectives on Death and Dying (Deadline: March 15, 2024) 

• 12th Annual ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Conference: Encounters with Judeo-Spanish Culture in the MENA and Beyond (March 15, 2024) 

Conferences and Events

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

• USC Levan Institute for the Humanities "Book Chat": Diane Winston, Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision (University of Chicago Press, 2023) (February 5, 2024) 

• Resilience, Recovery, Repair Online Speaker Series: Funded by a grant from the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI), Resilience, Recovery, Repair will offer insight into the historical and contemporary contexts that shape the March 16, 2024 May We Gather pilgrimage in Antioch, California. The series will feature a diverse range of Buddhist leaders and spiritual friends in a ceremony of commemoration and healing. (January 24, 2024–February 22, 2024)

• May We Gather 2024: A National Buddhist Pilgrimage for Asian American Ancestors (March 16, 2024) 

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