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#CFP: SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE KYOTO SCHOOL 2026 (1-12 June 2026)

#CFP: SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE KYOTO SCHOOL 2026 (1-12 June 2026)

DESCRIPTION While major Western philosophical movements in the 20th century looked upon claims to absolute knowledge with deep suspicion, the Kyoto School never abandoned philosophy's sacred vocation to know the...

#CFP: Anthropology at the End of Worlds

#CFP: Anthropology at the End of Worlds

Anthropology at the End of Worlds Due February 23, 2026 Northeastern University will host “Anthropology at the End of Worlds” on March 27–28, 2026! The conference explores how anthropologists can...

#CFP: United Lutheran Seminary to Host “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026

#CFP: United Lutheran Seminary to Host “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026

United Lutheran Seminary to Host “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026

#CFP: NABPR Region-at-Large Call for Papers CTS/NABPR-RAL 2026 Meeting at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, May 28-31, 2026

#CFP: NABPR Region-at-Large Call for Papers CTS/NABPR-RAL 2026 Meeting at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, May 28-31, 2026

NABPR Region-at-Large Call for Papers CTS/NABPR-RAL 2026 Meeting Villanova University in Pennsylvania, May 28-31, 2026

#CFP: Knox College Undergraduate Religious Studies Conference 2025

#CFP: Knox College Undergraduate Religious Studies Conference 2025

Save the date! October 24-25, 2025 Knox College, Galesburg, IL —————————————————————-

#CFP: Seeking Chapters on Foucault's History of Sexuality, Power, & Knowledge; Proposals Due July 1, 2025

#CFP: Seeking Chapters on Foucault's History of Sexuality, Power, & Knowledge; Proposals Due July 1, 2025

Seeking chapters drawing on Foucault’s history of sexuality to analyze transgender themes in Indian film, television, and web series. We seek a diverse group of contributors from countries throughout the world. Chapters will be...

#CFP: Meeting at the Crossroads: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion

#CFP: Meeting at the Crossroads: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion

Laurent Pernot wrote, “Religion is intimately linked with words. Everyone knows that the spoken and written word plays an essential role in religion, as language is necessarily used to address...

#CFP: Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

#CFP: Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

CFP Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

#CFP: Reconfiguring Australia's Postcoloniality?

#CFP: Reconfiguring Australia's Postcoloniality?

JEASA - Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia - Special Issue on Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?

#CFP: Labor Network, Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA), Chicago, Nov. 20-23, 2025

#CFP: Labor Network, Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA), Chicago, Nov. 20-23, 2025

Conference Details Date: February 5, 2025 - March 12, 2025 Location: Illinois, United States Subject Fields: Labor History / Studies

Call for Applicants: Feinstein Center at Temple University

Call for Applicants: Feinstein Center at Temple University

The Feinstein Center at Temple University announces its annual summer fellowship to support research in the American Jewish experience. Predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars studying any area of American Jewish life are eligible...

#CFP: Redd Center Grants for Scholarship on the Intermountain West

#CFP: Redd Center Grants for Scholarship on the Intermountain West

The BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies annual awards and funding season is upon us! For 2025 there are multiple awards available for scholars, students, or organizations conducting research...

#CFP: Presbyterian Historical Society

#CFP: Presbyterian Historical Society

For 20 years, the Presbyterian Historical Society’s Research Fellowship Program has awarded annual research and travel grants to eligible scholars, students, and independent researchers in a broad range of fields including mission...

#CFP: The Society of Christian Philosophers' Work-in-Progress group

#CFP: The Society of Christian Philosophers' Work-in-Progress group

Deadlines Submission deadline: February 1, 2025 Conference date(s): February 14, 2025 - June 13, 2025

#CFP: 3rd Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Conference in Philosophy

#CFP: 3rd Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Conference in Philosophy

We are pleased to announce that the 3rd annual Duke-UNC Philosophy Graduate Conference will be held on March 29, 2025 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. We welcome submissions...

Call for Papers: Faith and Spirituality in the Wake of Scandal

Call for Papers: Faith and Spirituality in the Wake of Scandal

Call for Papers: Faith and Spirituality in the Wake of Scandal University of Erfurt, Germany, 26–27 June 2025 (On site and Online)

Call for Papers: “Understanding the Intersection”: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion

Call for Papers: “Understanding the Intersection”: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion

The Center for the Study of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion is excited to announce a call for submissions for its upcoming virtual conference on March 13-14, 2025. This interdisciplinary conference...

Workshop on Traveling Expertise in Modern South Asia and Beyond

Workshop on Traveling Expertise in Modern South Asia and Beyond

The South Asian Studies Council at Yale University is seeking applicants from scholars interested in participating in a workshop on “Traveling Expertise” on May 8-9, 2025 in New Haven. This...

CFP: International Conference on Decolonizing Social Sciences and Humanities: Islamic and Non-Western Perspectives

CFP: International Conference on Decolonizing Social Sciences and Humanities: Islamic and Non-Western Perspectives

CALL FOR PAPERS the “International Conference on Decolonizing Social Sciences and Humanities: Islamic and Non-Western Perspectives”, organized by the Faculty of Islamic Studies, UIII and the Institute Social, TĂŒrkiye, on...

CFP: Making Boundaries 2025

CFP: Making Boundaries 2025

The KFG « Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations » is announcing its next annual conference, which will take place in Erfurt from the 4^th^ to 6^th^ June 2025. The topic is Making Boundaries –...

CFP: AGIC Journeying

CFP: AGIC Journeying

AGIC is excited to announce that our Call for Proposals is officially open for this year’s event on the theme of Journeying! The due date for submission is December 1,...

CFP: The Legacies Conference 2025: The Legacies of Nicaea I and Vatican II: An Inheritance Unfolding

CFP: The Legacies Conference 2025: The Legacies of Nicaea I and Vatican II: An Inheritance Unfolding

Details Call for Papers (Due March 1, 2025) - The Legacies Conference 2025: “The Legacies of Nicaea I and Vatican II: An Inheritance Unfolding”, September 4-7, 2025, Marquette University, Milwaukee,...

CFP: Religion, conflict and reconciliation in a fragile world

CFP: Religion, conflict and reconciliation in a fragile world

Hybrid International Conference organized by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies in celebration of its 20th Anniversary, Hope Park Campus and online, 1st of July 2024...

CFP: AAR-WR: Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality

CFP: AAR-WR: Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality

American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Annual Conference (Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality)

CFP: The Futures of Religious Studies.

CFP: The Futures of Religious Studies.

The EIR is thrilled to announce the theme of our 2025 Regional Meeting! Join us from April 4-6 at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY for a conference around the...

CFP: The National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (NABPR) invites paper and panel proposals for the annual meeting.

CFP: The National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (NABPR) invites paper and panel proposals for the annual meeting.

National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion Call for Papers Details Annual Meeting Baylor University Waco, Texas May 19-21, 2025

CFP: Mapping Spaces, Embodying Territories: Spatial Humanities and GIScience Across the Disciplines

CFP: Mapping Spaces, Embodying Territories: Spatial Humanities and GIScience Across the Disciplines

Fifty years ago, the towers fell. Two miles north of the gleaming steel of the then-still-new Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing development had been a triumph...

CFP: 2025 Rocky Mountain-Great Plains (RMGP) Regional Meeting

CFP: 2025 Rocky Mountain-Great Plains (RMGP) Regional Meeting

Call for Proposals 2025 Rocky Mountain-Great Plains (RMGP) Regional Meeting Hosted by the RMGP Region of the AAR & the Religion and Bible Society

CFP: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Liberal Arts Tradition: A Symposium and Edited Volume

CFP: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Liberal Arts Tradition: A Symposium and Edited Volume

Call for Papers: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Liberal Arts Tradition:

CFP: Transitions - American Academy of Religion – Southeast Region

CFP: Transitions - American Academy of Religion – Southeast Region

AAR-SE is excited to announce that our 2025 meeting will take place at Florida Memorial University in Miami, Florida from March 7-9, 2025. The conference theme is “Transitions”.

Note: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

Note: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

The SSSR+RRA 2024 Annual Meeting will be held at The Westin Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA on October 18-20, 2024.  The theme of the 2024 Annual Meeting is Relig**ion: Past, Present, and...

CFP for Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564) Volume X, Issue 1, January 2025

CFP for Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564) Volume X, Issue 1, January 2025

CFP for Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564) Volume X, Issue 1, January 2025

Call for Papers: Spring 2025 Special Issue of Critical Humanities on Planetary Thinking: Appalachia

Call for Papers: Spring 2025 Special Issue of Critical Humanities on Planetary Thinking: Appalachia

Spring 2025 Special Issue of Critical Humanities on Planetary Thinking [ ] Appalachia

Note: New Zoom Webinar Series: Off-Script

Note: New Zoom Webinar Series: Off-Script

Off-Script is a monthly Zoom conversation for graduate students and scholars interested in the critical comparative study of scriptures. Think of it as a get-together for our subfield to connect,...

AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically after ChatGPT

AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically after ChatGPT

The advent of increasingly sophisticated and potentially autonomous forms of artificial intelligence poses a challenge to understandings of the human place in the cosmos in ways perhaps as profound as...

Call for Papers: Calligraphers and Spiritualities Crossing Cultures (CrossCurrents)

Call for Papers: Calligraphers and Spiritualities Crossing Cultures (CrossCurrents)

Call for Papers: Calligraphers and Spiritualities Crossing Cultures (CrossCurrents)

CFP: Ways of Knowing: A ERAH Graduate Student Conference

CFP: Ways of Knowing: A ERAH Graduate Student Conference

The graduate students of English, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and History Departments have come together to create the inaugural ERAH Graduate Conference, to be held on Southern Methodist University’s campus on...

CFP: Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities

CFP: Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities

Interdisciplinary Research, Digital Humanities, Text Analysis (56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA). ) Philadelphia, PA Organization: Northeast Modern Language Association

CFP: Creative Philology: Studies in Speculative Fiction, A Tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien (CFP for an essay collection)

CFP: Creative Philology: Studies in Speculative Fiction, A Tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien (CFP for an essay collection)

CFP: Creative Philology: Studies in Speculative Fiction, A Tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien (CFP for an essay collection)

CFP: Special Issue: Critical Theory at the Endgame

CFP: Special Issue: Critical Theory at the Endgame

Details Special Issue: Critical Theory at the Endgame Organization: CAPAS

CFP: AAAR-WR 2025 Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality

CFP: AAAR-WR 2025 Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality

American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Annual Conference (Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality)

Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres

Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres

CFP: Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres deadline for submissions: March 20, 2025 full name / name of organization: Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis contact email: [email protected]

CFP: Reconceptualizing Religion in Early African American Literature (Deadline Extended)

CFP: Reconceptualizing Religion in Early African American Literature (Deadline Extended)

Reconceptualizing Religion in Early African American Literature (Deadline Extended)

CFP: Religious Encounters: Tradition, Text, and Travel (Edited Volume, proposed to be published by Bloomsbury)

CFP: Religious Encounters: Tradition, Text, and Travel (Edited Volume, proposed to be published by Bloomsbury)

Religious Encounters: Tradition, Text, and Travel (Edited Volume, proposed to be published by Bloomsbury)

CFP: Genesis Epistemologies: Origins, Syncretism, and Human Evolution in Africa

CFP: Genesis Epistemologies: Origins, Syncretism, and Human Evolution in Africa

Genesis Epistemologies: Origins, Syncretism, and Human Evolution in Africa

CFP: Mindfulness, Movement, and Cultural Revitalization: Indigenous Contemplative Theories and Practices

CFP: Mindfulness, Movement, and Cultural Revitalization: Indigenous Contemplative Theories and Practices

Mindfulness, Movement, and Cultural Revitalization: Indigenous Contemplative Theories and Practices

CFP: Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions

CFP: Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions

Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions (book series)

CFP: The Future of Human Ecology, Revista Naturaleza y Libertad

CFP: The Future of Human Ecology, Revista Naturaleza y Libertad

CFP: SI: “The Future of Human Ecology”, Revista Naturaleza y Libertad

Call for Abstracts: Medical Humanities Conference 2024

Call for Abstracts: Medical Humanities Conference 2024

The 14th Annual Midwestern Medical Humanities Conference will be on October 25th, 2024 via Microsoft Teams. The theme of this year’s meeting is Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, which will comprise...

AI and Religous Experience

AI and Religous Experience

The theme for the forthcoming special issue of the Journal for the Study of Religious Experience is “AI and Religious Experience.” Artificial Intelligence has been rapidly implemented within our increasingly...

CFP: Foucault and the Frankfurt School – DePaul University Philosophy Graduate Student Conference

CFP: Foucault and the Frankfurt School – DePaul University Philosophy Graduate Student Conference

Foucault and the Frankfurt School – DePaul University Philosophy Graduate Student Conference Keynote Speakers: Amy Allen and Daniele Lorenzini. Michel Foucault once famously said “if I had been familiar with...

Call for Papers: Religion and the Work of Art

Call for Papers: Religion and the Work of Art

Equinox Publishing, UK and CrossCurrents (University of North Carolina Press). S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate has pointed out that in understanding the relation of religion and art the artwork is often less...

CFP: Real-Time History: Engaging with Living Archives and Temporal Multiplicities

CFP: Real-Time History: Engaging with Living Archives and Temporal Multiplicities

Real-Time History: Engaging with Living Archives and Temporal Multiplicities MAR 19, 2025 - MAR 21, 2025 Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History at the German Historical Institute Washington...

Call for papers: Conference on the History of Women Religious

Call for papers: Conference on the History of Women Religious

Thirteenth Triennial CHWR: Lives and Archives University of Notre Dame - June 22–25, 2025 The committee for the Conference on the History of Women Religious (CHWR) invites proposals for papers and panels...

Religion and Politics: Historical Developments and Contemporary Transformations

Religion and Politics: Historical Developments and Contemporary Transformations

Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, The relationship between religion and politics is both dynamic and complex. Scholars have revealed ways in which individual religious beliefs and practices influence political attitudes,...

CFP: Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn (Twenty-First-Century Religion and Culture in Youth Literature)

CFP: Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn (Twenty-First-Century Religion and Culture in Youth Literature)

CFP: Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn (Twenty-First-Century Religion and Culture in Youth Literature) Deadline for submissions of proposals: July 15, 2024 For the full CFP including list...

Climate, Religion and Responsibility

Climate, Religion and Responsibility

Climate, Religion and Responsibility Submission Deadline: June 30, 2024 As a co-founder of the International Journal on Responsibility (IJR), Dr. Calvin Redekop, along with scholar Norman Kraus, Ph.D., actively debated the role...

Join the Staff of EAS – Managing Editor Position

Join the Staff of EAS – Managing Editor Position

Early American Studies, a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and published by Penn Press, seeks a new Managing Editor to join our small...

Call for Papers - ABHS Torbet Prize

Call for Papers - ABHS Torbet Prize

Call for Papers - Torbet Prize Best Essay in any area of Baptist History The winning essay is eligible for publication in ABHS’s journal Foundations and its author awarded $500 This prize...

CFP: Conference on the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea

CFP: Conference on the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea

The Council of Nicaea in AD 325 was a decisive moment in the definition of Christian belief, discipline and practice. The debates that followed the council over the course of...

CALL FOR PAPERS - Religious Communities in the Virtual Age

CALL FOR PAPERS - Religious Communities in the Virtual Age

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, religious communities across Europe and the world have engaged with the digital world and specific digital technologies in a wide variety of ways. Some have embraced...

CALL FOR PAPERS - From the Asia Pacific Theological Seminary

CALL FOR PAPERS - From the Asia Pacific Theological Seminary

You would have 30-45 minutes to present your paper and then we will have someone respond to you. We would also allot some time for questions and answers. This invitation...

DESIRE AND INTIMACY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION

DESIRE AND INTIMACY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION

The Department of Religious Studies' Graduate Student Association at Northwestern University invites submissions for a graduate student conference centered on the theme Desire and Intimacy in the Study of Religion,...

CFP: Doing Theology in a Canadian Context

CFP: Doing Theology in a Canadian Context

Please see the poster for more information on TGSA’s upcoming Spring 2024 conference, “Doing Theology in a Canadian Context.” Proposals of 300-words are welcome from across theological disciplines, by Friday,...

CFP: Sea Change: Religion, Cosmology, Environment, EIR-AAR

CFP: Sea Change: Religion, Cosmology, Environment, EIR-AAR

The theme for the 2024 Conference is Sea Change: Religion, Cosmology, Environment. Understanding that we all live within a time of climate crisis, we welcome papers and panels that broadly engage...

Canadian Theological Society - Call for Papers - Annual Meeting

Canadian Theological Society - Call for Papers - Annual Meeting

The theme of Congress 2024, Sustaining Shared Futures, confronts us with the reality that we exist within a web of interconnectivity, not only with all of humanity and nature today,...

Nicea and the Church of the Third Millennium Towards Catholic-Orthodx Unity

Nicea and the Church of the Third Millennium Towards Catholic-Orthodx Unity

The Council of Nicaea (325) is foundational for Orthodox-Catholic unity. The Council inaugurated a synodal way of addressing theological and canonical issues at the universal level. The Nicene Creed provided...

Special Issue: 'Race, Religion, and Nationalism in the 21st Century'

Special Issue: 'Race, Religion, and Nationalism in the 21st Century'

This Special Issue invites submissions that interrogate the intersection between race, religion, and nationalism in the 21st century. Submissions might explore questions such as: What role does religion play in...

CFP: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.

CFP: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.

Call for Papers and Artists: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. The conference occur at Syracuse University from 8-10 December 2023....

CFP: The Other, Persecution and Response

CFP: The Other, Persecution and Response

CALL FOR PAPERS 2023 Eastern International Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion May 6-7, 2023 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Deadline for submissions is February 1, 2023

CFP: Sensational Religion: A Religion Graduate Student Symposium at Florida State University

CFP: Sensational Religion: A Religion Graduate Student Symposium at Florida State University

Religion Graduate Student Symposium at Florida State University February 17 & 18, 2023.

CFP: AGIC 2023 presents: “Religion Performed”

CFP: AGIC 2023 presents: “Religion Performed”

Religion Performed: Insights at the Intersection of Religiosity, Performance, and Performativity.

CFP: McGill University's Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR)

CFP: McGill University's Journal of the Council for Research on Religion (JCREOR)

- What Does the United Nations Represent?

Other CFP sites

Other CFP sites

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