Conferences


This section highlights a number of conferences and workshops taking place all over the world. The Religion and Diversity Project (RDP) shares the information it receives concerning conferences and workshops. Unless otherwise indicated, the RDP is not responsible for the conferences or workshops listed below. For additional information, please follow the appropriate links. 


 

  

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May 2013

 

 

International Workshop: The Future of Religious Pluralism in Europe

May 17-18, 2013
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Gartensaal, Germany
For the conference program, please click here.

 

The Impact of Religion - Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy

May 20-22, 2013
Upppsala, Sweden
For additional information, please click here

 

To Be Or Not To Be A Jew
Problems on Converting to and Renouncing Judaism

May 23-24, 2013
Bucharest, Romania
Institute for Advanced Study and the Institute for the History of Religions of the Romanian Academy
For the program (in English & French) and the list of participants, please click here.

  

Pilgrimage and Relics

May 23-26, 2012
Dubrovnik, Croatia
For additional information, please click here.

 

Bridging the Secular Divide: Religion and Canadian Public Discourse
Combler le fossé laïque: Religion et discours public

May 27-28, 2013 / 27 au 28 mai 2013
McGill University, Montreal / Université McGill, Montréal
For additional information, please click here. / Cliquez ici pour de plus amples renseignements.

 

Law and Society Association  (LSA) Annual Meetings

May 30 - June 2, 2013
Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, MA
For additional information, please click here.

 

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June 2013

 

2013 Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

June 1-8, 2013
University of Victoria, British Colombia
For additional information, please click here.

 

The Jewish Revival in Europe and North America:  Between Lifestyle Judaism and Institutional Renaissance

June 5-6, 2013
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Call for paper deadline: March 15, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

Pilgrimage and Pilgrims: Journeys, Destinations, Meanings
Special Session at the International Conference on Tourism (ICOT 2013)

June 5-8, 2013
Limassol, Cyprus
Deadline for abstract submission: April 30, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

Islamic Family Law in Modern Europe And The Muslim World.
Normative, Legal And Empirical Analyses Beyond The Women’s Rights Issue

June 19-21, 2013
Nijmegen, Netherlands
For additional information, please click here.

 

Sensing the Sacred: Religion and the Senses, 1300-1800

June 21-22, 2013
University of York, York
For additional information, please click here.

   

Changing Religious Movements in a Changing World

June 21-24, 2013
Dalarna University Falun, Sweden
For additional information, please click here

 

Sacred Texts and Human Contexts: A Symposium on the Role of the Sacred Texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Island in Uniting and Dividing Humanity

June 23-25, 2013
Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies at Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
For additional information, please click here.

 

BRISMES Annual Conference 2013
Popular Movements in the Middle East and Islamic World

 

June 24–26, 2013
Dublin, Ireland
For additional information, please click here.

   

Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia

June 26-29, 2013
University of Goettingen, Germany 
For additional information, please click here

 
 

Racism and Anti-Racism through Education and Community Practice: An International Exchange 

June 26-28, 2013 
Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland, University of Edinburgh, UK 
For additional information, please click here.

 

Rethinking Community: Religious Continuities and Mutations in Late Modernity - 32nd ISSR/SISR Conference

27-30 June, 2013
Turku-Åbo, Finland
For additional information, please click here

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July 2013

 

Religion, utopias and alternatives to contemporary dilemmas 

July 2-5, 2013
Hotel Nacional in El Vedado, Havana
For additional information, please click here.

 

Ecclesiastical History Society Summer Conference /Christians and Religious Plurality

JUly 17–20 2013
University of Chichester, UK
Call for paper final deadline: April 8, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race

July 29-31, 2013
Accra, Ghana
For additional information, please click here
 

History as a Challenge to Buddhism and Christianity
10th Annual Conference of the European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies

July 27-August 1, 2013
Oude Abdij, Gent, Belgium
Call for paper deadline: April 30, 2013
For additional information, please click here.


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August 2013
  

Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds: 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

August 5-19, 2013
Manchester, United Kingdom 
For additional information, please click here.

 

2013 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) Annual Meeting

November 8-10, 2013
Westin Waterfront Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
For additional information, please click here.

 

Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) Annual Meeting
Tributaries, Eddies, and
Cross-Currents: Religion Outside the Mainstream

August 11-12, 2013
Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel, New York, New York
Deadline for paper proposals and abstracts: April 30, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

The Role of Theory in Folkloristics and Comparative Religion

August 21 - 23, 2013
University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Call for papers deadline: March 31, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

IMISCOE Tenth Annual Conference
Crisis and Migration–Perceptions, Challenges and Consequences

 August 25-27, 2013
Malmö University, Sweden
For additional information, please click here.

  

International Association for the Psychology of Religion Congress

August 27-30, 2013
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
For additional information, please click here.

  

RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2013 – 'New Geographical Frontiers' (second CFP)

August 28-30, 2013
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London
For additional information, please click here.

 

11th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association

August 28-31, 2013
Torino, Italy
For additional information, please click here.

 

RE21 – Religious Education in a Global-Local World

August 29-30, 2013
University College Cork, Ireland
Call for paper deadline: April 30 2013
For additional information, please click here.

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September 2013

 

The Word and the World: Public Theology in an Age of Global Media

September 2-6, 2013
Global Network for Public Theology Riverside Innovation Centre, University of Chester
Deadline for abstract submission: April 30, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

European Association for the Study of Religions Annual Conference

September 3-6, 2013
Liverpool Hope University
Submission deadline: June 1, 2013
For additional information, please click here.
Please submit your paper to the Conference Administrator, Sara Fretheim.

 

Media, Religion and in/Vulnerability, CRESC Annual Conference

September 4-6, 2013
SOAS, London
Call for paper deadline: April 8, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

CFP: Materializaing the Spirit: Spaces, Oobjects and Art in the Cultures of Women Religious


September 5-7, 2013
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London
For additional information, please click here.

 

Asian Migration and the Global Asian Diasporas

September 6-7, 2013
City University of Hong Kong
Deadline for abstract: April 30, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

   

 Power/Religion: A Revanche of Reaction or a Metaphor of Revolution?

September 10–15, 2013
University of Helsinki and the European University at St Petersburg and Russian Christian Academy for Humanities
For additional information, please click here.

 

Protecting the sacred: Recognition of Sacred Sites of Indigenous Peoples for Sustaining
Nature and Culture in Northern and Arctic Regions

September 11-13, 2013
Rovaniemi and Pyhätunturi, Finland
Abstract deadline: February 28, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

British Society for the Philosophy of Religion 2013 Conference

September 11-13, 2013
Oriel College, Oxford
Call for paper deadline: end of March, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

 Is the Post-Colonial Post-Secular?

September 20-12, 2013
Syracuse University
Deadline for abstracts: March 25, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

Transnationalism and Minority Cultures: The Mid-America Conference

September 26-28, 2013.
University of Oklahoma
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

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October 2013

 

  AASR 2013 Annual conference

October 2-4, 2013
University of South Australia, City West Campus
Call for paper deadline: July 31, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

International Symposium on Comparative Sciences

October 8-11, 2013
Sofia, Bulgaria
For additional information, please click here.


Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics Graduate Student Initiative (Hemi GSI)

October 11-13, 2013
Convergence 2013: Experimental Collectivities
Los Angeles, CA
Deadline: March 15th, 2013
For additional information, please click here.  

 

Crossroads - Europe, Migration and Culture

October 24-25, 2013
The University of Copenhagen
For additional information, please click here.

 

The Digital Humanities in Islamic & Middle East Studies

October 24-25 2013
Brown University, Rhode Island
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

Lived Religion: Studying Religious Practice
Annual meeting of the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion which will take place at the

October 24-25, 2013
University of Leiden
Deadline for all proposals: June 1, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

  

Religions and Social Innovation

October 27-29, 2013
University of St. Michael’s College
Call for paper (second round): May 3, 2013.
For additional information, please click here.

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November 2013

 

Global ReOrient: Chinese Pentecostal/Charismatic Movements in the Global East

November 1-2
Purdue University,West Lafayette, Indiana
Deadline for abstract submission: April 20, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference: The Italians

November 8-9, 2013
Loyola University, Chicago
Call for paper deadline: August 1, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

2013 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) Annual Meeting

November 8-10, 2013
Westin Waterfront Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
For additional information, please click here.
 

112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Society

November 20-24, 2013
Chicago, IL
Call for paper deadline: April 15, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

American Academy of Religion (AAR) 2013 Annual Meeting

November 23-26, 2013
Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland
For additional information, please click here.

International Conference/Everyday Life Practices of Muslims
in Europe: Consumption and Aesthetics

November 28-29, 2013
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Deadline for abstract submission: June 1, 2013

  

December 2013

 

International Conference-Women and Religion /Congrès International-Femmes et religions

December 4-6, 2013 / 4 au 6 décembre 2013
Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université
Call for paper: April 1, 2013 / Propositions de communications: 1 avril 2013
For additional information, please click here. / Cliquez ici pour plus de renseignements.

 

 

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January 2014

 

CMRC Conference/Media and Religion: the Global View An International Conference

January 9-12, 2014
University of Colorado Boulder
Deadline for abstract submission: July 15, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

Scientology in Scholarly Perspective
First International Conference on the Study of Scientology (and Antoinism)

 

24-25 January 2014
Faculty of Comparative Studies of Religions (FVG), Antwerpen, Belgium
Deadline for proposal submissions: September 30, 2013.

 

April 2014

 

 The 31st Annual Conference of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies
Nationalism, religion and tradition in the Muslim world

April 4-5, 2014
Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA
Deadline for submission of proposal:  January 15, 2014.
For additional information, please click here.

  

Religion in Urban Spaces

April 10-11, 2014
Göttingen, Germany
Call for paper deadline: May 30, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

May 2014

 

Religion and Pluralities of Knowledge

May 11-15, 2014
The University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Launch of Call for Papers: May 1, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

  

August 2014

 

The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) - Tenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference

 

August 6-10, 2014
Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montréal
Call for paper deadline: May 31, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

Critical Perspectives on Music, Education, and Religion

August 20-22, 2014
Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki Finland
Abstract submission deadline: September 1, 2013
For additional information, please click here.

 

2015


 

August 2015

 

XXI Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions 

August 23-29, 2015
Erfurt University, Erfurt, Germany
For additional information, please click here.

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