Religious Studies and Theology

The Center for Icon Studies’ Third International Conference The Visual Culture of Iconoclasm and Atheism is organized and sponsored by the Museum of Russian Icons, in Clinton, MA (USA), this virtual conference is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Images of Atheism: The Soviet Assault on Religion curated by conference chair Dr. Wendy Salmond.

The Scottish Church History Society welcomes entries to its annual essay prize competition. Current PhD students and recent PhD graduates (those who graduated after 1 Jan 2020) working on any aspect of Scottish Church history are eligible to apply. The deadline is midnight on 12 June 2022.

How do politics and emotion intersect? How might our understandings of sovereignty change if we account for feelings and emotions? How is gender mobilized in assertions of sovereignty? 

Making the Pakistani state and Pakistan-based Taliban her objects of study, Shenila Khoja-Moolji (Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College) contemplates these questions by paying particular attention to state and non-state cultural productions that shape national publics. 

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The Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies (JCBS) invites authors to submit articles to its issue 36 (2023). The JCBS is always seeking new original research articles in English pertaining to the historical study of Chinese Buddhism in the pre-modern and modern periods. It seeks to promote the academic study, and teaching, of all aspects of Buddhist thought, practice, social, and institutional life in China, including historical interactions with Buddhist developments in South, East, and Central Asia.

Join us on Tuesday, May 10th, 2022, at 1:00pm (EDT) | 20:00 (Israel time), for "Encounters": A conversation with Magda Teter on Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth - held via ZOOM Webinar.

The Fund calls for papers reflecting on the lives and works of Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. The Fund particularly welcomes papers that address how the addition of newly available source material (the newly translated "Ichthys" in The Fruit of Our Lips [English] and the letters Eugen and Margrit Rosenstock-Huessy wrote to each other during the years of the "Gritli letters" [German]) enhance our understanding of their common life's work. 

Deadline: December 11th, 2022 by 11:59pm ET

The next meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics will be held January 5-8, 2023 in Chicago, IL. After virtual conferences in 2021 and 2022, this year we will be rejoining the Society of Christian Ethics and the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics for an in-person conference. The deadline to submit proposals is COB where you live Wednesday, May 31, 2022.