Dear colleagues,

Please see the following notice - a call for papers from colleagues studying apocalyptic and millenarian movements.

With best regards,

Michael Munnik

Publications and Communications Officer, Socrel

The Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian
Movements (CenSAMM) is pleased to announce its first annual conference,
to be held at the University of Bedfordshire (Bedford Campus) 27-28 June
2019.

The theme of the conference is The Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian
Movements: Critical and Interdisciplinary Approaches.

The aim of the conference is to facilitate critical and
interdisciplinary discussion of apocalypticism, millenarianism and
associated movements across time, place, and culture, and will cover
academic fields such as anthropology, archaeology, biblical studies,
critical theory, cultural studies, history, literary studies, political
studies, psychology, religious studies, sociology, etc. The
interdisciplinary scope is broadly understood to include methodologies,
comparative approaches, and showcasing of research more specific to
individual fields of expertise.

Speakers include:
John J. Collins (Yale Divinity School)
Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Bill McGuire (University College London)
Sarah Rollens (Rhodes College)
Beth Singler (University of Cambridge)
Fatima Tofighi (EUME, Berlin/University of Religions, Qom)
Paul-Francois Tremlett (Open University)

We invite individual paper proposals from scholars at all stages of
their career, including postgraduates, and we welcome suggestions for
group panels. Please submit proposals to [log in to unmask]
Submissions for papers should include a 300-word abstract and short CV.

Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2019.

Please see the CenSAMM website for more information
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