Dear all,
Firstly, welcome to a glut of new members. Please feel free to introduce yourselves and join in any threads, resurect any old ones from the archives, etc.
Here follows a few CFPs, etc. Apologies for cross posting.
Best Wishes,
Dave
Dr Dave Green
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Society for the Academic Study of Magic (SASM):
http://www.sasm.co.uk
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CALL FOR PAPERS
MYTH, LITERATURE, AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
Date: 2-4 September, 2010
Venue: Wivenhoe Park Campus, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
An international conference organized by the Centre for Myth Studies at the University of Essex, supported by the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies.
The Centre for Myth Studies at the University of Essex is pleased to announce an international conference on “Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious” to be held at the Wivenhoe Park campus, 2-4 September, 2010. We invite proposals for papers (of 20 minutes duration), or panel sessions, dealing with the conjunction of myth, psychoanalysis, and literary-artistic activity. While proposals on any aspect of myth, literary, and psychoanalytic studies are very welcome, the organisers would particularly encourage interdisciplinary contributions. The topics might include, but will not be confined to:
Literary re-inscriptions of myths and mythic patterns
Literature as mythmaking
The significance and meaning of myths in psychoanalytic theory
Myth as the language of the unconscious
Archetypes, symbols, and metamorphoses
Myths in the inner and outer worlds
Dreams, visions, myths
Myth and re-enchantment
The role of myth in medical practice
William Blake and myth
Time, space and the primordial
Myth and modernism
A selection of papers from the conference will be published.
The deadline for proposals is 28 February, 2010. Proposals should take the form of a title for the paper and a 250-word abstract, accompanied by a brief biographical note, including institutional affiliation where appropriate. To submit a proposal, or for more information, please write to Dr Sanja Bahun, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ or, by e-mail, to [log in to unmask]
Note: Thanks to the generosity of the Bean Trust, a limited number of bursaries will be made available to speakers contributing specifically to a panel session on the place that William Blake’s work occupies in the field of myth, literature, and the unconscious. If you are interested in applying for one of these bursaries, please indicate this in your proposal.
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The 2010 International Conference
Changing Gods. Between Religion and Everyday Life
International Conference organized by CESNUR, Italian Association of
Sociology (AIS) - Sociology of Religions Section, and the School of
Political Science - University of Torino
Torino, Italy, 9-11 September 2010
http://www.cesnur.org/2010/to_cfp.htm
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference will assess the international, global-local, and local
dimensions of religious change, religious pluralism, spirituality,
minority religions, new religious movements, new movements within Islam
and Christianity, Esotericism and the New Age, survey the current
situation, and consider the fate of religious and spiritual groups as
they change and relate to everyday life in an increasingly
multi-cultural and trans-national world. Papers will be accepted from a
variety of perspectives (sociology, history, anthropology, psychology,
law, religious studies).
Topics will include: Change in Old and New Religions; Religion and
Everyday Life; Societal Responses to Religious Diversity and Pluralism;
Religious Movements between Mainstreaming and Marginalization; Religion,
Spirituality, and Body; Religion Online and Online Religion; Magic,
Esotericism, and the Sacred; Bio-religion and Politics; Prayer and
Everyday life; Young Generations; Lifestyles, Religion, and the Sacred;
Gender and the Sacred; and The Emergence of New Movements and Groups.
Those who would like to present papers are invited to submit a 200-word
abstract of their paper (in English or Italian) and a 200-word
curriculum vitae to [log in to unmask] before February 28, 2010.
Speakers will be allocated 20 minutes for their talks (but they can
bring longer papers to give to interested participants or e-mail these
later).
Those who would like to arrange a full session should assume that they
will have 2 hours, allowing time for 5 speakers or, if they prefer, 4
speakers and more time for discussion. The session organiser should, in
turn, submit a 200-word synopsis of the whole session and 200-word CVs
and abstracts for each speaker to [log in to unmask] before February
28, 2010. The selection panel will be looking for empirical and
theoretical contributions to the scholarly understanding of religious
and spiritual change and pluralism, religion and everyday life, and to
the variety of societal and individual responses to religion. Authors of
papers that have been accepted will be notified before April 15, 2010.
The conference will begin in the morning of Thursday September 9 and it
will end in the afternoon of Saturday September 11. The venues will be
in downtown Torino. A field trip will be arranged in the afternoon of
Friday September 10. Participants will be responsible for arranging
their own accommodation: there are plenty of good hotels in downtown
Torino and you may want to consult your travel agent. Further details
about the conference will be available in due course on the CESNUR
(www.cesnur.org) website.
Unfortunately no scholarship will be available for participants. Each
participant, including speakers, will be expected both to pay his or her
travel and accommodation expenses, and to register before being included
in the final programme.
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘YOUTHFUL SPACES OF BELIEF’
RGS –IBG Annual International Conference: London, 1st-3rd September 2010
Session Organiser: Peter Hemming (Brunel University)
Sponsored by the RGS-IBG Children, Youth and Families Research Group
Religion is currently on the social and political agenda like never before, and this development has been reflected through increasing interest in the Social Sciences. In Geography, the ‘new’ geographies of religion have gained in prominence (Kong 2001) and the issue of space has received greater attention from other disciplines (e.g. Knott 2005). Scholars from within the sub-discipline of geographies of childhood and youth have also begun to consider the significance of religion in the spaces that shape the everyday lives of children and young people (e.g. Dwyer, Hemming, Hopkins, Olson). But the word ‘belief’ encompass much more than religion. It includes ethical, moral and political views that structure the lives of religious and non-religious children and young people alike. These perspectives often provide innovative ways of thinking about and understanding contemporary global issues such as the environment and living with diversity. As such, beliefs and the way in which they intersect with space and place will be of central concern for both geographers and other researchers interested in children, youth and families.
Papers on youthful spaces of belief might include, but would not be limited to, any of the following interdisciplinary topics:
· The role of belief in constructing childhood and youth
· Influences of and influences on beliefs
· Religious education and education spaces
· Belief and spaces of inclusion/exclusion
· Communities of belief
· Social cohesion
· Emotional , affective and embodied aspects of belief
· Belief and social identity
· Intergenerational issues and home spaces
· Nationhood and belief
· Moral and ethical geographies
· New social movements
· Governing beliefs
· Transitions and the life course
· Innovative methods for researching childhood, youth and belief
Please send your proposed title, along with your name, affiliation, email address and abstract (max 250 words) to [log in to unmask] by Friday 5th February 2010.
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Please see below for details of a new facility for sharing resources in
the Humanities:
HumBox is a new way of storing, managing and publishing Humanities
teaching resources on the web. It allows you to share handouts,
exercises, podcasts, videos and so on. The HumBox project is a
collaboration between four Humanities Subject Centres (Languages,
Linguistics and Area Studies, English, History and Philosophical and
Religious Studies), and at least twelve different higher education
institutions across the UK. It is part of a wider Open Educational
Resources initiative funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems
Committee) and the Higher Education Academy, to showcase UK Higher
Education by encouraging teachers within HE institutions to publish
excellent teaching and learning resources openly on the web. Humbox is
available at http://www.humbox.ac.uk <http://www.humbox.ac.uk/> . The
official launch of Humbox is taking place on 26th February at the
University of Sheffield, and you are all warmly invited to attend
(follow the URL just given for details of how to register).
Dr Rebecca O'Loughlin
Academic Coordinator (Theology)
Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
UK
URL: http://prs.heacademy.ac.uk <http://prs.heacademy.ac.uk/>
Tel: +44 (0)113 343 1166
Fax: +44 (0)113 343 3654
Email: [log in to unmask]
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The University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, welcomes you to the 20th Nordic conference in sociology of religion. The conference will take place in Kristiansand in August, 4-6, 2010. The conference language is English.
Conference theme: MULTIRELIGIOUS SOCIETIES - POLARIZATION, CO-EXISTENCE, INDIFFERENCE
Plenary speakers: James A. Beckford, Helen Rose Ebaugh, Effie Fokas and Ole Riis.
Have a look at the conference website: www.uia.no/ncsr2010
The website has recently been updated with information on programme, accomodation, suggested sessions, registration and online payment.
Paper abstracts, deadline March 1, 2010
Registration, deadline May 31, 2010.
Welcome to the website and to Kristiansand!
Pål Repstad,
Professor in Sociology of Religion.
University of Agder, Service box 422, N-4604 Kristiansand, Norway.
Tel. Work +47 38 14 15 54, Mob. +47 97 65 76 47.
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Dear Colleagues
My Department is inviting applications for a PhD studentship - some of the areas highlighted (see below) could be interpreted in a way relevant to a sociology of religion topic by a potential candidate. Please pass on to any students you think might be interested.
Sylvie Collins-Mayo.
Kingston University
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
PhD Studentships Criminology & Sociology
Applications are invited for a partial PhD studentship in the following areas from February 2009:
Victimisation & abuse;
Offender Management & Policy evaluation
Cyber crime (any area);
Life course & Transitions;
Space & communities.
For further information about the relevant research centres, please visit the Faculty web pages at http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/
You should have a good degree in the relevant subject area and have, or be soon to obtain, an appropriate Master’s qualification.
A partial studentship will be for £10,500 and will cover your Home tuition fee and payment for a small amount of weekly teaching (x 6 hours).
For an application form, to be submitted by February 1st please contact Rebecca Ng at [log in to unmask] or telephone 020 8417 2304.
Please contact Professor Julia Davidson for further information [log in to unmask]
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
Department of Classics
TYTUS SUMMER RESIDENCY PROGRAM
The University of Cincinnati Classics Department is pleased to announce the Margo Tytus Summer Residency Program. Summer Residents, in the fields of philology, history and archaeology will come to Cincinnati for a minimum of one month and a maximum of three during the summer. Applicants must have the Ph.D. in hand at the time of application. Apart from residence in Cincinnati during term, the only obligation of Summer Residents is to pursue their own research. They will receive free university housing. They will also receive office space and enjoy the use of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College Libraries.
The University of Cincinnati Burnam Classics Library (http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/classics/) is one of the world's premier collections in the field of Classical Studies. Comprising 240,000 volumes and other research materials, the library covers all aspects of the Classics: the languages and literatures, history, civilization, art, and archaeology. Of special value for scholars is both the richness of the collection and its accessibility -- almost any avenue of research in the classics can be pursued deeply and broadly under a single roof. The unusually comprehensive core collection, which is maintained by three professional classicist librarians, is augmented by several special collections such as 15,000 nineteenth century German Programmschriften, extensive holdings in Palaeography, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. At neighboring Hebrew Union College, the Klau Library (http://library.cn.huc.edu/), with holdings in excess of 450,000 volumes and other research materials, is rich in Judaica and Near Eastern Studies.
Application Deadline: February 15.
A description of the Tytus Summer Residency Program and an application form is available online at http://classics.uc.edu/index.php/tytus. Questions can be directed to [log in to unmask]
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A new issue of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality is now
available online on an open access basis. Volume 4, Number 1 (2010) contains:
Editorial:
Joseph Gelfer, Both Remedy and Poison: Religious Men and the Future of Peace
(pp. 1-5)
Articles:
Stephen Boyd, On Being Here with Others: Space, Identity and Justice (pp. 6-18)
Roland Boer, Of Fine Wine, Incense and Spices: The Unstable Masculine
Hegemony of the Books of Chronicles (pp. 19-31)
Book Reviews:
Joseph Gelfer, Review of James Houghton, Larry Bean & Tom Matlack, The Good
Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood (pp. 32-33)
Robert J. Myles, Review of Heather Ellis and Jessica Meyer (eds.),
Masculinity and the Other: Historical Perspectives (pp. 34-36)
Björn Krondorfer, Review of John Powers, A Bull of a Man: Images of
Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism (pp. 37-40)
Joseph Gelfer, Review of Björn Krondorfer (ed.), Men and Masculinities in
Christianity and Judaism: A Critical Reader (pp. 41-42)
Philip Culbertson, Review of Chen Z. Oren and Dora Chase Oren (eds.),
Counseling Fathers (pp. 43-46)
Márcia Elisa Moser, Review of Heike Walz, David Plüss (eds.), Theologie und
Geschlecht. Dialoge querbeet (pp. 47-50)
Please refer to our website for further information: http://www.jmmsweb.org
Kind regards,
Joseph.
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