Call for Papers

The fourth biennial Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference

Conference dates: 18-21 July 2017

Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2016

Conference website: http://congregationalmusic.org

Venue: Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, United Kingdom

Congregational music-making is a vital and vibrant practice within Christian communities worldwide. It reflects, informs, and articulates convictions and concerns that are irreducibly local even as it flows along global networks. The goal of the Christian Congregational Music conference is to expand the avenues of scholarly inquiry into congregational music-making by bringing together world-class scholars and practitioners to explore the varying cultural, social, and spiritual roles music plays in the life of various Christian communities around the world.

Paper proposals on any topic related to the study of congregational music-making will be considered, but we especially welcome papers that explore one or more of the following: 

• Gender, Sexuality, and the Worshipping Body In what ways do gender and sexuality condition the production and experience of congregational music?  How are these differences constructed, perpetuated, or challenged in musical performance? In what ways does social anxiety around sex and gender condition who is involved in congregational music and how they participate?
• Soundscapes and Resonant Spaces  How have particular built environments (e.g., concert halls, theatres, public spaces) shaped the sounds of Christian congregations? What do these spaces afford sonically and what do they preclude?  How might considering the broader landscape or soundscape enhance our understanding of congregational music and sound? Perspectives from architecture, cultural geography, and ecomusicology are particularly encouraged.
• Congregational Music in and as Prayer In congregational worship, music exists alongside a range of other sonic, spoken, internal, textual, material and visual forms through which congregations engage in personal and communal prayer. What role does music play within the wider activity of corporate prayer? How does music facilitate prayer, and in what ways can textless music be considered prayer?
• Ecumenical and Interfaith Dialogues How does music erect or challenge the boundaries among different Christian traditions, and among Christian music and music of other faiths? How can music promote ecumenical and interfaith relationships and conversations? What insights and approaches can scholars studying Christian communities draw from scholars of other faith traditions?
• Music and Reformation In marking 500 years since the start of the Protestant Reformation, we welcome new perspectives on the role of music in the Protestant Reformation and counter-Reformation, as well as continuing effects of the Reformation in discourse and practice on music in the present-day. How can studying music challenge or nuance received narratives and historiographical models? What new perspectives can be brought to bear on this much-considered historical moment?
• Rethinking “Congregation” How have new transportation and communications technologies changed the way Christians gather and understand themselves as congregations? How does gathering in spaces outside local church congregations—from festivals to concerts to online worship environments—influence the production and experience of Christian music-making? How does music work within these spaces to facilitate new modes of congregating?

We are now accepting proposals (maximum 250 words) for individual papers and for organised panels consisting of three papers. The online proposal form can be found on the conference website at http://congregationalmusic.org/content/proposals. Proposals must be received by 15 December 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 31 January 2017, and conference registration will begin on 15 February 2017. Further instructions and information will be made available on the conference website at http://congregationalmusic.org.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION

Location:

Most conference sessions will be held at Ripon College Cuddesdon, a theological college affiliated with the University of Oxford. The college is located seven miles south-east of the Oxford city centre and is accessible by car or bus. This year, we will also take an afternoon excursion to Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Fees:

Fees for conference registration, room and board will be posted in January. Ripon College Cuddesdon has extended reasonable rates to make this conference affordable for domestic and international scholars in various career stages. There are a small number of bursaries available for graduate student presenters. Students interested in being considered for a bursary should tick the box on the paper proposal form.

Conference schedule:

The schedule for the four-day conference maintains a unique balance of presentations from featured speakers, traditional conference panel presentations, and roundtable discussions. A draft conference programme will be available in February 2017 on the conference website.

Featured speakers:

• Prof. Nancy Ammerman Professor of Sociology Boston University
• Prof. Jeremy Begbie Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology Duke Divinity School
• Dr. Sylvia A. Nannyonga-Tamusuza Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology Makerere University
• Dr. Bettina Varwig Senior Lecturer in Music King’s College London
• Prof. John Witvliet Professor of Worship, Theology, & Congregational and Ministry Studies Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
• Dr. Abigail Wood Senior Lecturer, Department of Music University of Haifa

For all programme-related queries, please contact: conference@congregationalmusic.org.

BRAIS 2017 Call for Papers

Fourth Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies

Tuesday 11 April (5pm) – Thursday 13 April (5pm) 2017

Chester Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Chester

Call for panels and papers

Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (April 2014) and London (April 2015 and April 2016), the organisers invite proposals for whole panels or individual papers on any aspect or sub-discipline of Islamic Studies, for the Fourth Annual Conference of BRAIS. Islamic Studies is broadly understood to include both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority contexts as well as historical, textual, and contemporary anthropological and sociological approaches.

Pre-arranged panels are particularly welcome on themes within the subject area, such as:

• Qur’anic studies
• Sociology of Islam
• Law
• Muslims in Britain/Europe/North America and other minority contexts
• History, Medieval and Modern
• History of Science
• Philosophy and Theology
• Muslims in Africa and Asia
• Intellectual History
• Islamic Art and Architecture
• Diversity within Islam
• Economics and Finance
• Education
• Gender Studies
• Islam in the Media
• Interreligious Relations

Individual proposals will also be considered, and, if accepted, will then be grouped with similar submissions by the conference organisers. 

How to submit you panel/paper proposal

For panels, a 200-word outline of the theme of the panel, together with 200-word abstracts of each paper and the details of each presenter, should be submitted using the form which is availableHERE. Please save the document as follows: “Surname of panel chair_first name of panel chair_panel”. Example: “Smith_John_panel”.

For individual papers, a 200-word abstract of the paper should be submitted using the form which is available HERE. Please save the document as follows: “Your surname_your first name_paper”. Example: “Smith_John_paper”.

ALL PANEL AND PAPER SUBMISSIONS MUST BE IN ENGLISH. SUBMISSIONS IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

All completed forms should be sent by email attachment to brais@ed.ac.uk by 5pm (UK time) on Wednesday 30^th November 2016. You will receive an email notification confirming the receipt of your form.

IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A NOTIFICATION RECEIPT, PLEASE CONTACT US.

All panel and individual paper proposals will be reviewed (double blind) by two members of the BRAIS Conference Committee. We will contact you at the end of January 2017 to inform you as to whether your panel/paper has been accepted.

If you have any questions, please contact the Conference Committee on: brais@ed.ac.uk. 

Plenary sessions at the conference

The conference committee is very pleased to announce that plenary lectures at the conference will be delivered by Prof Bryan Turner (Australian Catholic University) on ‘Can there be a “Sociology of Islam”?’; Profs Humayun Ansari (Royal Holloway, London) and Ron Geaves (Cardiff University) on ‘The History of Muslims in Britain’; and Profs Everett Rowson (New York University) and Gudrun Krämer (Free University of Berlin) on the new edition of The Encyclopaedia of Islam (kindly sponsored by Brill).

Travel to/from Chester

Chester is easily accessible, either by train from London Euston (2 hours) or via Manchester Airport and Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

The Jagiellonian University Institute for the Study of Religions and the Jagiellonian Centre for the Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture invite you to participate in 

The Fifth International Kraków Study of Religions Symposium: Religions: Fields of Research, Methods and Perspectives.

The symposium will take place between 7th and 9th November 2016 in Kraków and the submission deadline has been extended to 14th Semptember.

The event, titled Understanding and Explanation in the Study of Religions, will be dedicated to the memory of Walter Burkert. Three excellent keynote speakers will deliver their lectures.

Keynote speakers:

• Jan N. Bremmer (University of Groningen, Emiritus)
• Ralph W. Hood, Jr. (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
• Joanna Jurewicz (University of Warsaw)

Please find an overview of the conference, as well as the list of proposed topics, in the attachment.

Please send paper proposals in doc. format, including name and affiliation of the candidate, paper title, and abstract (up to 200 words) to religions.confer@gmail.com.

Submission deadline is 14th September 2016.
Submissions will be evaluated by The Academic Committee by 21th September 2016.

Participation fee (payable upon paper acceptance, until 1st October 2016) is 70 EUR / 300 PLN.

http://www.religions.confer.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/home

Pour info :
http://historiadelasmujeres2017.filo.uba.ar/
[MT 66]Penser les religiosités en perspective de genre : axes, approches et problématisations

Résumé:

Analyser le social à partir d’une perspective de genre implique inéluctablement de rendre compte de l’historicité politique et épistémologique du concept. Le genre comme catégorie heuristique reste très fortement liée aux débats et aux luttes des mouvements des femmes, ainsi qu’aux tentatives de systématisations à partir des théories féministes. Dans cette perspective, la difficulté pour le savoir féministe –approche théorique et praxis politique- réside en ceci qu’il ne s’avère guère facile d’analyser et repenser le binôme genre et religion. Plus encore, si nous employons ces deux catégories dans le contexte latino-américain qui nous oblige à poser la question de la relation entre genre et pouvoir : pour paraphraser Spivak (1985), « les femmes peuvent-elles parler ? », « Quelles positions occupent-elles face à la colonialité du pouvoir (Lugones, 2008) ? Comment son monde-communauté (Segato, 2014) se conforme à la coloniale-modernité ?

Cette table ronde se veut un espace de réflexion sur la relation complexe entre les études du genre et les études sur le phénomène religieux (Tarducci, 2002). Nous cherchons à problématiser le peu d’intérêt que les ces dernières montrent vis-à-vis des expériences et processus religieux, du fait de leur lien explicite ou sous-jacent entre une idéologie hétéro-normée, la suprématie – ou domination selon Bourdieu (1998) – masculine et les différents systèmes de croyance. Bien que nous devions reconnaître la faiblesse de la production scientifique sur la religion à partir d’une perspective de genre, par rapport au développement de la sociologie, de l’histoire et de l’anthropologie des sciences, il nous apparaît essentiel de réaliser une étude des pratiques, discours, et représentations de la religion à partir d’une perspective glocale et de genre. De même, il apparaît intéressant de comprendre la portée de la subjectivité et la corporalité comme dimensions et catégorie d’analyses dans le cadre d’une perspective de genre et des études sur la religion.

Aussi, nous invitons à participer ceux qui – dans le cadre de l’anthropologie, la sociologie, l’histoire, la littérature et les disciplines connexes, abordent des questions et problématiques comme :

• 1)    Les processus de gestion et/ou résistance de la normativité religieuse à partir d’une perspective de genre ;
• 2)    Les pratiques et les sens donnés au respect et/ou à la transformation de la normativité sexuelle et familiales dans le cadre des différentes cosmovisions religieuses à partir d’une perspective interdisciplinaire ;
• 3)    La construction de la féminité et de la masculinité religieuse et l’existence de différentes formes d’agencements et de religiosités selon le genre ;
• 4)    Mouvements et théologies féministes et LGTBQI dans le cadre des différentes traditions et mouvements religieux ;
• 5)    Processus de conversion religieuse, transformation du self, identité et subjectivités dans une perspective de genre ;
• 6)    Les différentes formes que le corps sexué traverse performance, rituels, leadership, et sociabilités religieuses ;
• 7)    Erotismes, sexualités et récits amoureux dans différentes traditions et/ou communautés religieuses ;
• 8)    Les défis, débats et contributions théorico-méthodologiques à partir d’une approche transdisciplinaire et intersectionnelle dans les différentes champs d’études.

Coordinatrices :

• Mayra Soledad Valcarcel (IIEGE-UBA/CONICET) mayravalcarcel@yahoo.com.ar 
• Mari-Sol García Somoza (Canthel-Université Descartes/UBA) marisolgarciasomoza@gmail.com

Conference Theme: Dialog, education and religious tolerance

Concepción – Chile From May 23 to 26, 2017

For the first time, the Chilean Society for the Sciences of Religions will organize a congress dedicated to the dissemination of research works from the academic world. It is important to promote a continuous progress in the research on the religious phenomenon in Latin America from a non-denominational stance. For this reason, we think it is important to create spaces for disseminating the work of Chilean and foreigner researchers. In accordance with the requests received from several colleagues, in this Second Call we invite you to send free papers. Thematic lines for the symposium papers

• 1) Theory and methodology in the study of religions
• 2) Phenomenology of religions
• 3) Symbology and Art in religion
• 4) Islam and Islamophobia
• 5) Modern religious movements
• 6) Anthropology and sociology of religions
• 7) History of religious institutions
• 8) Literature and religion: Sacred texts
• 9) Religion, politics and gender studies
• 10) Psychology of religions
• 11) Education and religion
• 12) Ecclesiastical law
• 13) Religions in classical antiquity
• 14) Church-state relationships in Latin America
• 15) Archeology and religiosity in prehistoric times
• 16) Iconography and religious cultural heritage
• 17) Religions and human rights
• 18) Far East Religions
• 19) Philosophy of religions
• 20) Popular and ethnic religiosity in Latin America

Presentation of papers On the www.schcr.cl website, you can look into the “Simposios Aceptados” section in order to send a summary of your paper proposal to the coordinator of each working group. In case your paper proposal does not fit any of the symposia, it must be sent as a free paper, which will be assessed by the Scientific Committee of the Congress, and included in special symposia coordinated by the Organizing Committee.

The e-mail for sending free papers is: schcr2017@gmail.com IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU READ THOROUGHLY THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCEPTED SYMPOSIA, SO THAT YOU CAN SEND THE PAPER PROPOSAL DIRECTLY TO THE COORDINATORS. Only in case no symposium fits your proposal, this must be sent to the organization as a free paper.

MORE DETAILS AT http://www.schcr.cl/circular/SecondCallSCHCR.pdf

The Annual Conference of the Oral History Society in conjunction with Newman University and Leeds Trinity University

Conference Topic: Remembering  Beliefs – the shifting worlds of religion and faith in secular society

Friday, 14th and Saturday, 15th July, 2017 at Leeds Trinity University, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5HD

In recent years, belief and non belief have developed new significance. What might once have been valued as something individual and private in many contexts only a generation ago can now be a matter of open identification and even confrontation and judgement. In seeking to understand what has changed, memory has an important part to play: identifying how belief and non belief have played out at the level of family, community and society; recognising how people engage in the practices of belief and experience the institutions of organised religion. For reasons perhaps of prejudice, perspective and communal difference oral historians have largely neglected the topic of belief and non belief.

Going beyond studies which have focused on those with religious conviction, oral history offers the possibility to move debate outside the confines of institutionalised religion both conceptually and practically, pushing the boundaries of what is meant by belief. Indeed, it offers the ideal approach to understanding manifestations of belief and secularism at an individual level while tracking their relationship to shifting expressions of broader cultural norms and the conferment of identity. Tackling this exciting agenda, the remit of the Conference will be broad but contributions should focus on an oral history in relation to the following:

• methodological challenges in understanding belief, secularism and religion
• understanding the process of secularisation through oral history testimonies
• inter-subjectivity in interviews on belief and non belief
• the role belief plays in shaping memory
• exploring the interface of religion, belief and cultural/ national identities
• belief and education
• belief and non belief in social, political and cultural transformations
• shifting the narratives of religion away from an institutional base
• gender and established religious institutions
• sects and movements

Keynote speakers: Professor Callum Brown, University of Glasgow; Dr Abby Day, Goldsmiths, University of London; Dr Tina Block, Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia. After-Dinner Speaker, Friday, 14 July: Bruce Kent

Download the conference Call for Papers here.

All proposals for oral history-based contributions, including papers, panels, presentations, workshops, posters and displays should be submitted by 16th December 2016 to OHSConf2017@ohs.org.uk

Imperial College London, London, UK
17-18 April 2017

SUBMIT A PROPOSAL

2017 Call for Papers

We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, or colloquia addressing one of the following themes:

• THEME 1: RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS
• THEME 2: RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY AND SOCIALIZATION
• THEME 3: RELIGIOUS COMMONALITIES AND DIFFERENCES
• THEME 4: THE POLITICS OF RELIGION​
• 2017 Special Focus: Respecting Difference, Understanding Globalism

For information: http://religioninsociety.com/2017-conference/call-for-papers