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Nationalism, Identity and Belief Symposium

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Call for Papers
Nationalism, Identity and Belief Symposium
First joint symposium of Society, Religion and Belief and Identity, Culture and Representation Research Centres University of Derby 25 March 2013

Keynote speaker: Daniel Trilling author of Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain’s Far Right (London: Verso, 2012), assistant editor The New Statesman, columnist for The Guardian.

The complexities and contradictions of globalized modes of identity have caused a reassessment of what constitutes national identity and how it is experienced. In late modernity there is a tendency for nationalism to be characterised as a reactive and reactionary response to the increasing cultural diversity evident in many Western societies. The British National Party and, latterly, the English Defence League typify this tendency. In continental Europe there are comparable groupings but many continental equivalents have demonstrated a greater capacity for organisation and have enjoyed a modicum of success in terms of parliamentary elections at national and European level: in France, the Front National; the Belgian/Flemish Vlaams Balang; the Danish Danske Folkparti; Jobbik in Hungary, The Golden Dawn in Greece and so on. The fortunes of these parties wax and wane but their social and media presence is constant. This symposium is a call to academics and activists to consider the ongoing appeal of nationalism, its cultural role, its strategies, localities and nature. We seek to explore the lure and repulsion of nationalism to its friends and critics and the many and varied cultural contexts through which it is reproduced.

Papers are invited to be considered for presentation in one of two parallel panels.
Typical themes for the panels will include but are not limited to:

Panel One: Nationalism, Identity and Conflict
       
– The organisation and activities of nationalist groups
– The appeal of nationalism
– Nationalism in crisis
– Banal nationalism
– Rethinking national identity
– The cultures of nationalism

Panel Two: Nationalism, Religion and Belief

– Nationalist rhetoric and the world faiths
– ‘The chosen people’ and globalization
– Spiritual nationalisms
– Subcultures and nationalist discourse
– Considering nationalism as a faith

Please submit a 250 word proposal and a bio-note by 19 December, 2012 to Andrew
Wilson (a.f.wilson@derby.ac.uk); Jason Lee (j.lee@derby.ac.uk); and Frauke
Uhlenbruch (f.uhlenbruch@derby.ac.uk)

Continuity & change in Islamic Societies

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CALL FOR PAPERS

“Continuity & change in Islamic Societies”

American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies Seton Hall University South Orange, New Jersey April 5-6, 2013

The topic of the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), to be held on April 5-6, 2013 in The Chancellor’s Suite, Student Center, Seton Hall University is “Continuity and Change in Islamic Societies.”

Islamic societies refer to regions and communities that identify with the religion and culture of Islam, but may approach politics, economics and certain social issues in different ways. Unlike what the late Professor Samuel Huntington may have thought, Islamic societies are far from being monolithic or even universally engaged in an ongoing cultural clash with the West. While Muslims worldwide embrace the concept of ummah, they also possess and express characteristics of diversity. Muslims live under monarchies and republics and come from a number of ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.
Scholars from all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to submit proposals. Please include full name, title, and institutional affiliation with your proposal (max. 250 words). We invite proposals dealing with the following topics as well as others not specified:
1. Political, economic and social relations within and between Muslims and other communities.
2. Political, economic, social and philosophical movements within Islamic societies/communities.
3. The impact of globalization on specific Muslim societies/communities.
4. The interplay of Islam with commerce, finance, technology, and education.
5. Religious minorities in Islamic societies and Muslims as minority groups.
6. The press, social networks, and communication within Islamic societies/communities.
7. Islam in America or American Islam? Defining a religion in the American context

Please send abstracts by e-mail attachment to:
Robert Hazan, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor of Political Science
Metropolitan State University of Denver                               
hazanr@msudenver.edu

Deadline for submission of proposals: January 15, 2013.
Further details of the conference and accommodations will be posted on the website.
For other inquires contact Robert Hazan hazanr@msudenver.edu;
Vivienne Angeles angeles@lasalle.edu 
or Gisela Webb Gisela.webb@shu.edu

Notice of acceptance by January 25. 2013
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Call for papers

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The Impact of Religion
Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy

An interdisciplinary conference at Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden, 20-22 May 2013

This conference offers a forum for sharing recent research on the role of religion in both the public and the private sphere – locally, nationally and internationally. Its design reflects the work of its host: a multi-disciplinary research programme at Uppsala University known as the Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy. This programme pays particular attention to the links between religion, law and wider social developments. For example, extensive migration has brought new forms of religion to European societies (including the Nordic countries) for many different reasons; their presence raises new issues for lawyers, healthcare workers and other service providers. At the same time, European populations live longer; their families reconstitute themselves in new ways; the workplace changes in nature; and the explorations of science render commonplace what was unthinkable one or two generations earlier. All these shifts interact with the changing nature of religion to make new demands on our understandings of democracy, law, family life, healthcare, well-being, welfare and science itself. Why, for instance, does legal pluralism appear to challenge the democratic order considerably more than its cultural equivalents? And how can we understand better the role of religious agents in a modern liberal democracy?

Religion, it is clear, has become a crucial research area in a wide variety of academic disciplines. The Uppsala conference provides an opportunity to disseminate, share and obtain results within this expanding field. We expect contributions from lawyers, human rights experts, social scientists, specialists in social policy, health and welfare, philosophers and scientists as well as those engaged directly in theology and religious studies. We are particularly interested in how religion (in all its diversity) influences different sectors of society and how they in turn influence religion.

Among the plenary speakers are:
Katarina Boele Woelki, Netherlands
Effie Fokas, Greece
Grace Davie, UK
Ayelet Shachar, Canada
Yilmaz Esmer, Turkey
Linda Woodhead, UK

Call for papers
Submissions are invited on the following themes, which – broadly speaking – mirror the Impact programme. Further sub-themes will be developed as the submitted papers arrive; these will be displayed on the conference website. Papers on comparative research are particularly welcome. Theoretical, methodological and substantive issues will be given equal weight. The conference language is English.

A variety of formats are envisaged: plenary sessions, paper sessions, roundtables, academic exchanges and policy debates. Please indicate your preference when you submit your abstract. Pre-organised sessions are welcome.

* Religious and social change – including the role of the media in these shifts
* Integration, democracy and political culture
* Families, law and society
* Well-being and health
* Welfare models – their organization and values
* Science and religion

Deadline for the submission of abstracts (max 200 words): 30th November 2012
The conference is hosted by The Impact of Religion programme and Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre at Uppsala University.
Up to date information on the programme, registration, abstract format, venue etc. is available at: www.impactofreligion.uu.se, where you also find more details about The Impact of Religion programme itself.

International interdisciplinary conference to honour the work of Professor Lauri Honko (1932-2002)

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Call for Papers – 2nd Announcement

The Departments of Folkloristics and Comparative Religion at the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, together with the Donner Institute, are organizing an international interdisciplinary conference to honour the work of Professor Lauri Honko (1932-2002)

THE ROLE OF THEORY IN FOLKLORISTICS AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION
21-23 August 2013
University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

The language of the conference is English.

Timetable:
Call for papers, deadline 31 March 2013
Registration, deadline 31 May 2013

For more detailed information concerning the conference see the attached documents or visit our website: http://honkoconference.utu.fi/ Also now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/416180771776969/
On behalf of the Organizing Committee,Björn DahlaThe Donner Institute

The 5th Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Religion and Spirituality

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Dear colleagues,
I’m happy to announce that we are ready to call for papers for the the 5th Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Religion and Spirituality, which will be organized by the Program in Religious Studies at Tel Aviv University, 28-29 May 2013.

This conference will continue the tradition which was formed at the University of Haifa over the last four years, and which from now on will take place at Tel Aviv University. This event can be a good opportunity for researchers working outside of Israel to learn more about the country’s bustling New-Age ‘scene’ and about development in the research on contemporary spirituality in Israel.

The conference will include Keynote Lectures by Prof. Ronald Hutton (University of Bristol, UK), Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal (Rice University, US) and Prof. James R. Lewis (University of Tromso, Norway).
We will of course be very happy to receive your own proposals by December 15 2012, addressed to Mr. Shai feraro (Conference Coordinator), spirituality.tel.aviv@gmail.com

Call for papers, International Symposium: Europe and Hajj in the Age of Empires (Leiden University, 13-14 May 2013)

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International Symposium

Europe and Hajj in the Age of Empires: Muslim Pilgrimage prior to the Influx of Muslim Migration in the West
Leiden University, 13-14 May 2013
Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS)
In Corporation with
King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives in Riyadh
(Encyclopedia of Hajj and the Two Holy Mosques)

European connections to the Hajj have a lengthy history of centuries before the flux of Muslim migration to the West in 1950-1960. During the colonial age in particular, European and Ottoman empires had brought the Hajj under surveillance primarily for political reasons and interests in the control of steamship and the fear for the growth of Pan-Islamic networks. Another important motive for their scrutiny of Hajj was their anxiety for the spread of epidemic diseases in their colonies after the pilgrims’ return.

On the other hand, indigenous Muslims in Central and Eastern Europe, Muslim emigrants (especially in Great Britain, France and somehow in Germany) and European converts to Islam in other parts of Europe, were making their way to the Hajj and had left behind interesting accounts, such as diaries, published and un-published travelogues, press items in European newspapers, etc. European and non-European national and private archives enlist fascinating political, medical, religious and social reports of such narratives.

Having this background in mind, the symposium will invite a group of scholars in order to investigate these European connections with the Hajj on these various levels. A particular focus will be placed on new research methods and results on the basis on national and personal archives and contemporary writings that so far have widely been ignored in the study of Hajj as part of European history. Among the questions which will be addressed: What do first-hand primary sources (especially archives) tell us about the European political perception of the Hajj? How did the international character of the Hajj as a Muslim sacred ritual influence European policies in their struggle for supremacy on the Muslim world? How did Muslims in Europe experience the logistic, economic, religious and spiritual aspects of the Hajj?

Participants are expected to collect materials and analyze such themes as:
1) the Hajj-related documents and written works  in European states,
2) Hajj  travelogues, routes, means of transport, logistic situations and hygienic problems,
3) habits, festivities, social status and traditions observed upon preparing for the Hajj journey,
4) the socio-political, cultural and economic effects of Hajj on the pilgrims and their European homelands.

If you are willing to participate, please send us a provisional title and one page summary of the paper you intend to deliver before November 15, 2012; to u.ryad@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
We would also like to point out that it is our intention to publish a selection of the conference. We expect the full paper for the workshop no later than April 10, 2013. We are happy to fund your return flight/train (economy class/second class) and your hotel
accommodation.

Warm regards,
On behalf of the Organizers
Dr. Umar Ryad
Assistant Professor – Islam in the Modern World
Institute for Religious Studies
Faculty of Humanities
Leiden University
PO Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
Office: + 31 (0) 71 5272568
Homepage:

http://www.hum.leiden.edu/religion/organisation/institute-staff/ryad.html

Few places still available – Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion

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A few conference places and travel bursaries (for post-graduate students) are still available for the conference on DigitalMethodologies in the Sociology of Religion.
To register to attend the event, please visi
http://unishop.derby.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?modid=1&prodid=592&deptid=76&compid=1&prodvarid=0&catid=77 (Conference attendance has been subsidised by a grant from Digital Social Research <http://www.digitalsocialresearch.net/wordpress/> (DSR) and there is reduced registration charge of £30 + £6 VAT).
To apply for a travel bursary please contact us

Sariya & Suha

Dr Sariya Contractor Postdoctoral Researcher | Centre for Society, Religion & Belief<http://www.derby.ac.uk/health/social-care/research-groups/society-religion-and-belief-research-group> Faculty of Education, Health and Sciences | University of Derby Kedleston Road | Derby | DE22 1GB Tel: 01332 591558 | Email: S.Contractor@derby.ac.uk

Socrel / HEA Symposium Religion and Citizenship: Rethinking the Boundaries of Religion and the Secular

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Socrel / HEA Teaching and Studying Religion, 2nd Annual Symposium: Religion and Citizenship: Re-Thinking the Boundaries of Religion and the Secular

BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London
13 December 2012, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Religions today are implicated in a wide variety of publics. From contests over the environment and democracy to protests against capitalism, religions remain important factors in political and public life across diverse, and interconnected, global contexts. A variety of diverse responses have been articulated to the so-called ‘return of religion’ in the public sphere, drawing into question relations between the religious, the non-religious and the secular. As scholars have developed new theoretical understandings of the terms of these debates and questioned how these are bound up with cultural conceptualizations of citizenship, education – in schools, universities and less formal educational contexts – has often been a site where contestations of the religious and the secular have been acutely felt. The aim of this symposium is to consider the interrelation between conceptions of the religious, the secular, citizenship and education, and to explore how these issues affect the study of religion in higher education. To find out more about how participants from a variety of disciplines and contexts have engaged with these issues, join us on December 13 at the BSA Meeting Room in London, for a BSA Socrel symposium, organized by Paul-François Tremlett (Open University), Anna Strhan (University of Kent) and Abby Day (University of Kent and Chair of Socrel). It won’t be your usual ‘stand-and-deliver’ event. Our presenters are working hard to condense their work into short summaries that will be distributed to all participants in advance of the day via e-mail. All participants will be expected to read the summaries and come prepared for a full day of engaging in vibrant exchanges across disciplines, countries, methods and other conventional boundaries.
Total delegate numbers are restricted to 30. Last year’s inaugural symposium was oversubscribed, and early registration is encouraged. Registration for the symposium is now available on the BSA website at http://portal.britsoc.co.uk/public/event/eventBooking.aspx?id=EVT10230
Information on the venue location and transport links, is available at
http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/london-meeting-room.aspx
For any further information, please contact Anna Strhan (A.H.B.Strhan@kent.ac.uk<mailto:A.H.B.Strhan@kent.ac.uk>), Paul-François Tremlett (p.f.tremlett@open.ac.uk<mailto:p.f.tremlett@open.ac.uk>) and Abby Day (A.F.Day@kent.ac.uk<mailto:A.F.Day@kent.ac.uk>).
The full programme for the day will be published on the BSA Socrel website: http://www.socrel.org.uk/
Keynote lecture by Nasar Meer, Reader in Sociology, Northumbria University

Confirmed Speakers:
Discussants: Lois Lee (University of Kent), Paul-François Tremlett (Open University), Mujadad Zaman (University of Cambridge)
Presenters
Carool Kersten (King’s College, London) Indonesian Debates on Secularity and Religiosity: Islamists, Liberal Muslims, and Islamic Post-Traditionalists
Angela Quartermaine (University of Warwick) Investigating Warwickshire pupils’ perceptions of religious forms of terrorism Trevor Stack (University of Aberdeen) Getting Beyond Religion as an Issue for Citizenship
Steven Kettell (University of Warwick) Barbarians at the Gates? Exploring the Rise of ‘Militant Secularism’
Rodrigo Cespedes Proto (Lancaster University) A Legal Perspective on Teaching and Studying Religion: Lessons from the European Court of Human Rights
Leni Franken (University of Antwerp) Religious and Citizenship Education in Belgium / Flanders
Olav Hovdelien (Oslo University College of Applied Sciences) A Secularist School in a Multicultural Society – The Norwegian Case
Slawomir Sztajer (Adam Mickiewicz University) Confessional Religious Education in State Schools: The Case of Poland
Simeon Wallis (University of Warwick) Faith beyond Belief in Religious Education
Graeme Smith (University of Chichester) Blurring the Boundaries: A critical evaluation of the concept of ‘resonance’ and its importance for understanding the relationship between the religious and the secular through the early work of Reinhold Niebuhr
Christos Tsironis (Aristotle University of Thessalonika) Perceptions of Greek students on the relation between the study of religion and volunteering
Kit Kirkland (University of St Andrews) The Christian Right’s Influence on Higher Education

Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion – Registration Open

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Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion http://www.derby.ac.uk/digital-methodologies-in-the-sociology-of-religion 16th November 2012, Enterprise Centre, University of Derby

Organised by the Centre for Society, Religion & Belief<http://www.derby.ac.uk/health/social-care/research-groups/society-religion-and-belief-research-group> (SRB), University of Derby

Funded by Digital Social Research<http://www.digitalsocialresearch.net/wordpress/> (DSR)

To book your place please visit http://unishop.derby.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.aspmodid=1&prodid=592&deptid=76&compid=1&prodvarid=0&catid=77

This conference is generously subsidised by Digital Social Research. There is a small registration fee of £30 (+ £6 VAT)

Within an era of a growing reliance on digital technologies to instantly and effectively express our values, allegiances, and multi-faceted identities, the interest in digital research methodologies among Sociologists of Religion comes as no surprise (e.g. Bunt 2009; Cantoni and Zyga 2007; Contractor 2012 and Ostrowski 2006; Taylor 2003). However the methodological challenges associated with such research have been given significantly less attention. What are the epistemological underpinnings and rationale for the use ‘digital’ methodologies? What ethical dilemmas do sociologists face, including while protecting participants’ interests in digital contexts that are often perceived as anonymised and therefore ‘safe’? Implementing such ‘digital’ research also leads to practical challenges such as mismatched expectations of IT skills, limited access to specialized tools, project management and remote management of research processes. Hosted by the Centre for Society, Religion, and Belief at the University of Derby and funded by Digital Social Research, this conference brings together scholars to critically evaluate the uses, impacts, challenges and future of Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion.

Please forward this to your invitation to your professional networks and to your students. A few travel bursaries are available for post-graduate students in the UK. Please write to either Sariya Contractor (s.contractor@derby.ac.uk<mailto:s.contractor@derby.ac.uk>) or Suha Shakkour (s.shakkour@derby.ac.uk<mailto:s.shakkour@derby.ac.uk>) for further details.

Plenary Speakers:
Prof. Heidi Campbell, Texas A&M University Methodological Challenges, Innovations and Growing Pains in Digital Religion Research
Dr. Eric Atwell, Leeds University Applying Artificial Intelligence to the Understanding of Islam

Draft Programme
09:45 – 10:15 Registration & Refreshments

10:15 – 10:40 Welcome, Introduction and Housekeeping
Dr. Sariya Contractor & Dr. Suha Shakkour
Prof. Paul Weller, Head of Research and Commercial Development, EHS
Dr. Kristin Aune, Director, Centre for Society, Religion & Belief

10:40 – 11:25 Plenary: Methodological Challenges, Innovations and Growing Pains in Digital Religion Research Prof. Heidi Campbell, Texas A&M University

11:25 – 12:40 Social Networking Sites
Anti-Social networking: Facebook as a site and method for researching anti-Muslim and anti-Islam oppositionDr. Chris Allen, University of Birmingham
Role of Digital Communication Technology in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Lead Revolution in Egypt Dr. Abul Hassan & Prof. Toseef Azid, Markfield Institute of Higher Education
Ethical Challenges of researching Muslim women’s closed religious newsgroups Dr. Anna Piela, Independent Researcher

12:40 – 13:40 Lunch

13:40 – 14:55 Digital Resources and Tools
Surveying the Religious and the Non-Religious        Dr. Tristram Hooley & Prof. Paul Weller, University of Derby Research Approaches to the Digital Bible         Dr. Tim Hutchings, Durham University
Employing Distance Learning to Improve the Quantity and Quality of Islamic Studies Dr Muhammad Mesbahi, Islamic College & Morteza Rezaei-Zadeh, University of Limerick

14:55 – 15:40 Plenary: Applying Artificial Intelligence to the Understanding of Islam
Eric Atwell, Leeds University

15:40 – 15:55 Refreshments

15:55 – 17:10 Communication
Prospects and Limits for Mxit and Mobi Methodologies for Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa Dr. Federico Settler, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Researching Religious Discourses Online: Some thoughts on method Thomas Alberts, SOAS
The Online Communication Model: A theoretical Framework to Analyse the Institutional Communication on the Internet Juan Narbona & Dr. Daniel Arasa, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

17:10 – 17:30 Concluding Comments, Publication Plans

Dr Sariya Contractor & Dr. Suha Shakkour Centre for Society, Religion & Belief<http://www.derby.ac.uk/health/social-care/research-groups/society-religion-and-belief-research-group> University of Derby

Changing Religious Movements in a Changing World

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The 2013 CESNUR Conference co-organized by Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) International Society for the Study of New Religions (ISSNR) Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University Finyar (The Nordic Network for the Study of New Religiosity) Dalarna University

CHANGING RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN A CHANGING WORLD Dalarna University Falun (Sweden), 21-24 June 2013

http://www.cesnur.org/2013/swe-cfp.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS
2013 celebrates the 25th anniversary of the first CESNUR conference, held in Southern Italy in 1988, and the opening of INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements) in the UK.
How has the religious scenario evolved within the context of a changing world over the past 25 years? How are religious movements different today? How does society react differently to religious pluralism?
These will be the themes of the 2013 conference, with special attention being paid to the Nordic countries, contemporary spiritual and esoteric movements in a globalized and transnational perspective, and the reactions of the media, the mainline churches, the law and society in general to the new religious pluralism. The conference will start on Midsummer Night’s Eve, Friday 21 June 2013, when participants will congregate in Stockholm in the morning and board a bus for a field trip that will take them to culturally significant locations throughout the Swedish region of Dalarna. Dalarna is famous for its small and picturesque villages, beautiful nature, traditional culture and handicraft. We will first visit Falun’s World Heritage Site and the 17th century part of the town. At that time, Falun was one of the most important towns in Sweden because of its copper mine. Then we will continue to the old traditional villages around Lake Siljan, stopping on our way at some other places of traditional and cultural importance. The journey will culminate with a traditional Swedish Midsummer Feast in the village of Leksand, before our arrival in Falun late that evening.

The sessions of the conference will run from the morning of Saturday 22 June to the morning of Monday 24 June. On Monday 24 June buses will leave Falun at lunchtime (box lunches will be provided), taking participants either directly to Arlanda Airport in Stockholm or to a visit to Kalle Runristare, a neo-Pagan rune-carver on an island outside Stockholm. This island, Adelsö, is a World Heritage Site with historical importance, where the king lived in the Viking era. The journey ends in Stockholm in the evening. In this package is included the field trip (including meals) on Friday, lunches from Saturday to Monday, the reception on Saturday night, and the journey back to Arlanda/Stockholm on Monday. Price: 220 euro.

An option will be offered for those who only want to participate in the conference, have the lunches on Saturday and Sunday and attend the banquet on Sunday evening as well as the reception on Saturday night.
Participants opting for this package will not be included in any of the field trips and these participants will have to make their own arrangements to reach and leave Falun by train and plan their transfers privately. Price: 120 euro.

Option 1

Full package, including transportation from Arlanda airport, Stockholm, the field trip on Friday (including meals); lunches; the reception on Saturday evening and the banquet on Sunday evening and either transportation back to Arlanda only or the field trip with arrival in Stockholm on Monday evening: Euro 220.

Option 2:

Conference attendance only, including lunch on Saturday and Sunday, the Saturday reception and the Sunday banquet (but no field trips or transportation) at: Euro 120.

Papers and sessions proposals should be submitted by email before the close of business on 10 January 2013 to cesnur_to@virgilio.it, accompanied by an abstract of no more than 300 words and a CV of no more than 200 words. Proposals may be submitted either in English or in French.

Travelling

We urge you to make your travelling and lodging arrangements as early as possible, as midsummer is a very important holiday in Sweden. Journeys will be cheaper and more available if you book early. For those who arrange their own train journey between Arlanda and Falun, please observe that it is possible to buy train tickets from about three months before the journey, and that the tickets from that time on becomes increasingly expensive. See www.sj.se .

Lodging

Scandic Hotel, just beside the university, is offering special prices for our conference guests. The price, inclusive of a generous breakfast, is 700 SEK for a single room (en suite), 800 SEK for a double room (en suite). To get this price, please write the code “Changing Religious Movements”. See http://www.scandichotels.com/ Hotels/Countries/Sweden/Falun/ Hotels/Scandic-Lugnet/ . Write to falun@scandichotels.com A cheaper option is an old prison which has been converted into a youth hostel. Three nights, inclusive of breakfast, in a single room, costs 1250 SEK (sharing a common bathroom). Rooms with several beds cost 950 SEK per person for three nights. To get this price, write the code “Changing Religious Movements”. See http://www.falufangelse.se/ Write to info@falufangelse.se The youth hostel is situated about a 20-minute walk from the university, but is, on the other hand, closer to the town center.

Registration for the conference will open on 15 February 2013.