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