Category Archives: Call for Papers

From: Iza Hussin
To: Section 11: Religion and Politics

Call for Papers: Social Science History Association Religion Network

Social Science History Association 2014 Annual Conference
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 6-9, 2014
Conference Theme: "Inequalities: Politics, Policy, and the Past"

SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The Religion Network of the Social Science History Association invites proposals for papers, panels, and book sessions for the 39th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association in Toronto, Ontario, November 6-9, 2014. We also are looking for volunteers to serve as panel chairs and discussants.

The SSHA is the leading interdisciplinary association for historical research in the US, providing a stimulating venue for explorations of how social processes unfold over time. The Religion Network serves as the home within the organization for scholars interested in religious history, religious mobilization, religious change, and religion's effect on social and political processes. Our network is interdisciplinary and cross-national in scope, and embraces all scholarship that examines how religion intersects with other social processes in historical perspective.

We encourage the participation of graduate students and recent PhDs as well as more established scholars from a wide range of disciplines and departments. Graduate students are eligible to apply for financial support to attend the annual meeting (see http://www.ssha.org/grants). Further details about the association, the 2014 annual meeting, and the call for proposals are available on the SSHA website: www.ssha.org.

The deadline for paper and/or panel submissions is February 14th, 2014.

We welcome and encourage papers and panel proposals on a wide array of issues related to the historical study of religion and religious movements. While complete panel proposals (consisting of 4-5 individual papers, a chair, and a discussant) are preferred, we also seek out high-quality individual paper submissions. Panels and papers may address the topics below, or any other relevant and related topic examining religion in a historical context:

• Religion and Policy Development
• Church/State Relations
• Religion and Social Inequality
• Religion and Politics
• Religion and Social Movements
• Religion and Law
• Religion, Migration, and Identity
• Religion and Nationalism
• Secularization and Secularism
• Religion and Empire
• Missionaries and Social Change
• Religion and Space

Please use the SSHA's web conference management system to submit your papers and panel proposals. Paper title, brief abstract, and contact information should be submitted on the site http://conference.ssha.org/. Please do not hesitate to contact the Religion Network representatives with any questions, comments, or for help with submissions.

Thank you, and we look forward to a stimulating set of panels at this year's SSHA meeting.

Damon Mayrl (dmayrl@clio.uc3m.es) Sam Nelson (scnelson0@gmail.com) SSHA Religion Network Representatives

April 10-12, 2014

Saint Anselm College
Manchester, NH

The issue of the relationship between the Church and the political order has been of perennial interest to Catholic thinkers. Saint Augustine famously spoke of the City of God and the City of Man, and in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries Saint Anselm fought for the institutional independence of the Church in Normandy and England. It remains an issue of great historical, cultural, educational, political and moral significance. The conference looks to explore the issue both historically and systematically. Thus, we encourage papers on Saint Anselm, his sources and intellectual descendants, but also on the fundamental questions of how Church and state, religion and culture, and most broadly faith and reason are related.

Please send on abstract of 100-200 words to mbrown@anselm.edu by December 1, 2013. Proposals for panels with up to three papers are also welcome. The Saint Anselm Lecture by Prof. Robert George, Princeton University, will be on Thursday evening. Panel sessions will be on Friday and Saturday.

Dear Dr. Iza Hussin,

It is with great pleasure that
I write to inform you of an upcoming workshop, jointly convened by the American
Political Science Association (APSA) and the Institute for Governance and Development
(IGD) in Burkina Faso. APSA is accepting applications for participation through
March 15, 2013 and would appreciate your help in sharing news of this opportunity.

The 2013 Africa Workshop, entitled “Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective”
will be held from July 1 to 12 at the IGD’s Center for Democratic Governance.
Led by a joint team of US and African scholars, this event is a unique professional
opportunity for early-to-mid career faculty with an interest in social science
research. Since this year’s workshop will be a dual-language program, both French-speaking
and English-speaking scholars are welcome to apply.

Visit the APSA Africa Workshop website to find program information,
eligibility requirements, and a link to the online 2013 Application Form (also available in French). The application deadline
is March 15, 2013.  

The 2013 workshop is the sixth
in APSA’s annual Africa Workshop program; previous workshops have been held
in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, and Tanzania. By bringing together up to 22
Africa-based scholars, as well as four advanced PhD students from US-based universities,
the program aims to support political science research and teaching in Sub-Saharan
Africa and strengthen research networks linking US scholars with their colleagues
overseas. While the event primarily caters to political scientists, it is also
open to scholars from any social science discipline with research relevant to
the workshop theme. Since 2008, approximately 140 African and US-based scholars
have taken part in the workshop series. APSA, with support from the Mellon Foundation,
covers all costs associated with participation.

Participants at this year’s
workshop will explore a series of interrelated theoretical and methodological
themes in the study of religion as a political factor. The primary goal of the
workshop is to support participants in publishing their research.

If you
meet the eligibility requirements and are engaged in work related to this workshop’s
theme, I welcome you to submit an application. Please also feel free to forward
this information and share news of this opportunity as appropriate. APSA is continuously
seeking to attract promising scholars to the Workshops. We would particularly
like to increase the number of applications submitted by women.

If you
have any questions or comments, please contact africaworkshops@apsanet.org.
PDF copies of the Call for Applications are also available: Download
the call in French or Download the call in English. 

Sincerely,

Dr Elizabeth H. Super

APSA
Fellow and Associate Director for International Programs

Message forwarded by the Chair:

Dear professor Hussin,

My name is Ali Kadivar, a PhD candidate at UNC-CH sociology. A colleague of mine and I are organizing a Panel in the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting 2013 in New Orleans. We thought some of the members of the religion and politics section in APSA would be interested in this panel. I would greatly appreciate it if you forward this call for paper to the APSA religion and politics listserve. Thanks very much.
Sincerely,

Ali

Greetings everyone,
We Are seeking participants for a panel for the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, MESA 2013: "Religious Authorities and Political Transitions in the Middle East".
Different socio-political actors have taken various positions with regards to the recent political upheavals in the Middle East. Several actors joined the opposition against the authoritarian governments; some sided with the regimes; few preferred silence anxiously observing the developments while others preferred to remain impartial. Religious establishments which have been one of the oldest social institutions in Middle Eastern societies are still are a key player. Their complicated relationship with the political authorities have taken different forms in different periods, ranging from opposition and repression to cooptation, withdrawal, and measured autonomy among others. In the last episode of contention in the Middle East, we also observe such variation, which gives rise to questions of interest include but are not limited to:
– How could we describe the political position of the religious authorities in each country? And what factors have been influential in shaping such positions?
– In cases when the religious actors supported or joined pro-democracy movements, what can we infer about the broader topic of religion and democratization?
– How the political positions of religious actors facilitated or constrained the process of mobilization?
– What role did the religious vocabularies play in the political rhetoric of contention as well as the repository of emotions and affects?

At least, one paper, is already in place explaining different political positions that Grand Ayatollahs took about Iran’s Green Movement in 2009.
We are looking to recruit up to three further papers.  If you are interested in being involved in this panel, please send a 400-word
abstract to Ali Kadivar (kadivar@unc.edu) or Ali Reza Eshraghi (eshraghi@email.unc.edu) no later than 9 February, and be prepared to register with and submit to MESA no later than 15 February.

Ali Kadivar
Associate Editor at Social Forces
PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill