• Religion and the Far Right

    Psy­cho­log­i­cal Insti­tute of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tübin­gen Schle­ich­str. 4, Tübin­gen, Ger­many

    Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence — Reg­is­tra­tion is open until July 20, 2026.

  • Summer School for Cultural and Social Studies (ESSCSS)

    Max-Weber-Kol­leg Max-Weber-Allee 3, Erfurt, Deutsch­land

    Reli­gion and Soci­ety: Com­mu­ni­ties, Pow­er Rela­tions, and Mate­ri­alites The Sum­mer School is aimed at ear­ly-career researchers in the his­tor­i­cal sci­ences, reli­gious stud­ies, and relat­ed dis­ci­plines (such as cul­tur­al anthro­pol­o­gy or lit­er­ary stud­ies). With­in the frame­work of the Sum­mer School, ques­tions of the dis­tri­b­u­tion of pow­er in past soci­eties will be brought into focus, among them […]

  • IAHR Workshop: Study of Religion Without an Object? Global Perspectives

    Tar­tu , Esto­nia

    The event is orga­nized by the Eston­ian Soci­ety for the Study of Reli­gions in coop­er­a­tion with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tar­tu and is an offi­cial Sum­mer School of the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion for the His­to­ry of Reli­gions (IAHR), with par­tial fund­ing from the IAHR. This work­shop aims to bring togeth­er both the­o­ret­i­cal reflec­tions as well as spe­cif­ic […]

  • Eating and drinking with gods: a comparative workshop

    Gronin­gen , Nether­lands

    Nar­ra­tives and prac­tices of offer­ing hos­pi­tal­i­ty to the divine have a place in numer­ous reli­gions past and present. Across geo­gra­phies and periods,gods and oth­er invis­i­ble beings are offered human food and drink in human settings.Buddhism, Hin­duism, Judaism and Chris­tian­i­ty today, and Grae­co-Roman, Hit­tite and Egypt­ian reli­gions in antiq­ui­ty, are just some of the reli­gions that […]

  • First International Congress of Studies on Popular Cultures in Greece and Rome, from II millennium BCE to modern folklore

    Uni­ver­sità di Roma Tre via Ostiense 236, Roma, Italy

     Although Greek and Roman lit­er­a­ture rarely focus­es explic­it­ly on pop­u­lar cul­ture, a sub­stan­tial body of evi­dence allows us to recon­struct what may be described as the folk­lore of the ancient world. From pre­cious tes­ti­monies emerge beliefs and ‘super­sti­tions’, folk­tales and proverbs, imag­i­nary beings, songs and oth­er types of musi­cal forms, folk-phar­ma­copoeia and med­i­c­i­nal reme­dies, apotropa­ic ges­tures and […]

  • 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) | Regional Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR)

    Insti­tute for the His­to­ry of Reli­gions, Bucharest Calea 13 Sep­tem­brie nr. 13, Bucharest, Roma­nia

    The Bucharest 2026 Con­gress will be the 22nd Con­fer­ence of EASR and the 2026 Region­al Con­fer­ence of IAHR. Under these most promi­nent aus­pices world­wide, we invite schol­ars from across the world to reflect upon and con­tribute towards the broad pur­pose, past and per­spec­tives of the aca­d­e­m­ic study of reli­gions with­in the human­i­ties as well as […]

  • God, Human, Machine: Images and Imaginations of Religion in the Age of AI

    Uni­ver­sität Erfurt

    The con­fer­ence draws atten­tion to the hith­er­to large­ly neglect­ed aes­thet­ic, eth­i­cal, and intel­lec­tu­al impli­ca­tions of AI-gen­er­at­ed imagery in reli­gious con­texts. We invite schol­ars and researchers to sub­mit paper pro­pos­als that crit­i­cal­ly exam­ine how AI tech­nolo­gies are reshap­ing reli­gious images and imag­i­na­tions across tra­di­tions, cul­tures, and social con­texts. We seek con­tri­bu­tions, which explore the ways in […]

  • 11th International Conference of the International Association of Manichaean Studies

    Istan­bul Medeniyet Uni­ver­si­ty

    Call for papers for the 11th Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence of the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Manichaean Stud­ies, Istan­bul Medeniyet Uni­ver­si­ty, 21–25 Sep­tem­ber 2026 (details at: https://www.manichaeism.de/)   The idea of form­ing the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Manichaean Stud­ies (IAMS) was advanced at the First Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence of Manichaean Stud­ies held in Lund in 1987. The suc­cess of the […]

  • Foundations & Fluidity — 20th Anniversary Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC)

    Casa Artom, Venedig, Ital­ien Dor­so­duro, 699/700, Venezia VE, Italy

    20th Anniver­sary Con­fer­ence of the Inter­na­tion­al Soci­ety for the Study of Reli­gion, Nature, and Cul­ture (ISSRNC) Octo­ber 10–14, 2026 | Casa Artom, Venice, Italy Dead­line for Pro­pos­als | March 15, 2026 Foun­da­tions and Flu­id­i­ty will mark the 20th anniver­sary of the Inter­na­tion­al Soci­ety for the Study of Reli­gion, Nature, and Cul­ture (ISSRNC)—a mile­stone not only […]

  • 20th Anniversary Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC)

    Casa Artom, Venedig, Ital­ien Dor­so­duro, 699/700, Venezia VE, Italy

    Foun­da­tions and Flu­id­i­ty will mark the 20th anniver­sary of the Inter­na­tion­al Soci­ety for the Study of Reli­gion, Nature, and Cul­ture (ISSRNC)—a mile­stone not only for the Soci­ety but also for the emerg­ing field of Reli­gion and Nature/Ecology. Over the past two decades, this field has matured into a vibrant area of inter­dis­ci­pli­nary schol­ar­ship, with sev­er­al grad­u­ate […]

  • Religious Literacy and Religious Pluralism: New Directions for Research

    Uni­ver­si­ty of Helsin­ki Fabi­aninkatu 33, Helsin­ki, Fin­land

    This mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary sym­po­sium brings togeth­er inter­na­tion­al experts on reli­gious lit­er­a­cy and reli­gious plu­ral­ism to dis­cuss future direc­tions in the field. Some of the ques­tions we seek to exam­ine include (but are not lim­it­ed to): How to best define reli­gious lit­er­a­cy? Does reli­gious lit­er­a­cy work and how can we know if it works? What is the […]

  • ISMRC Conference 2027

    The 15th Bien­ni­al Con­fer­ence on Media, Reli­gion, and Cul­ture will take place from 3–6 August 2027 at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich. Host­ed by the URPP Dig­i­tal Religion(s) in asso­ci­a­tion with the Inter­na­tion­al Soci­ety for Media, Reli­gion, and Cul­ture, the con­fer­ence will bring togeth­er inter­na­tion­al keynote speak­ers, dis­cus­sion pan­els, and oppor­tu­ni­ties for exchange across dis­ci­plines. We invite […]