Conferences
3–5 September 2018, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Borders and Boundaries: ‘Religion’ on the Periphery
Call for Papers
Joint Conference between the British Association for the Study of Religions and the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions 3–5 September 2018, Queen's University, Belfast
Held in Association with the Religious Studies Research Forum at the Institute of Theology and the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics.
Keynote Speakers
Gladys Ganiel (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Naomi Goldenberg (University of Ottawa)
Borders and boundaries define limits and margins, centres and peripheries. They demarcate territories, and separate entities and bodies and, as such, they function to guard space, limit action and exclude. They are, however, also contact zones and places of exchange, the ‘limen’ or threshold, the in-between, and the places of temptation and transgression. In the current political context when Ireland and the UK are faced with the dilemmas, paradoxes and implications of Brexit, this special joint conference of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR) and the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (ISASR) invites paper, research slam, panel and roundtable proposals on the theme of Borders and Boundaries. Scholars based outside the Republic of Ireland or the UK are invited to submit proposals related to this theme regardless of whether their work relates to these islands. Scholars who are based in the UK or the Republic of Ireland and are working on religion and related categories are welcome to submit proposals on any topic whether or not it relates to the conference theme. Deadline for proposals for papers, panels and the research slam: 27 April 2018。 See overleaf for further details.
A small number of bursaries for postgraduate students and ECRs will be available.
https://basrblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/basr-isasr-flyer-final.pdf
