Religion: Memory and Innovation
The summer school and conference
12–15 June, 2023
The deadline for submitting an abstract has been extended to February 6, 2023.
The aim of this summer school and conference is to bring together doctoral candidates and researchers from various academic fields that engage with the study of religion, such as theology, religious studies, history, philosophy, the arts, social and political sciences and other. We invite papers that engage with the theme Religion: Memory and Innovation from both historical and contemporary perspectives, also looking to the future where possible. We understand memory and innovation both as dramatic breaking points in history and as slowly evolving transformations and will address past, present and emerging trends and trajectories within culture, society and the scholarly community. The societal relevance and impact of our research is also an important theme.
The summer school will consist of working groups, tutored by the keynote presenters and other academic teachers, where doctoral candidates are given the opportunity to present and discuss their ongoing PhD work in a cross-disciplinary, international setting. Postdoctoral and senior researchers will present their papers in the conference (14–15 June) following the summer school (12–13 June). Participants in the summer school are welcome to take part of the conference without conference papers.
Selected papers from the conference will be published as a special issue of the peer-reviewed open access journal Approaching Religion, published by the Donner Institute: https://journal.fi/ar. For further information, please see the conference publication page.
To apply, please send an abstract of approximately 150 words no later than 6 February, 2023 through the abstract submission link. Letters of acceptance will be posted within February, 2023. Upon acceptance to the summer school, doctoral candidates will furthermore be asked to submit a 500-word synopsis of their research theme no later than 7 May, 2023.
Are you interested to participate in the summer school and conference but have no means to do it? The Polin Institute will cover fully or partially costs of participants from low- and middle-income countries. For more information, please see here.