{"id":242,"date":"2022-10-24T23:02:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T20:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionandculturalchange\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2024-10-11T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:55:42","slug":"previous-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/previous-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Religion: Memory and Innovation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The summer school and conference 12\u201315 June, 2023<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-291\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2022\/10\/cropped-turku-old-town-1-photo-terri-vahtera-scaled-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2022\/10\/cropped-turku-old-town-1-photo-terri-vahtera-scaled-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2022\/10\/cropped-turku-old-town-1-photo-terri-vahtera-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2022\/10\/cropped-turku-old-town-1-photo-terri-vahtera-scaled-1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2022\/10\/cropped-turku-old-town-1-photo-terri-vahtera-scaled-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/previous-events\/2023-rmi\/\">Program and keynote speakers<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">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.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">We invite papers that\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">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.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">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\u201315 June) following the summer school (12\u201313 June). Participants in the summer school are welcome to take part of the conference without conference papers.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">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:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journal.fi\/ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">https:\/\/journal.fi\/ar<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"en-GB\">.<\/span>\u00a0For further information, please see the conference publication page.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">To apply, please send an abstract of approximately 150 words <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">no later than <strong>6 February, 2023<\/strong> through the abstract submission link. Letters of acceptance will be posted <strong>within February, 2023<\/strong>. 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 <strong>7 May, 2023<\/strong>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">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.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Religion and Cultural Change<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The summer school and conference ONLINE EVENT <\/strong><strong>7\u20139 June, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-243\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionandculturalchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2022\/10\/cropped-Aura_RCC-300x86.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/previous-events\/2021-rcc\/\">Program and keynote speakers<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">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.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">We invite papers that\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">engage with the theme Religion and Cultural Change from both historical and contemporary perspectives, also looking to the future where possible. We understand cultural change 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.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">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 sessions running parallel to the summer school. Additionally, thematic discussion groups open\u00a0for all\u00a0participants will be organized.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">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:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journal.fi\/ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">https:\/\/journal.fi\/ar<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"en-GB\">.<\/span>\u00a0For further information, please see the\u00a0conference publication page.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">To apply, please send an abstract of approximately 150 words\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">no later than\u00a0<strong>30\u00a0January, 2021<\/strong>. Letters of acceptance will be posted no later than\u00a0<strong>28\u00a0February, 2021<\/strong>. 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\u00a0<strong>1 May, 2021<\/strong>.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion: Memory and Innovation The summer school and conference 12\u201315 June, 2023 Program and keynote speakers The aim of this summer school and conference is to bring together doctoral candidates and researchers from various academic fields that engage with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/previous-events\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/religionsummerschoolandconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}