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  • BASR 2024 Conference

    BASR 2024 Conference

    REGISTRATION CLOSED

    Please note we will not be charging for those presenting online, so there is no need to register. However, we would be grateful if you could confirm that you will be presenting. Please also note that the timings for the conference are in British Summer Time (the local time zone for the conference location).

    British Association for the Study of Religions Annual Conference 

    September 2-4, 2024 

    Reckoning with the Past  

    University of Leeds 

    Sponsored by the CenSAMM and the Hibbert Trust 

    The academic study of religion, with its roots in a variety of scholarly disciplines, is currently in a state of reassessment in terms of its history, relationship with colonialism, and problematic frameworks of ‘religion’. This year’s BASR conference, sponsored by the Hibbert Trust and CenSAMM, brings together scholars to reckon with the past – from a variety of perspectives. As well as current issues in how groups are reckoning with their own problematic histories, we expect to cover themes such as the decolonisation of religious studies, anti-racist education and education about the slave trade; in addition to the history of religious studies and colonial impacts.  

    Topics will include, but are not limited to: 

    • Decolonising the study of religion 
    • The history of religious studies 
    • Social justice and anti-racist education 
    • Religion and coloniality 
    • Teaching and learning in the study of religion 
    • Religion and the environment 
    • Apocalypticism and millenarianism  
    • Fieldwork and positionality 
    • New directions in the study of religion

    Accommodation will be superior single en suite rooms in the Storm Jameson building.

    The conference will start with lunch on Monday 2nd September and finish with lunch on Wednesday 4th. There will be a walking visit to local places of interest on the Wednesday afternoon for those able to stay later.

    The Full Conference Programme is available below, we hope you will find answers to all of your questions in the programme, but do not hesitate to contact the conference team (basrconference2024@gmail.com) with any questions!

    BASR Annual Conference 2024Download

    Conference Team: 

    Professor Melanie Prideaux, Pro Dean for Student Education, Faculty of Arts Humanities and Cultures

    Dr Aled Thomas, Teaching Fellow in the Study of Religion 

    Erin Clark, BASR Conference Administrative Assistant

  • 2018 Joint Conference with ISASR

    2018 Joint Conference with ISASR

    We are pleased to announce the first joint annual conference between the BASR and Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (ISASR) to be held at Queen’s University Belfast in association with RSRF and HAPP on 3-5 September 2018, to bring together all scholars working in the academic study of religion/s in the UK, the Republic of Ireland and beyond. The conference theme is Borders and Boundaries: ‘Religion’ on the Periphery, and will feature keynote from Gladys Ganiel (Queen’s University, Belfast) and Naomi Goldenberg (University of Ottawa). Please see here, or the attached PDFs, for more information.

    **The call for papers for this conference has now closed, and the organizers are working on a draft schedule. Registration is open, and will close on 3 August 2018. The link to the booking system is here: https://knock.qub.ac.uk/ecommerce/basr/index.php

    The conference will open around 12.30pm on 3 September, and close around 1.30pm on 5 September. More details to follow.** 

    Call for Papers (PDF)

    A4 Poster (PDF)

     

  • BASR Annual Conference 2017

    BASR Annual Conference 2017

    Theme: Narratives of religion

    Conference dates: 4-6 September 2017

    Keynote (Tuesday 5th September)
    ‘Narratives of Pagan Religion’
    Professor Ronald Hutton

    Call for Papers 

    ‘Narrative’ has emerged as valuable category of analysis in the study of religions. This conference takes narrative as its theme with a view to testing its efficacy and resilience for elucidating constructions of religion.

    The BASR invites colleagues to the University of Chester to contribute papers or panels on the above theme. Papers will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions/discussion. Panels will be 90 minute sessions, to normally include 3 papers. Abstracts for roundtables, poster presentations, and alternative formats are also encouraged – please contact the below email for details. Ideas for papers and panels may include, but are not limited to:

    • Competing narratives
    • Orality and textualisation
    • Ritual and archetypal narratives
    • Representation and reproduction
    • Story, story-telling and communities of story-telling
    • Life-writing, spiritual biography, self-narratives, auto-ethnography
    • Narrative identity
    • Narratives of race, class, age, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, culture, subculture
    • Narratives of religion in fiction, film, media
    • Narratives at the intersection of religion and science (CAM, ayurveda, alchemy etc.)
    • Apocalyptic narratives
    • Official versus popular or subversive narratives
    • Narrative methods and methodologies in the study of religions
    • Curating narratives
    • Narratives of religion in education
    • Grand-, hidden- and meta- narratives
    • Constructing narratives of religion in history, archaeology and other fields

    Abstracts (200 words plus paper title, author name and institutional affiliation in Microsoft Word format) should be submitted to basrconference2017@gmail.com before 30th May 2017. Panels should be submitted in the same way, with details for each paper along with the panel title and the name of the convener/chair.

    If you are an PGT/Taught Masters or early PGR student and wish to present your project for 5-10 minutes there will be a ‘Lightning Talks’ seminar. Please send a proposal of 50 words including a label: ‘Lightning talk’ along with your institutional affiliation, programme, mode of study and year.

    Deadline for paper/panel submissions: 30th May 2017

    Notification of acceptance of papers/panels: No later than 15th June 2017

    Online registration for conference open from: 1st June 2017

    Deadline for registration: 31st July 2017

    A limited number of student bursaries will be made available to support PG students and EC academics to attend the conference. Please see the separate Call for Bursary Applications, which will appear here on the BASR website and mailing list.

    Further updates and announcements, including registration details, will appear here and across social media in due course. For any general enquiries, please contact the Conference Organisers Drs Wendy Dossett, Dawn Llewellyn, Alana Vincent & Steve Knowles on basrconference2017@gmail.com.

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  • BASR Annual Conference 2016

    BASR Annual Conference 2016

    British Association for the Study of Religions Annual Conference

    Theme: ‘Religion Beyond the Textbook’
    Keynote Speaker: Prof. Martin Stringer (Swansea University)

    University of Wolverhampton, 5-7 September 2016
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    People enact, perform and live religion in a multitude of specific contexts, which are studied through a wide range of methods and approaches; and yet mainstream discourse on religion – public, media and textbook – too often reverts to generic, out-dated essentialisms concerning the lives of religious actors and the classification of ‘religion’ itself. However, new methodological approaches are emerging which ensure diverse forms of religion – often contradictory and complicated, offering counter-narratives to the textbook accounts – are understood, which allow different voices to be heard, texts to be re-read, phenomena to be re-interpreted and identity boundaries to be challenged.

    The deadline for paper/panel submissions for the conference has now passed, and registration has closed.

    **Final version of the Programme and Delegate Information, updated 4/9/2016 with last minute amendments** (PDF)

    For any general enquiries, please contact the Conference Organisers, Dr. Stephen E. Gregg & Dr. Opinderjit Takhar on basrconference@gmail.com.

    Information for publishers

    As ever, BASR welcomes our publishing partners to contribute to our annual conference. This year we will be hosted by the University of Wolverhampton and will be situated in the picturesque nineteenth century part of campus. Please complete and return the BASR 2016 Publishers Booking Form to reserve your place. The form includes options for booking, including full stands, and leaflets in the conference registration pack. Please note that whilst simple tables and chairs can be provided, publishers will need to bring display stands or other specialist presentation equipment. A safe and lockable room will be provided for overnight storage on conference days. If you wish your representative to register for the conference (which includes meals and simple campus accommodation), we will waive the cost of your stand.