Category: Calls for Papers (CFPs)

Deadline: January 30, 2026

Call for Submissions: Religious Trauma Symposium Harvard Divinity School April 16-17, 2026

Scope: Religious trauma, defined here as lingering harm within religious and spiritual contexts which creates barriers to physical, emotional, existential, social, psychological, developmental, and spiritual wellbeing, is a subject of mounting scholarly and popular attention with direct implications for the challenges of modernity. Recent work on religious disaffiliation (McLaughlin et al.), religious “dones” (Van Tongeren), and spiritual struggles (Excline) highlights the influence of religious trauma in demographic changes around the world, particularly in the United States. Yet despite academic and professional interest across fields as diverse as psychology, education, and religious studies growing in tandem with parallel discourses among survivors and religious practitioners alike, there has yet to be an event designed to bring these various circles into direct dialogue with one another.

Deadline: January 23, 2026

The Slavic Reference Service and the American University of Central Asia are collaborating to host the 4^th Annual Central Asia Research Forum. This online forum aims to bring together scholars in all disciplines and stages of the research process to discuss the theme of Central Asia on film. Since the 1930s, cinema in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan has experienced numerous shifts and rebirths that have documented cultural, social, and political changes in the region.

Deadline: January 12, 2026

The Twenty-Sixth Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop, to be held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on April 23-25, 2026, welcomes papers on Czech and Slovak topics, broadly defined, in all disciplines. In the past, our interdisciplinary conference has drawn participants from colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Areas of interest have been anthropology, architecture, art, economics, education, film, geography, history, Jewish studies, literature, music, philosophy, politics, religion, society, sociology, and theater. Work in progress is an appropriate format for our workshop. Junior faculty and advanced graduate students are particularly encouraged to apply. Hotel accommodation will be provided for participants who are presenting at the workshop, and some travel assistance will be provided to those in financial need.