Call For Abstracts: Workshop on Forced Migration & Human Trafficking

The Pardee Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking, located at Boston University, is issuing a call for abstracts for their upcoming workshop, Mobility, Time and Political Possibilities. The workshop is year-long, running from early 2021 and culminating in an in-person event in early 2022. The group envisages a small but committed group of scholars […]

Call for Papers: COVID-19, Disease, and the World Church

In the midst of a pandemic that is shaking the globe we call for papers for a special issue of Studies in World Christianity  that analyse immediate responses to COVID-19 and that give some historical perspective on pandemics or epidemics. We do this in order to resource further response to pandemic whose effects will be with us for some […]

The Archives of the Holy See

Winter Workshop: The Archives of the Holy See: an Introduction,  Rome, 20th -24th January 2020 Organized by the Sangalli Institute The seminar will include lectures/laboratories on the following topics: Introduction to Archival Research in Rome; The Vatican Secret Archives: Brief History and Structure; Archival Research in the Archives of the Fabbrica di San Pietro; Archival […]

Call for Proposals: China, Christianity, and the Dialogue of Civilizations

The US-China Catholic Association will host a conference on “China, Christianity, and the Dialogue of Civilizations” to take place March 13-15, 2020 on the campus of Santa Clara University. This conference will examine efforts to locate engagement between Christianity and Chinese civilization in the context of shared values and the common good. See conference homepage […]

Yale-Edinburgh 2020: Oral, Print, and Digital Cultures in World Christianity and the History of Mission

Studies in world Christianity and the history of mission have not been afraid to engage the topic of culture. However, they have mostly referred to the encounters of Western Christian cultures with another, whether that be Confucian and Hindu culture, or the indigenous cultures of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania. This year’s theme uses the […]

Second International Conference on Bartolomé de Las Casas

July 15-16, 2016 Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island USA The second international conference on Bartolomé de Las Casas will focus on how his life, labor, and legacy offers a prism for the interpretation of the interaction, expansion, culture, and ancestry of Indigenous people, Africans, Europeans and Asians in the American Hemisphere. The organizers programmed this […]

Human Trafficking Conference

CCARHT 2019 Symposium Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking @ Centre for Social Innovation Judge Business School University of Cambridge 1st – 5th July The several Rs of Trafficking (6th July Research Day – for rising academics) The CCARHT Summer Symposium is up and running. Here at the Centre we are busy assembling […]