SBL Events
For a list of events related to biblical scholarship, see our online calendar.
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A Calendar of Events for Biblical and Religious Studies
Submit your events to Sharon Johnson.
| May 2013 |
| 5/23 |
Call for Papers Deadline
Producing Christian Culture: Gospel Text and Gospel Commentary in Medieval Perspective
A conference organised under the aegis of the Catholic Studies Centre, Durham Univeristy, the IMRS and Loyola University, and in association with Bedes's World, De Paul University, the Bible Society.Held in conjunction with the exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels during the summer of 2013:4th—6th July 2013
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| 5/30- 6/2 |
St. Ambrose Conference on Bible and Justice
St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa will bring together scholars, clergy, and students from around the world to explore how the ancient texts of the Bible might address a variety of modern justice concerns, with a focus on gender, empire, poverty, and the environment. Along with our keynote speakers, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Richard Horsley, Elsa Tamez, and David Horrell, this conference will work to consider the relevance of the Bible to modern justice issues, while promoting bridges between biblical studies and various endeavors for a just world. A call for abstracts is now open for both professional and undergraduate sessions. For more information, please visit the conference website at:
http://www.sau.edu/Bible_and_Justice_Conference.html |
| June 2013 |
| 6/7 |
Melanesian Association of Theological Schools CFP Deadline
The biennial conference of the Melanesian Association of Theological Schools to be held at the Kefamo Conference Centre, Goroka, 25-28 June 2013. Papers will be accepted in four broad areas of theological enquiry—Old Testament, New Testament, theology (systematic
and historical), and applied theology (ministry, ethics, missiology).
Persons who hold or are currently undertaking a postgraduate degree in a theology-related field are invited to present 30 minute papers which will be followed by five minutes of questions from the audience.
Abstracts of 250 words should be sent by post, fax, or email (as Word attachments) to:
Dr. Scott Charlesworth
School of Theology
Pacific Adventist University
Private Mail Bag
Boroko NCD
Papua New Guinea
(675) 328 0200 / 328 0305 [Tel.]
(675) 328 1257 [Fax]sdchar@gmail.com
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| 6/12- 6/16 |
AAUP's Conference on the State of Higher Education
The American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) Annual Conference on the State of Higher Education and annual business meeting will be held in Washington DC.
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| July 2013 |
| 7/1-7/5 |
The Metaphorical Use of Language in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature
International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (ICDCL 2013)
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus, Ziegelstr. 30,10117 Berlin, Germany
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| 7/4- 7/6 |
Peter in Earliest Christianity
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conference sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins,
University of Edinburgh (immediately before the SBL International
Meeting in St. Andrews). Speakers include: Timothy Barnes, Markus
Bockmuehl, Sean Freyne, Larry Hurtado, Peter Lampe, Tobias Nicklas, and
Margaret Williams. Topics include: the historical Peter, Peter in Galilean
and Roman archaeology, and Peter in the first three Christian
centuries. Offers of short papers (20 minutes) may be submitted to Dr.
Helen Bond before March 15, 2013. Registration opens October 1, 2012. Registration
fee, which covers conference fee, coffee breaks, and Friday lunch, is £40 before April 15, 2013,
and £50 after April 15, 2013 (and £35 for students any time). There
will also be a conference dinner Friday evening, for which the fee is £25
payable at registration.
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| 7/7- 7/11 |
SBL International Meeting
Held in St. Andrews, Scotland
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| 7/15- 7/17 |
Christian Contribution to the Arab Renaissance during the Second Millennium
The ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing its Thirty Seventh International Conference on Christian Contribution to the Arab Renaissance during the Second Millennium, to be held at the Oriental Institute, the University of Oxford, 15-17 July 2013.The conference will start on Monday 15th July at 9am, finishing on Wednesday 17th July at 6pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 35 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion.
All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review.
If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact the Aram Society, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England. Tel. 01865-514041 Fax. 01865-516824.
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| 7/16- 7/18 |
Paul’s Graeco-Roman Context
The Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense is an annual international conference on Biblical Studies jointly organised by the theological faculties of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Université
Catholique de Louvain. The meetings take place in the Faculty of Theology at the KU Leuven and are alternately dedicated to a topic in Old and in New Testament Studies.
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| 7/22-7/25 |
SOTS Summer Meeting
The Summer Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study will be held at Bangor University, Bangor.
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| 7/23-7/27 |
Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas
The annual meeting of the Society for New Testament Studies, the peak international body for New Testament scholarship and research, will be held in Perth, Western Australia, at Murdoch
University.
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| 7/29–7/31 |
The Decapolis: History and Archaeology
ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing its Thirty Fiftth International Conference on the theme of The Decapolis: History and Archaeology, to be held at Oxford University. The conference aims to study the movement of nomads and their settlements in the Syrian Orient; and it will pay a special attention to the migration of Arab nomads from the Arabian Peninsula to the Fertile Crescent in the pre-Islamic period.
The conference will start on Monday July 29th at 9am, finishing on Thursday, July 31st at 6pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 30 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact our Oxford address:ARAM, the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England. Tel. 01865-514041 Fax. 01865-516824. Email ARAM
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| 7/30-8/2 |
EABS Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies
Hosted by The University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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| August 2013 |
| 8/4–8/9 |
International Organization
for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT)
The 21st Congress of the International Organization for the Study
of the Old Testament (IOSOT) will take place at the University of Munich,
Germany. As usual it will be joint with the Congresses of the International
Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS, 1.-3. of August), of
the International Organization for Qumran Studies (IOQS), the International
Organziation for Masoretic Studies (IOMS), the International Organization for
Targum Studies (IOTS) and the International Syriac Language Project (ISLP).
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| 8/13-8/16 |
Identity Formation in the Gospel of Mark
International Conference hosted by the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
For more information contact
Prof. Dr. Gudrun Guttenberger or Prof. Dr.Heike Omerzu.
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| 8/29-8/31 |
British New Testament Society
2013 conference will be held at the University of St. Andrews. Details forthcoming.
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| September 2013 |
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| 9/3-9/6 |
EASR Annual Conference
The 12th EASR Annual Conference will be hosted by the Bristish Association for the Study of Religions at Liverpool Hope University, 3-6 September 2013.
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| November 2013 |
| 11/20- 11/22 |
John, Jesus, and History: Engaging the Legacies of C.H. Dodd and Raymond E. Brown
The occasion of this pre-SBL conference at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore is the 50th and 60th anniversaries of Dodd’s books on John and history as well as the ongoing significance of Brown, who taught at St. Mary’s from 1959 to 1971. The conference is sponsored by St. Mary’s and the SBL’s John, Jesus, and History section. The keynote address will be given by Jimmy Dunn. Papers and other presentations will be given by John Ashton, Alan Culpepper, Jonathan Draper, Craig Koester, Wendy E. S. North, Tom Thatcher, Jan van der Watt, and Catrin Williams, as well as Paul Anderson, John Donahue, Michael Gorman, and Jaime Clark-Soles. For further information, contact Craig Koester (ckoester@luthersem.edu) or Michael Gorman (mgorman@stmarys.edu). Registration begins June 1 at The occasion of this pre-SBL conference at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore is the 50th and 60th anniversaries of Dodd’s books on John and history as well as the ongoing significance of Brown, who taught at St. Mary’s from 1959 to 1971. The conference is sponsored by St. Mary’s and the SBL’s John, Jesus, and History section. The keynote address will be given by Jimmy Dunn. Papers and other presentations will be given by John Ashton, Alan Culpepper, Jonathan Draper, Craig Koester, Wendy E. S. North, Tom Thatcher, Jan van der Watt, and Catrin Williams, as well as Paul Anderson, John Donahue, Michael Gorman, and Jaime Clark-Soles. For further information, contact Craig Koester (ckoester@luthersem.edu) or Michael Gorman (mgorman@stmarys.edu).
Registration begins June 1 |
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| 11/23- 11/26 |
SBL Annual Meeting
The SBL Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of biblical scholars in the world. Each meeting showcases the latest in biblical research, fosters collegial contacts, advances research, and focuses on issues of the profession. The Annual Meeting will be held in Baltimore, Maryland
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| December 2013 |
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| January 2014 |
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Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
LSA’s 2014 Annual Meeting will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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| 1/2- 1/5 |
AIA and APA Joint Annual Meeting
The Joint Annual Meeting (AM) of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Philological Association (APA) will be held in Chicago, IL at the Hyatt Regency Chicago Hotel. The academic program
will begin on January 3.
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