CHRONIKA
Volume 8, Spring 2018
Chronika is an interdisciplinary, open access journal for graduate students studying the art and archaeology of the Mediterranean world. Chronika, like its parent organization the Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology (www.iema.buffalo.edu), encourages interdisciplinary dialogues and innovative approaches to the study of the past.
Call for Submissions
Chronika welcomes submissions from graduate students that address topics relevant to European and Mediterranean archaeology. Articles must be 3,000 to 4,000 words in length, should detail research at or above the Masters level, and may include up to ten images. To have your article considered for this year’s publication, please submit a 100 to 200 word abstract to chronika@buffalo.edu by Friday, October 27, 2017. You will be notified if your article is selected by October 27. The publication schedule will proceed as follows:
December 15 – First draft of full article is due.
January 5 – Article is returned to author with comments.
February 16 – Revised article is due.
April 6 – Chronika launches in print and online.
A hard copy is mailed to each author shortly after this time.
Thank you for your interest in Chronika, and we look forward to receiving your submission. Please direct any inquiries to chronika@buffalo.edu.
Heather Rosch
Editor in Chief
Please visit Chronika on the web at www.chronikajournal.com

Call for Papers
ARCE Annual Meeting

ARCE members who wish to present papers, panels, or a graduate student poster at the 69th ARCE Annual Meeting, April 20-22, 2018 in Tucson, Arizona, may now begin submitting abstracts.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 19 at midnight Pacific Time.
Submissions must be received via ARCE’s All Academic site. Review submission guidelines and complete your entry here.
The Review Committee is comprised of scholars in both ancient and modern Egyptian studies. The committee will employ a double-blind vetting process; neither reviewers nor submitters will be informed of each others’ identities. In order to preserve the blind review component, text of abstracts should not include personally identifiable information.
All presenters must be ARCE members in good standing. Please renew memberships online at arce.org/membership or contact info@arce.org.
Information on the 2018 Annual Meeting will be posted at arce.org/annualmeeting in early 2018.
We look forward to receiving your abstract!

Call for Abstracts
2018 CREOR Colloquium on Religion and Violence

Conference Topic: Religion and Violence: Sources, History, and the Contemporary World
Co-chairs: Gerbern S. Oegema and André Gagné
Dates: April 17-20, 2018
Location: McGill University and Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Submission Deadline: January 1st, 2018.
Contact: creor2018rv@gmail.com
This colloquium seeks to reexamine the relationship between religion and violence in the contemporary world by reflecting on the traditional scriptural sources that are often ascribed to religious violence.
Participants are encouraged to submit papers that reflect on the following questions and themes: How has the understanding of the relationship between violence and religion changed over time? How does methodology shape the scholarship on religion and violence? Is religious violence different than secular/non-religious violence? By drawing attention to religious violence how has political discourse overlooked the religious victims of religious or secular violence? Is there a place for discussions of religious conceptions of non-violence in the scholarship on religion and violence? How can policy makers use scriptural sources to promote peace and social cohesion?
Themes and Categories:
Anti-terrorism and de-radicalization
Construction/ deconstruction of religion
Culture vs scripture
Culture of violence
Eastern vs Western religious violence
Effects of post-colonialism
Extremism and radicalization
Gender and sexuality
Gender and development
Methodological approaches to religion and violence
Pluralism
Political violence vs religious violence
Religion and community building
Radical environmentalism
Religious freedom vs control
Religion and globalization
Religion and nationalism
Religion and violence in the media
Ritual and violence
State security
Terrorism
The role of hermeneutics
Toleration
Violence and textual traditions
Violence in the name of secularity
Guidelines for proposals:
Please submit a 250-word abstract explaining the topic and main arguments of the paper by January 1st, 2018. All disciplines and fields welcome. Papers must engage in and contribute to the scholarly discourse; works of advocacy or mere summary will not be considered. Presentations may be in either English or French and should not exceed 20 minutes. Proposals should include all contact information including institutional affiliation. These proposals as well as any questions or requests for further information should be sent to the following address: creor2018rv@gmail.com
See full Call for Papers here:
CFP_Religion and Violence (eng)