In 2011 the New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions will meet jointly with the Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies. The conference will take place at the Mercure Resort in Queenstown from 7-9 December 2011. There will be two parallel streams of panels; plenary lectures and meals will be held together.

The NZASR (www.nzasr.ac.nz) invites papers on the theme of religion and reception history. In addition to papers examining the transmission, reception and effect of religious texts, ideas and traditions across time and across geographical borders we especially seek papers reflecting on reception history as a method in the study of religion. Selected papers on reception history will be considered for publication in a special issue of Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception (www.relegere.org). We welcome also papers on other aspects of the academic study of religion.

The AABS (www.buddhiststudies.org.au) presents a multidisciplinary forum for the academic discussion of research on Buddhism. Contributions are welcome from all academic perspectives including textual studies, history, sociology, religious studies, cultural studies, psychology, music, performance and art history.

Speakers in both streams have approximately 20 minutes to deliver their paper, with additional time for questions and discussion. Postgraduates are particularly welcome to submit papers for either conference stream.

The call for papers will close on 31 October 2011. Abstracts should be submitted online at the conference website: http://www.nzasr.ac.nz/conference/

Registration at early bird and student rates will close on 30 September 2011. Further details of rates and how to register are available on the conference website.

The conference is hosted by the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Otago. Please direct questions to Will Sweetman (will.sweetman@otago.ac.nz).

Will Sweetman

26/11/2010 1:00 pm