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Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting Registration
and Housing
AAR Annual Meeting
Registration and Housing opens on April
21 at 9:00 am EST! You
must be registered to secure housing. “Advance” registration rates
are in effect until September 15, 2008. Check your mailbox in early
April for the AAR Registration and Housing brochure containing all
the details, and visit www.aarweb.org to register and book housing
online.
Annual Meeting Proposals
If you submitted a proposal
for the Annual Meeting, you should have already received notification
of whether your proposal was accepted or not. If you did not
receive notification and submitted your proposal using the online
proposal system, you can check your status by logging in to the OP3 system
(if you submitted a proposal as a nonmember and have since renewed
your membership, you will still need to use the nonmember tracking
number given at the time of your proposal in order to see the
proposal’s status). If the status is not listed, please contact
the chairs of the Program Unit(s) to which you submitted.
Annual
Meeting Program Planner
Update your mailing address
now to receive a copy of the new Annual
Meeting Program Planner, to bemailed in early June to all
current members of the AAR. The Program Planner contains a
listing of the day, time, and theme for all Annual Meeting and
Additional Meetings sessions. The Annual
Meeting Program Planner is a great way to begin your
Annual Meeting planning.
Make sure your membership
address is listed correctly in the AAR
member directory by logging in to www.aarweb.org/Members/My_Account.
Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery. For more information on Annual
Meeting publications, check out the May issue of Religious Studies News.
Additional Meetings
If you wish to schedule an
Additional Meeting in conjunction with the AAR Annual Meeting in Chicago, please
use our new online Additional Meetings request system. You
must login with your AAR member ID
to access the system. The online system allows you to:
- Enter the complete information for the
Additional Meeting, including special time, setup, or
advertising requests.
- Check on the status for all of your
Additional Meetings requests; you will be able to see all
requests on the Additional Meetings main menu. Enter as
many requests as you’d like; the online request system is
open now!
- Edit the Additional Meetings theme and
advertising copy (if any) for publication in the all-new Annual Meeting Program Planner,
online Program Book,
and onsite Annual Meeting
Program Book.
- Receive e-mail confirmations and
receipts of your Additional Meetings requests for your records.
Additional Meeting requests
are scheduled Thursday, October 30 through Tuesday, November 4 on a
first-come, first-served basis. Please note that AAR does not permit
any Additional Meetings sessions of a programmatic nature (i.e.,
scholarly panel or paper presentations) to occur during AAR session times (9:00 am–11:30 am and
1:00 pm–6:30 pm) beginning at noon on Saturday. This
policy is to prevent any thematic conflicts between AAR
and Additional Meetings. More information about Additional
Meetings policies, rates, and deadlines is available online. The priority deadline for
scheduling and publication in the Annual
Meeting Program Planner is May 1, 2008
so submit your Additional Meeting requests today! |
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JAAR Call for Papers
China
and India
in the Euro-American Imagination
The JAAR invites papers that explore the specific ways
in which knowledge of China
and India
has shaped understandings of religious thought and practice in the
Euro-American West. While much scholarship in the past three decades
has focused on the construction of “Hinduism,”
“Buddhism,” and “Chinese Religions” in the
context of Euro-American colonial ambitions, relatively less has been
said about the role that burgeoning knowledge of the religious
traditions of China and India played in the construction of the
analytic categories of “religion” and
“ethics.” Topics might include, but are certainly not
limited to the role of Confucianism in the shaping of European
notions of altruism; Jesuit interpretations of Confucius; the
influence of the Upanisads on German Romanticism; Theosophical and
New Age appropriations of the religions of the East; the place of
Chinese thought in the development of Comparative Ethics; and Hindu
Renaissance thinkers and the birth of the idea of inter-religious
dialogue.
Deadline for submission is
March 1, 2009. Please direct queries to jaar@virginia.edu. |
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AAR Unveils New Job Postings Online
On April 1 the AAR unveiled Job Postings, the
most comprehensive public record of job listings for credentialed
scholars in religion. It is available online and free to individual
members of the AAR. Anyone,
regardless of membership status, can advertise in Job Postings.
We invite you to explore our
new Career Services menu on the AAR website. There you will find additional
information about Job Postings
and details about the 2008 Annual
Meeting Job Center
in Chicago.
The menu also includes employment trends in the field of religion and
resources designed to assist candidates in the job search.
Any questions regarding Career
Services should be directed to Jessica Davenport at 404-727-4707 or
emailed to careers@aarweb.org. |
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2007-2008 Employment Survey
To get a more accurate picture
of the employment trends in the field, the AAR
has created a web-based, anonymous survey to track hiring by
specialization and to collect demographic information on job
candidates. All candidates and employers who participated in the 2007
Employment Information Services Center in San Diego, CA will receive
a survey the second week in April. We ask that you take time to
fill out the brief survey. Your responses are essential to
identifying hiring trends in the field. We invite all members
to review the results from previous employment surveys, which can be
found on the AAR Career Services menu under
“Employment Trends.” |
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Especially for Students
The Midwest Regional Meeting
will be held April 4-5, 2008 at Dominican
University, River Forest, Illinois. Please attend and
support our undergraduate religion majors whose work will be
presented in four sections of the meeting. For further details go to www.aarweb.org/About_AAR/Regions/Midwest.
Having trouble writing the
dissertation project proposal? For graduate students at the
qualifying exams and dissertation writing stages, we have a resource
for you. Listed below is the link to an article on how to write
better proposals offered by the Social Science Research Council (www.ssrc.org). This resource
is for students in both the social sciences and the humanities.
The Art of Writing Proposals by
Adam Przeworski and Frank Salomon. http://fellowships.ssrc.org/art_of_writing_proposals. |
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Huston Smith Publishing Prize
The submission deadline for
HarperOne’s first annual Huston Smith Publishing Prize has been
extended to August 1, 2008. To celebrate renowned scholar Huston
Smith and the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking publication of The World’s Religions, the
prize will be awarded to one author whose unpublished work best
reflects the spirit of Huston Smith’s life’s work.
Defined broadly, this will be a work of non-fiction written for a
popular audience that promotes the cause of religious understanding
in the world and its interface with culture. The winning author
will receive a $25,000 advance against royalties and their manuscript
will be published by HarperOne. The winner will be announced at the
Annual Meeting of the AAR. Visit www.hustonsmithprize.com to see
the official rules and submit your manuscript. |
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JAAR e-TOC
If you would like to receive
free Table of Contents alerts from any of the journals published by
Oxford University Press, including the JAAR, please fill out their on-line form, which
can be found at jaar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/alerts/etoc. |
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Oxford University Press Newsletters
If you would like to receive
special offers, discounts, and web exclusives within the subject
areas of your choice, sign up online for OUP newsletters.. |
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Important
Dates
April 21, 2008
Registration and Housing Opens
May 1, 2008
Priority Deadline for Additional Meeting Requests
March 1, 2009
JAAR Call for Papers
Deadline
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CONTACT
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