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Lauren Turek I would like to share the following call for papers that I received. This conference looks fantastic and would be an excellent opportunity for graduate students of all levels. Call For Papers: Graduate Student Conference on Democracy and Religion University of Virginia, April 12, 2019 The UVA Department of Religious Studies’ Forum on Democracy and Religion invites paper proposals for a graduate student conference to be held on April 12, 2019 . Graduate students at any level and in any disciplinary field are welcome to apply. Our focus will be on the relationship between democracy and religion. We are particularly interested in such issues as: the current contest between free exercise and human dignity; the shifting sites of the “public square,” including its market dimensions; the relationship between neoliberalism and international religious freedom; how discussions of religious minorities, race, and gender shape what we mean by religion and democracy; and whether democra...

Maggie Elmore The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism is pleased to announce the annual deadline to apply for travel grants from the Cushwa Center. The Center offers five different grants for projects related to the study of American and global Catholicism: The  Theodore M. Hesburgh Research Travel Grant  (to use the Hesburgh Papers at the University of Notre Dame) The  Research Travel Grant  (to use the Notre Dame University Archives or other collections at the Hesburgh Libraries ) The Peter R. D'Agostino Research Travel Grant (to use Roman archives for a US Catholic-focused project)  The Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grant (to conduct research on Catholic women at any research repository inside or outside of the US, or to conduct oral interviews, especially of women religious)  The Hibernian Research Award (for projects related to Irish experiences in Ireland and the United States) The deadline for applying for each of these g...