Call for Papers by the American Academy of Religion

My friend, Ruth Bailey, writes to me that in her latest Mormon Historical Association newsletter, there was a call for papers that she thinks I might know more about than she. (me being Canadian, her begin American)

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American Academy of Religion, Pacific Northwest Region

2014 AAR/SBL/ASOR Regional Meeting

University of Calgary, Alberta May 9-11, 2014

They want Mormon Studies.  When both of us attended the  Mormon Historical Association Conference that was held in Calgary, one of the speakers pointed out that Mormonism had been left out of Canadian history and shouldn't have been.  It looks like the American Academy of Religion want to include it.  They want the meeting to be multidisciplinary--history, culture, belief and practice, theology, scripture, politics.  They especially want papers that include impact of women and minorities; development of Mormon beliefs, etc.; interfaith traditions; politics, Mormon Studies within the academic study of religion; Mormonism within North American culture.

Proposals need to go though Oxford Abstracts.  For more details, see http://pnw-aarsbl.org.  Submit between October 15, 2013 and January 21, 2014.  Acceptance letters will be sent by February 1, 2014.

Looks like it is late now for submitting papers, but anyone with an interesting paper could still submit late. Conferences like these are always looking for good papers and are willing to squeeze them in somewhere.

There are probably lots of other papers out there that involve the Mormons, just waiting to be written ... or that have been written and are just waiting for a place to be read.  Just an idea.

And no, I am not going to write another paper with you, Rebecca.  I have ports to see, instead.

Arta