Nominations are invited for the 2026 Rice University Boniuk Institute Senior Scholar. The Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance’s Senior Scholar Award is given annually to the senior scholar who has made outstanding contributions to the public understanding of religious pluralism and tolerance, and who most exemplifies Boniuk Institute’s mission to understand the conditions which lead to religious pluralism, conflict, and violence, and help people apply its findings in their lives and communities.   The Senior Scholar will join the Boniuk Institute at Rice University in the Spring of 2026 for about three days, where they will participate in a variety of Institute programs, including the official award ceremony event. At this event, the scholar will be presented with an award and honorarium and

Job Title: Zwan Postdoctoral Associate, Boniuk Institute   Position Summary Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance is seeking a postdoctoral associate with a PhD in social sciences to begin on August 1, 2024.   The postdoc will report to the Associate Director of Research and the Director of the Institute, working closely with the Associate Director of Research on the following responsibilities: 1) Quantitative and/or qualitative analysis of in-house national data collections leading to collaborative publications analyzing religious discrimination, victimization, and diversity in the workplace and society more generally, 2) assisting with implementing grant-funded research such as qualitative interviews, GIS mapping, and/or survey design, and 3) assisting with the development of grant proposals for new data collections on religious diversity, conflict, and

Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance is pleased to invite applications for sponsorship to the Rice Academy Postdoctoral Fellows Program. The two-year Rice Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to exceptional scholars who have recently earned a doctoral degree in any area and who want to pursue research with faculty at Rice University. Rice Academy Fellows application requires sponsorship by a Rice University faculty member in a dual sponsorship structure. This call is for consideration for sponsorship by the Boniuk Institute in the Institute’s area of interest and in specific disciplines for the Rice Academy of Fellows.  If selected as a Fellow, Boniuk institute will fund 50% of the Fellow’s salary (the other 50% to be funded by the Rice Academy). The application

This is an open invitation to the conference Contestations in Land and Agriculture: New Directions in Theology and Ethics, due to take place at Christ Church, University of Oxford, between 16-18 May. The conference is co-hosted by the Laudato Si’ Research Institute, Campion Hall, and the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Life, both at the University of Oxford.   Registration for this conference closes on 28 April, so if you are interested in attending, please sign up soon.   Full details are available by clicking here, and registration can be completed here. Registration is subsidized at £50 student rate (£80 standard rate), including lunch, wine reception, film showing, lectures, and panel discussions. There are opportunities to register for the whole event, or alternatively for some individual components,

LAUNCH EVENT: Tuesday, 21st September 2021 (Zoom)   A new multidisciplinary scholarly network, bringing together those interested in the academic study of the social and cultural dimensions of the intersection between religion and astrobiology has begun with ISSR Fellow Stephen Bullivant as PI. They are currently seeking new members of the Network, to join their founding group of leading scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.   Full details can be found in RACS Call for Participants. Click here to view: https://www.issr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/RACS-CALL-FOR-PARTICIPANTS.pdf 

The official program of the X Latin American Congress of Science and Religion is now available (only in Spanish). To view the program, please visit the following link: https://www.issr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/X-CoLaCyR-Programa-Final.pdf   The Congress will be held in Argentina, from September 15 to 17. For more information, please visit the following link: https://fjs.ucc.edu.ar/curso.php?id=21629