Call for Proposals for Papers and Posters at the 2012 meeting of the

International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR) on June 25, 2012

in conjunction with the international conference entitled

Biological and Cultural Evolution and Their Interactions:
Rethinking the Darwinian and Durkheimian Legacy in the Context of the Study of Religion (June 26-30, 2012)

(Hosted by the Section for the Study of Religion, Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark)

IACSR invites members and interested scholars to submit proposals for papers (lasting no more than 25 minutes) and/or posters for possible inclusion in the program of its upcoming meeting in 2012 in Aarhus. Submissions that relate their studies to the theme of biological and cultural evolution will be given priority. The IACSR recognizes that the cognitive sciences encompass a wide array of disciplines and methods, including, among others, experimental research in psychology and neuroscience, computational modeling, ethnographic, historical, archaeological, and comparative studies of religious cognition, and the survey techniques of the social sciences. Presentations advancing new cognitive theories of diverse religious phenomena are also welcome.

Proposals should consist of two pages. The cover page should include the following items ONLY:

1. presentation title
2. word count of the proposal
3. all authors’ names 
4. All authors’ email addresses (papers with multiple authors should explicitly indicate which of the addresses should serve as the one to which all subsequent communications about this submission should be sent)

On a subsequent page, the substantive section of the proposal should, again, include the title of the presentation, should not exceed 500 words, and should not contain either footnotes or endnotes or the author’s name(s).

Proposals should be attached as an MS Word file in emails with “IACSR submission” in their subject lines to be sent to Armin W. Geertz at awg@teo.au.dk. The deadline for submission is February 1, 2012.

All proposals will be evaluated in anonymous peer review by members of the Executive Committee who have not themselves submitted a proposal.

President Robert N. McCauley
President Elect Armin W. Geertz
Secretary General Joseph Bulbulia