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  • 28.03.2022 | Conference

    Call For Papers Religious Heritage and Change in the North

    Religious Heritage and Change in the North Historical, Contemporary and Comparative Perspectives Research conference in Turku/Åbo, 10-11 November 2022   This conference is organized jointly by the research network Religious History of the North (REHN) at Umeå University, and the research project Changing Spaces: Ritual Buildings, Sacred Objects, and Human Sensemaking at the Polin Institute/Åbo Akademi University. The conference […]

  • 28.03.2022 | News

    Announcement: 3-year doctoral scholarship from the research project JESAJA

    The Polin Institute announces a 3-year doctoral scholarship (maximum 36 months) from the research project JESAJA – Isaiah between Judeo-Christian Border Lines. The JESAJA research project is funded by The Julius Polin Ancestors Memorial Fund, which is managed by the Åbo Akademi University Foundation. The doctoral scholarship should begin during the calendar year of 2022.   […]

  • 07.02.2022 | Conference

    Call for Papers Religious Heritage and Change in the North

    Religious Heritage and Change in the North Historical, Contemporary and Comparative Perspectives   Research conference in Turku/Åbo, 10-11 November 2022   This conference is organized jointly by the research network Religious History of the North (REHN) at Umeå University, and the research project Changing Spaces: Ritual Buildings, Sacred Objects, and Human Sensemaking at the Polin […]

  • 04.03.2019 | News

    An interdisciplinary conference in August 2018: Religious Encounters and Polemics in Late Antiquity: Boundaries, Conversions and Persuasion

    The first international conference sponsored by the Polin Institute took place at Åbo Akademi University.