Call for Papers: DynaRel Annual Conference 2027 Neighboring Textual and Intellectual Traditions: Dialogues – Polemics – Translations, 1-3 February 2027, deadline for papers: 31 August 2026

Call for Papers: DynaRel Annual Conference 2027 Neighboring Textual and Intellectual Traditions: Dialogues – Polemics – Translations, 1-3 February 2027, deadline for papers: 31 August 2026

The LOEWE Centre Dynamics of Religion (DynaRel) at Goethe University Frankfurt invites proposals for its first international annual conference, organised by Research Area 1, “Religious-Cultural Entanglements: Translation – Transfer – Mediality.”

The conference explores textual and intellectual neighbourhoods between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It focuses on dialogue, polemics, and translation, asking how religious traditions relate to one another through processes of exchange, appropriation, demarcation, and transformation.

Contributions from both early-career and established scholars are welcome.

Conference: 1–3 February 2027
Venue: Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Conference language: English
Submission deadline: 31 August 2026

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words, together with a brief biographical note of no more than 100 words, to Selma Schwarz at schwarz.s@em.uni-frankfurt.de.

The full Call for Papers is available here:

https://dynamiken-des-religioesen.uni-frankfurt.de/call-for-papers-erste-internationale-dynarel-jahrestagung-2027/