Dear list members, The annual conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR) will be held on 3 - 5 December at Deakin University, Melbourne City Centre Campus. The theme of the conference is "Religion, Diversity and Governance". The conference will explore a diverse range of research areas, including (but not limited to) religion and education, interreligious relations, religion and gender, religion and the environment, and new atheism. Call for papers Please submit a 250 word abstract with your name, title and affiliation to anna.halafoff@deakin.edu.au by July 18, 2014. Please indicate if you are a PhD student, and if so, at which university. We will consider abstracts on the above research areas and also the wider field of religious studies. Participants will be notified whether their paper has been accepted by July 31, 2014. Post-Graduate Prizes The AASR and Equinox both award a post-graduate prize of $500 to the two best abstracts submitted by PhD students to assist them to attend the conference. The winners’ full papers will also be considered for publication in the AASR’s Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, which is published by Equinox. Further details will be posted in the near future on the AASR website.