»ASREC Annual Conference
Association for the Study of Religion and Culture (ASREC)
2026 Conference
ASREC invites paper submissions for its annual conference, held this year at Chapman
University in Orange, CA, on
March 20-21, 2026
Keynote Speaker - JamesRobinson
James Robinson is a University Professor at the Harris School for Public Policy and
Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago and recipient of the
2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He
studied economics at the London School of Economics, the University of Warwick and Yale University and is co-author with Daron Acemoglu of Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Why Nations Fail, (which has been translated into 51
languages including Amharic, Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Mongolian and Somali), and The Narrow Corridor. His next book, on Sub-Saharan Africa, entitled Wealth
in People will be published in 2026. He is currently conducting research in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Nigeria where he is a Fellow at
the Institute of African Studies at the University of Nigeria-Nsukka. He taught every summer for 28 years at the University of the Andes in Bogotá and now
teaches research design in the pan-African collaborative PhD program in economics run by the African Economic Research Consortiu m in Nairobi.
2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He
studied economics at the London School of Economics, the University of Warwick and Yale University and is co-author with Daron Acemoglu of Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Why Nations Fail, (which has been translated into 51
languages including Amharic, Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Mongolian and Somali), and The Narrow Corridor. His next book, on Sub-Saharan Africa, entitled Wealth
in People will be published in 2026. He is currently conducting research in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Nigeria where he is a Fellow at
the Institute of African Studies at the University of Nigeria-Nsukka. He taught every summer for 28 years at the University of the Andes in Bogotá and now
teaches research design in the pan-African collaborative PhD program in economics run by the African Economic Research Consortiu m in Nairobi.
Program Submission
The Program Chair invites submissions of papers that explore the intersection of religion and culture across a range of Social Sciences disciplines, including
Economics, Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology.
Submission Deadline: November 7, 2025
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