If members have programs or CFPs from earlier AASR conferences, please contact the AASR secretary.
We would love to have a full record of all fifty conferences!

2025

50TH annual conference

“Rural Religion and Religious Heritage” | Federation University, Ballarat | website | program

2024

49TH annual conference

“Thinking Religion in Place” | Charles Sturt University, Canberra | website | program

2023

48TH annual conference

University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney | website | program

2022

47TH annual conference

University of Melbourne | website | program

2021

46TH annual conference

“Hope” | Australian National University, Canberra (online) | website | program

2020

45TH annual conference

Digital Conference | website | program | recordings (YouTube)

2019

44TH annual conference

“Religion and Violence” | University of Newcastle | program

Gender, Religion, and sexuality symposium

University of Newcastle, Sydney | program

2018

43RD ANNUAL COnFERENCE (with NZASR)

“Ngā Wāhi Tapu/Sacred Place: Continuity and Change” | University of Auckland | program

2017

42ND ANNUAL Conference (with NZASR)

“Religious Diversity in a Changing World” | University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney | program

2016

41ST ANNUAL Conference

Australian Catholic University, Melbourne | flyer (pdf)

2015

40TH ANNUAL Conference (with NZASR)

University of Otago, Queenstown | program (pdf)

2014

39TH ANNUAL Conference (with NZASR)

“Religion, Diversity and Governance” | Deakin University, Melbourne | call for papers (docx) | draft program (pdf)

2013

38TH ANNUAL Conference

“The Paradox of Liberation and Religion” | University of South Australia, Adelaide | call for papers (pdf)

2012

37TH ANNUAL Conference (with AABS)

“Multiple Religious Modernities” | University of Western Sydney | program (pdf)

2011

36TH ANNUAL Conference

Southern Cross University, Lismore | program (pdf) | reflection (pdf)

2010

35TH ANNUAL Conference

Griffith University, Brisbane

2009

34TH ANNUAL Conference

“Religion and Difference” | University of Melbourne

2008

33RD ANNUAL Conference (with SBL)

University of Auckland | program (pdf) | proceedings (ext)

2007

32ND ANNUAL Conference

“The end of the world as we know it? New directions in Australian spirituality”
| Australian Catholic University, Melbourne | program (pdf)

2006

31st (30th Anniversary) Annual Conference

“Celebrating the Past – Anticipating the Future” | University of South Australia, Adelaide | program (pdf)

2005

30TH Annual Conference (with RLA)

“Ways and Means: Re-inventing Studies in Religion for the Third Millenium” | University of Sydney | program (pdf)

2004

29TH Annual Conference (with The Affinity Intercultural Foundation)

“Fear and Fascination: The Other in Religion” | University of Western Sydney | program (pdf)

2003

28TH Annual Conference

Griffith University, Brisbane | program (pdf)

2002

27th annual conference

University of New England, Armidale

2001

26th annual conference (with ANZATS)

"Religion and Public Policy" | University of Melbourne | call for papers (pdf)

2000

25TH Annual Conference

“Identity and Change” | Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane | call for papers (pdf) | program (pdf)

1999

24th annual conference

“The End of Religions? Religion in an Age of Globalization” | University of Sydney | Call for papers (pdf)

1998

23rd annual conference

“Managing Religious Diversity” | University of Melbourne | call for papers (pdf)

1997

22nd annual conference

Brisbane

1996

21st annual conference (with NZASR)

Lincoln University | abstracts (pdf)

1995

20th annual conference

“Journeys and Landscapes” | Australian Catholic University, Ballarat | call for papers (pdf)

1994

19th annual conference (with ANZATS)

Aquinas College, Adelaide | call for papers (pdf) | cbstracts (pdf)

1993

18th annual conference

University of New England, Armidale | call for papers (pdf)

1992

17th annual conference (With aar, sbl, etc.)

Melbourne Conference Centre | call for papers (pdf)

1991

16th annual conference

“Multiculturalism and Religion” | University of Sydney | report (pdf)

1990

15th annual conference

Australian National University, Canberra

1989

14th annual conference

University of Western Australia, Perth | call for papers (PDF) | preview and schedule (pdf)

1988

13th annual conference

University of Queensland, Brisbane | preview (pdf) | summary and reflection (pdf)

1987

12th annual conference

University of Melbourne | summary and reflection (pdf)