2011-12 Series
Semester One
6 October: joint Seminar with Screen Studies
Goldie Osuri (Department of Media, Music, Communications and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney)
'Sovereign and Profane Loves in Popular Indian Cinema:Jodhaa Akbar (2008) and Saat Khoon Maaf (2011)'.
17 November
Mohsen Ghasemi (University of Manchester)
'Beyond Literature and Philosophy: The 'Writing' of the Masnavi'.
15 December
Pr. Aaron Gross, (University of San Diego, USA),
'The Study of Religion After the Animal'.
2010-11 Series
Semester Two
Thursday 17th February
Hanne von Weissenberg (University of Helsinki):
'The Bible at Qumran: The Case of the Twelve Prophets '.
Thursday 24th February
Jamie Wood:
'Pedagogic Violence in Late Antique Christianity'.
Thursday 10th March
Andrew Crome:
'Aspects of Apocalyptic Thought in Doctor Who'.
Thursday 17th March
David Knaute (Centre d'Etude sur L'Inde et l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)):
'Processes of identity transformation and transnational migratory circulation: the case of the Zoroastrian Parsi minority of Karachis'.
Thursday 24th March
Mike Williams:
'Problems with translating Indian Philosophical Texts for a modern audience'.
Thursday 7th April
Jacqueline Suthren Hirst and John Zavos:
'Writing Religious Traditions in Modern South Asia'.
Thursday 5th May
John Rodwell
Title TBC
2009-10 Series
Semester One
8 October:
Atreyee Sen:
'Inventing poor women's "history": female valour, martial queens, and right-wing story-tellers in the Bombay slums'
22 October:
Bettina Schmidt (Bangor University):
'Spirit possession in Caribbean religions: some problems of interpretation'
12 November:
Marcel Stoetzler:
'Durkheim's and Simmel's views on modern society in the light of the dispute on anti-Semitism in the 1890s'
26 November:
John Broadley:
'"A splendid and handsome church": Building 'The Holy Name of Jesus' in Manchester and constructing a Catholic community in the environs of the University in the late nineteenth century'
17 December:
Peter Oakes:
'Paul and Pompeian craftworkers: reading religious texts in relation to social diversity'
Semester Two
11 February:
David Law:
'"A shameless indecency that makes a fool of God": Kierkegaard's view of the Church'
18 February:
Roberta Mazza:
'"Are all publicans sinners?" Economy, society and early Christian writings'
11 March:
Khaled Hroub [Director of Cambridge Arab Media Project (CAMP), University of Cambridge]:
'Hamas: liberation movement or religious organisation?'
25 March:
Kim Haines-Eitzen (Cornell University):
'"Reading as if she were eating dessert": the figure of the female reader in Late Antiquity'
29 April:
Hazel Collinson:
'Philosophy as pedagogy: some classical Indian approaches to consciousness.'
13 May:
Stefan Skrimshire:
'Kant's Apocalypse: climate change and the (un)timely return of the decaying earth thesis'
2008-9 Series
9 October:
Elaine Graham:
'Doing God: Private Faith and Public Reason in the Politics of Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, and Helen Clark'
23 October:
Alan Williams:
'Rumi and the Vortical (sic): towards a psychology of mystical poetics'
20 November:
Jean-Marc Dreyfus:
'Jews in Alsace: ethnography, history and memory, 1791-2008'
4 December:
Youssef Choueiri
'The West and Jihadism: politics and religion since 9/11'
18 December:
Graham Ward
'Hegel's doctrine of the Trinity'
12 February:
Philip Alexander:
'Has the Academy a role to play in inter-religious dialogue?'
26 February:
William Johnson (Cardiff University):
'Playing around with Sakuntala: translating a classical Sanskrit text for performance'
12 March:
Francesca Tarocco:
'The making of the modern imaginary of Buddhism'
26 March:
Marcel Stoetzler
'Durkheim's and Simmel's views on modern society in the light of the dispute on anti-Semitism in the 1890s'
30 April:
Arthur Bradley (Lancaster)
'The New Atheist novel'
14 May:
Lucia Dolce (SOAS)
'Repentance, exorcism, and performance in a 'popular' Japanese Buddhist ritual
2007-8 Series
4 Oct: Kate Cooper, University of Manchester
'The Rise of Christian Marriage'?
11 Oct: Sujata Patel, Pune University
Sociological Study of Religion, Colonial Modernity, and Nineteenth Century Majoritarianism in India
29 Nov: Daniel Langton, University of Manchester
The Gracious Ambiguity of Grace Aguilar (1816-1847): Anglo-Jewish Theologian, Novelist, Poet, and Pioneer of Interfaith Relations
7 Feb: Joanne Cruickshank, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne
'Friend of my Soul': Mary Bosanquet Fletcher and the Friendship of Women in Early English Methodism
21 Feb: Elisabeth Stores, University of Manchester
Faith, Spirituality and Mental Health: Exploring Some of the Issues for People Living with Alzheimer's Disease
6 March: Gareth Jones, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University
Mugabe, gukuruhundi, and church complicity: doctrinal lessons from the Anglican Communion
13 March: Joe Duggan, University of Manchester
The Anglican Communion: a postcolonial accident?
24 April: Jane Cameron, University of Edinburgh
The image of Ambedkar in the Buddhist movement in western India
8 May: Kevin Cosgrove, University of Manchester
Karl Rahner's Mediating Theology