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2012

Feb 10 | T. Nicholas Schonhoffer

2011

Jun 20 | Ronald Numbers as Visiting Professor in 2011-12
Jun 17 | Jean Baumgarten as Visiting Professor in 2011-12
May 28 | New Hebrew Language Instructor Hired
May 27 | New issue of Symposia journal published
May 13 | Spring Newsletter, 2010-11
Apr 30 | Undergraduates appointed Jackman Fellows
Mar 24 | Islam and the Bible
Feb 5 | New and upcoming books on Islam

2010

Dec 20 | Students and faculty headed for Germany
Dec 1 | Ruth Marshall on Spiritual Warfare
Nov 30 | Kevin O’Neill on Two Ways Out
Nov 30 | Shafique Virani wins OCUFA Teaching Award
Nov 14 | Planning for the Dead Sea Scrolls
Nov 12 | Research Partnerships Program
Nov 1 | Testing Methods and Teaching Islam
Oct 19 | RPS Research Fellows: Call for Proposals
Oct 18 | Doctoral Student Joins Translation Team
Sep 1 | Jain Studies in India
Aug 30 | Summer study in China
Jul 6 | The 32 Signs of the Buddha: Medical Considerations

2009

May 3 | Visiting the Dead Sea Scrolls
May 3 | Graduate student-faculty research partnerships in Religion

Awards, Honours, and Distinctions

2011

Sep 1 | Mittermaier’s book awarded Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion
Aug 4 | Mittermaier’s book wins award
Jul 4 | Garrett wins SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops award
Jul 4 | Novak appointed fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
May 19 | R. Marshall wins Connaught New Researcher Award
May 19 | Mittermeier wins Connaught New Researcher Award
May 4 | Mroczek gets position at Indiana University
May 4 | Bright wins Julia Ching Award
Apr 5 | Last wins New Testament Student Paper Prize
Apr 2 | Mittermaier awarded fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study
Apr 2 | Mittermaier wins SSHRC Standard Research Grant
Apr 2 | Garrett wins SSHRC Partnership Development Grant
Mar 17 | Macumber in the Auschwitz Jewish Centre Fellows Program
Mar 10 | Wood wins BDK Canada Scholarship
Mar 10 | King wins Lotus Scholarship
Feb 23 | Callon wins Joachim Jeremias Essay Prize

2009

Dec 1 | Rollens receives two awards and publishes a review
Dec 1 | Roberts wins OGS and Israel and Golda Koschitsky Fellowship in Jewish Studies
Dec 1 | Nasser-Sunderji receives four awards
Dec 1 | Crane hired as Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought at Emory
Dec 1 | Appolloni wins Arthur and Sonia Labatt Award
Dec 1 | Kloppenborg appointed to editorial board
Dec 1 | Tenure Awards

2008

Dec 1 | R. Marshall wins the Audrey Richard’s Prize
Dec 1 | Kloppenborg publishes Q, The Earliest Gospel
Dec 1 | Virani wins Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award
Dec 1 | Najman publishes The Significance of Sinai
Jun 6 | Wood awarded Shastri Student Excellence Award and Travel Award
Jun 6 | LaGrone receives Molly Spitzer Scholarship
Jun 6 | Kothari admitted to School for Jain Studies
Jun 6 | Jones awarded language Study grant
Jun 6 | Cation receives Scholarship from Security Defence Forum
Jun 6 | Bright awarded language Study grant

2007

Dec 6 | Novak appointed to federal agency
Dec 6 | Wood awarded language study grant
Dec 6 | Klassen awarded SSHRC workshop grant
Dec 6 | Klassen and Garrett awarded Student Experience Program Fund Award
Dec 6 | Lindsay receives Shastri Award
Dec 6 | Kothari awarded Sandhya Ray Award
Dec 6 | King awarded language study grant
Dec 6 | Cation receives SSHRC award
Dec 6 | Bright awarded language study grant

2004

Dec 6 | Vertin receives Teacher of the Year Award
Dec 6 | Kloppenborg’s Excavating Q translated into Spanish
Dec 6 | Garrett wins Connaught Symposia Award
Dec 6 | Novak named Visiting Scholar at Princeton

Events Listings

[Note: These events are listed by the date on which the item was posted to the website, not the date on which the event occurred.]

2012

Feb 15 | Graduate Colloquium – Erin Vearncombe
Jan 27 | Islamic Philosophy Reading Group
Jan 25 | Tikvah Lecture in Jewish Thought

2011

Dec 11 | 2012 Annual DSR Graduate Student Symposium
Oct 18 | Film Screening: How They See Me (Without Seeing Me)
Sep 28 | Information Session about applying for graduate studies at the Department for the Study of Religion at UofT
Sep 23 | Historiography Working Group
Sep 15 | Graduate Colloquium – Paul Nahme
Sep 15 | Graduate Colloquium – Dace Veinberga
Sep 15 | Graduate Colloquium – Simon Appolloni
Sep 15 | Graduate Colloquium – Jenny Bright
Sep 15 | Graduate Colloquium – Brian Carwana
Sep 15 | Graduate Colloquium – Dianna Roberts-Zauderer
Sep 15 | Memorial Service for Nick Schonhoffer
Sep 15 | Graduate Colloquium – Nick Dion
Sep 14 | Graduate Colloquium
Sep 12 | Crossing Boundaries: Texts, Traditions, Temporalities
Aug 9 | Buddhist Languages Summer Institute
Jul 4 | Symposia Call for Papers
Jun 20 | Pedagogy Lunch
Jun 20 | Open House
Jun 20 | Pedagogy Lunch
Jun 20 | Syllabus Writing Workshop
Jun 20 | Graduate Colloquium
Jun 20 | Graduate Colloquium
Jun 20 | Graduate Colloquium – Tim Langille
Jun 20 | Graduate Colloquium – Syed Adnan Hussain
Jun 20 | Graduate Colloquium – Paul York
Jun 20 | Talk by Visiting Professor Dr. Sayeh Meisami
Jun 20 | Pedagogy Lunch
Jun 20 | SSHRC workshop
Jun 20 | Graduate Orientation
May 4 | Course for Graduate Students – Writing SSHRC Proposals
Apr 26 | Monasticism, Conflict and Enlightenment in Tibetan Ecclesiastical Hagiography
Apr 6 | Buddhist Studies Research Workshop
Apr 1 | Islamic Philosophy Reading Group
Mar 28 | The Beauty of Religion Graduate Symposium
Mar 26 | A Public Observance of Solidarity with the People of Japan and the Pacific Rim
Mar 23 | “Author Meets Critics” on The Best Things in Life: A Guide to What Really Matters
Mar 22 | Gregory Schopen on Debt, Slavery, and Who could Become a Buddhist Nun
Mar 22 | Biblical Studies and Nietzsche: Philological and Philosophical Reflections
Mar 18 | Sexuality, Youth, and Religion in the UK: Reflections and Findings
Mar 18 | Buddhist Nuns in India
Mar 18 | Colloquium on the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
Mar 16 | Archives and the Event of God: The Impact of Michel Foucault on Philosophical Theology
Mar 16 | Symposium: Biblical Studies and Nietzsche
Mar 16 | Religious Diversity, Judicial Politics, and Institutional Secularization in Europe
Mar 15 | Putting Faith in Hate: Religion as the Subject and Source of Hate Speech
Mar 14 | Kierkegaard Circle – Alternity in Kierkegaard’s Thought
Mar 11 | Preksha Dhyana in Jaina Yoga
Mar 11 | Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies Graduate Student Conference
Mar 10 | Mona Schrempf on “Female Body, State and Family Planning”
Mar 8 | Harney Lecture: Matthias Koenig
Mar 7 | What is Neutrality? Inclusive and Exclusive Approaches to State, Religion and Culture
Mar 4 | Lecture by Yehuda Halper: Can One Pray to the God of Aristotle’s Metaphysics?
Feb 16 | Vagrants, Criminals and Madmen: Medico-Theology and the Early Modern Politics of Naturalism
Feb 12 | An Exploration of the United Church of Canada and Residential School Apology
Feb 12 | Yoga for Cats, Doga, Woga and others monsters in contemporary yoga practice
Feb 9 | God on the Brain: Christianity and Neuroscience
Feb 8 | Taqwacore by Omar Majeed
Feb 5 | New and upcoming books on Islam
Feb 5 | Religion, Culture and Clinical Ethics
Feb 3 | CFP: Crossing Boundaries: Formation, Reception and Interpretation of Religious Texts
Jan 31 | What if Earth is our Best Hope?
Jan 26 | RPS Reading Group – The New Metaphysicals
Jan 26 | Time out of mind: Remembering the future in the debate over science and religion
Jan 22 | Pedagogy Luncheon
Jan 14 | The Politics of Living Religion/Spirituality and Gender/Sexuality in Everyday Context – Call for Papers
Jan 11 | Conference Call for Submissions!!! Deadline Jan 21, 2011, Concordia University, Montreal
Jan 11 | Call For Papers: A Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Jan 11 | Scriptural Studies with a Twist!
Jan 10 | Seminar – Prof. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Jan 10 | Lecture – The Neighbour and the Jew in Medieval England
Jan 4 | Joseph Heath: “Six Desiderata for an Evolutionarily Plausible Account of Morality”

2010

2005

Dec 1 | Buddhist and Scientific Approaches to Mental Health and Healing