News
2012
- Feb 10 | T. Nicholas Schonhoffer
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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”
- Dec 15 | Seminar for Culture and Religion Antiquity – Hindy Najman, Eibert Tigchelaar and Ronald Hendel Workshop
- Dec 15 | Seminar for Culture and Religion Antiquity – Martha Himmelfarb
- Dec 15 | Seminar for Culture and Religion Antiquity – Matthias Henze
- Dec 15 | Individualisation and identity in visionary texts of the early 2nd century
- Dec 15 | Rewriting Within and Outside the Hebrew Bible
- Dec 15 | Seminar for Culture and Religion Antiquity – Steve Weitzman
- Dec 7 | Call for RPS Graduate Fellows on Religion and Human Security
- Dec 7 | Call for Papers: Graduate Symposium on “The Beauty of Religion”
- Dec 7 | Anne Monius – Reading Group
- Nov 30 | Colloquium – Reason, Will, and Moral Insanity
- Nov 29 | RPS Reading Group
- Nov 26 | The Rise of Mahasena: The Transformation of Skanda- Karttikeya in North India from the Kusana to Gupta Empires.
- Nov 26 | Strange Brew: The Fictional Background to Yulu Encounter Dialogues
- Nov 26 | The Viracoliyam: Language, Literature Theory, and Religious Community, and Imagining Community through Commentary
- Nov 26 | Spectacular Compassion: ‘Natural’ Disaster and National Mourning in China’s Tibet
- Nov 26 | Julius Kirshner – Jews as Citizens in Late Medieval & Renaissance Italy: The Case of Isacco da Pisa
- Nov 26 | Jewish-Christian Dialogue & the Life of Wisdom: Engagements with the Theology of David Novak
- Nov 26 | Steven Weitzman – King Solomon and the Search for Wisdom: Reflections from an Unauthorized Biographer
- Nov 26 | Paul Mendes-Flohr – Hermann Levin Goldschmidt and the Legacy of German-Jewish Humanism
- Nov 23 | A Faithful Heresy: A Linguistic Analysis of the Use of Eschatological Adverbs
- Nov 23 | Munk Debates – Tony Blair – Christopher Hitchens
- Nov 12 | Mary Rose D’Angelo – Jewish Piety and Roman Rule: 4 Maccabees and the Propaganda of Trajan
- Nov 12 | Michael Brenner – Through the Lense of Auschwitz: Re-Writing the German-Jewish Past in Postwar Germany
- Nov 12 | Religion and Food Public Forum
- Nov 12 | The King Has Returned: Religion and Violence in Mainstream Films
- Nov 12 | Mourning Sovereignty: Finitude and Sacred Violence in the Khalsa Narrative
- Nov 12 | Sources and Sentiments in Sugata Saurabha
- Nov 12 | The Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture Series – Religion and Other Meaning Systems
- Nov 12 | The Trouble with Tribals: Indian Esoteric Buddhism and Fantasies of the Primitive.
- Nov 12 | New Voices, New Visions
- Nov 12 | The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army
- Nov 12 | Mongolian cultural history and historiography in the Tibetan Buddhist cultural world
- Oct 20 | Engagement in Tibet
- Oct 19 | Continuity and Discontinuity in the Thought of Emil Fackenheim
- Oct 19 | Who Was the Buddha?
- Sep 9 | IAHR
