DSR Colloquia 2023-2024

Thursday, September 28, 2023, 1:00-3:00 pm → More details

First Presenter: Jeizelle Solitario
Title: Situating Couples for Christ: History, Religion, and Politics in the Philippine Context.
Respondent: Kevin O'Neill

Second Presenter: Sadaf Ahmed
Title: Love and Prayer: Parent-Child Intimacies in a Muslim Diaspora
Respondent: Pamela Klassen

Thursday, November 9, 2023, 1:00-3:00 pm → More details

First Presenter: Andrea Wollein
Title: Water Tank: How Tibetan Buddhists activate the forgotten history of a Newar Buddhist monastery
Respondent: Rory Lindsay

Second Presenter: Tanisha Chakma 
Title: Remaking the Rāmāyaṇa in Tagore's Bengal
Respondent: Rijuta Mehta, Department of English

Thursday, November 23, 2023, 1:00-3:00 pm → More details

First Presenter: Omer Hacker 
Title: The End of Time? Temporalizing the New Workplace
Respondent: Julie Chen, Faculty of Information

Second Presenter: Edward Escalon Jr.
Title: Is the Field in Ethnographic Fieldwork the Same as the Field in Missionary Field?
Respondent: Pamela Klassen

Thursday, November 30, 2023, 1:00-3:00 pm  → More details

First Presenter: Mahshid Zandi 
Title: Governed Sacralization; Commemorative Practices of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) in Contemporary Iran
Respondent: Nada Moumtaz

Second Presenter: Anne-Marie Fowler 
Title: Hermann Cohen's Logic of Origin as a Non-Linear Temporal Logic: What Questions could a Jewish Messianic Lens Bring to Artificial Systems Learning?
Respondent: Michael Rosenthal, Department of Philosophy

Thursday, December 7, 2023, 10:00-12:00  → More details

First Presenter: Katarina Pejovic
Title: Magician and Martyr, Sorcerer and Saint: St. Cyprian of Antioch and the Transmission of Occult Knowledge, Identity, and Authority
Respondent: Kevin O'Neill

Second Presenter: Paul Kim 
Title: The Concept of Rational Instability in Kant's Philosophy of Religion
Respondent: Michael Rosenthal, Department of Philosophy

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 2:00-3:00 pm → More details 

Presenter: Andrew Dade
Title: Ritual Labour and Buddhist Metaphysics:  Samplings from The Paṭṭhāna Puja of Unending Sound (1983)
Respondent: Amanda Goodman

Thursday, February 8, 2024, 1:00-2:00 pm → More details

Presenter: Parnia Vafaeikia 
Title: The Limits of the Modern Islamic State: Toward the Secular Mahdi 
Respondent: Pamela Klassen