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, January 18, 2024, 1:00-3:00 pm → More details
First Presenter: Austin Simoes-Gomes
Title: Please Don’t Repeat This: Gossip as a Form of Ritual Criticism
Respondent: Simon Coleman
Second Presenter: Ian Turner
Title: Writing culture inside out: domestic ritual as I know, as I understand, as I remember
Respondent: Jayeeta Sharma, Department of Historical & Cultural Studies
Thursday, February 8, 2024, 1:00-3:00 pm → More details
First Presenter: Parnia Vafaeikia
Title: The Limits of the Modern Islamic State: Toward the Secular Mahdi
Respondent: Pamela Klassen
Second Presenter: Stephanie Duclos-King POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2024Title: Are They Saviors? Medical Missionaries in the Development Sector
Respondent: Simon Coleman
Thursday, February 29, 2024, 1:00-2:00 pm → More details
Presenter: Isaiah Ellis
Title: On Liquid Land: Religion, Infrastructure, and the State in the Southern Everglades Drainage District
postponed to Fall 2024 Thursday, March 21, 2024, 4:00-5:00 pm → More details
Presenter: Janani Mandayam ComarTitle: Caste, Literature, and Reading Publics: the Nantaṉār Carittiram in colonial and postcolonial Tamil country
Respondent: Christoph Emmrich
Thursday, April 11, 2024, 1:00-2:00 pm → More details
Presenter: Rebecca Runesson-Sanfridson
Title: Centurions as ‘Brothers’: Evidence of Early Intersections between the Roman Military and the Jesus Movement
Respondent: Ronald Charles
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 1:00-2:00 pm → More details
Presenter: Nabeel Jafri
Title: Quoting the Qur'an
Respondent: Nada Moumtaz