Winter 2025 Semester
Thursday, January 9, 2025, 1:00-2:00 pm → More details
Presenter: Mohannad Abusarah
Title: Living Traditionally: Palestinian Ulama and Society in the first half of the 19th Century
Respondent: J. Barton Scott
Thursday, February 6, 2025, 1:00-2:00 pm → More details
Presenter: Amelia Brownridge
Title: Sea Imagery and the Female Body in the Hodayot
Respondent: Tracy Lemos
Thursday, March 6, 2025, 1:00-3:00 pm → More details
First Presenter: Michael Ajayi, 1:00-2:00 pm
Title: Religion, Ethnicity and Party Politics: the 2023 Presidential Election in Southwest Nigeria
Respondent: Ruth Marshall
Second Presenter: Alison Cleverley, 2:00-3:00 pm
Title: Benefaction in Ancient Asia Minor
Respondent: John Kloppenborg
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 1:00-3:00 pm → More details
First Presenter: Kainat Bashir, 1:00-2:00 pm
Title: Mannat: Human and Material Agency at the Mariamabad Shrine
Respondent: Corinne Dempsey (Nazareth University)
Second Presenter: Vivek Shah, 2:00-3:00 pm
Title: Probing the Akashic records: the metaphysics of space in early modern Vedanta
Respondent: Srilata Raman
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 1:00-3:00 pm → More details
First Presenter: Christina Gousopoulos, 1:00-2:00 pm
Title: Christianization, Networks, and the Decline of Greco-Roman Cults
Respondent: Andreas Bendlin
Second Presenter: Thinley Gyatso, 2:00-3:00 pm
Title: Making of Sacred Earth: Construction of nature, space, and place in the Buddhist Himalayas
Respondent: Libbie Mills
Fall 2024 Semester
Thursday, October 3, 2024, 1:00-2:00 pm → More details
Presenter: Sarina Simmons
Title: Crossing the River: Mennonite Migration to Manidoo Ziibi
Respondent: Joseph Wiebe (University of Alberta)
Thursday, November 28, 2024, 1:00-2:00 pm → More details
Presenter: Sloane Geddes
Title: An Aesthetics of Wonder: Devotion, Vismaya, and Yamaka on the Malaya Mountain
Respondent: Jessica Lockhart (Head of Research, Old Books New Science Lab, University of Toronto)
Thursday, December 12, 2024, 1:00-3:00 pm → More details
Presenter: Stephanie Duclos-King
Title: Are They Saviours?: Medical Missionaries and Development Services in South India
Respondent: Simon Coleman