Events
A list of events taking place within the Department of the Study of Religions and its associated Centres can be found below. All are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.2012
January
12/01/12
- Numata Lecture: Anthropology, ethnography, and the study of Theravada Buddhism with an emphasis on Thailand
Professor Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
13/01/12
- Numata Lecture: ower-Protection and Buddhism: a Shan perspective
Professor Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
20/01/12
- Numata Lecture: Critiques and Classics: One, two, or many religions? Complexity and Thai religious practices
Professor Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
27/01/12
- Numata Lecture: Critiques and Classics: What is Thai Buddhism?
Professor Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
31/01/12
- Establishing a New Approach to the Beginning of Protestantism in China
Christopher Daily
31/01/12
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Tullio Lobetti
February
03/02/12
- Numata Lecture: Critiques and Classics: Gender
Professor Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
09/02/12
- Buddhist Eschatology and the Design of Dazhusheng Cave, Henan
Dr Wendi Adamek (University of Sydney)
10/02/12
- Numata Lecture: What sermons can tell us and why we don’t know much about them
Professor Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
20/02/12
- Theorizing the culturally unprecedented: Cultural difference as historical discontinuity after May Fourth
Dr Leigh Jenco (National University of Singapore)
22/02/12
- Inaugural Lecture of Zartoshty Professor Almut Hintze: Change and Continuity in the Zoroastrian Tradition
Zartoshty Professor Almut Hintze
Inaugural Lecture
23/02/12
- Phallicism and Fertility in Contemporary Japan: Ancient Traditions or Urban Myths?
Dr Stephen Turnbull (University of Leeds)
24/02/12
- Numata Lecture: Views from a Shan community: the annual ceremonial cycle
Professor Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
28/02/12
28/02/12
March
02/03/12
- Numata Lecture: Views from a Shan community: life cycle ceremonies
Professor Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
07/03/12
- Street Art and Graffiti in South Tel Aviv: Voices from the Urban Underground
Catherine Hezser, Professor of Jewish Studies, SOAS
08/03/12
- Women in Japanese Faith-Based Volunteer Groups: From Continuity to Innovation
Paola Cavaliere (University of Sheffield)
09/03/12
- Numata Lecture: Views from a Shan community: extraordinary events
Professor Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
20/03/12
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Mark Faulkner
20/03/12
- Research Notes on the Religious History of Pre-Modern China
Antonello Palumbo
22/03/12
- Biodiversity Conservation and Animal Rights: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives
21 March, 18:00-19:30: 12th Annual Jaina Lecture
Mahavira, Don Quixote and the history of ecological ethics and idealism
Michael Tobias (Santa Fe, New Mexico)22 March, 10:00-17:00: Symposium
22/03/12
- Catholic Missionaries and Medieval Japan
Dr Kenji Igawa (Osaka University)
23/03/12
- Numata Lecture: Views from a Shan community: Contemporary Shan Buddhist practices
Professor Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
April
11/04/12
- Courtauld conference ‘Buddhist Art Forum’
A four day conference “Buddhist Art Forum” with contributions from SOAS Buddhist studies staff and students, sponsored by the Robert H N Ho Foundation.
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2012/spring/apr11-14_BuddhistArtForum.shtml
11/04/12
- The International Buddhist Film Festival
Tenth anniversary season, the first IBFF in London since 2009.
http://www.buddhistfilmfoundation.org/events/ibff-continues-10th-anniversary-season-in-london/
19/04/12
- Invisible eclipses: social and religious factors in the history of Japanese calendrical astronomy, 877-1268
Kristina Buhrman (University of Southern California)
24/04/12
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Sarah Stewart
24/04/12
- The Christian Library from Turfan
Erica Hunter
26/04/12
- Some thoughts on Young Avestan yazatas
Professor Jean Kellens (Collège de France, Paris)
Presenting the Fifteenth Dastur Dr Sohrab Hormasji Kutar Memorial Lecture
May
03/05/12
- Christianity and sacred space in Nagasaki
Carla Tronu Montané (SOAS)
05/05/12
- Christianity in Iraq IX Seminar Day "Martyrdom in the Iraqi Church: historic and modern perspectives"
A Seminar Day to be held at the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, 10.30 - 4.30. For further enquiries, please contact Dr. Erica C D Hunter (eh9@soas.ac.uk) or consult the website www.easternchristianity.com
08/05/12
08/05/12
- New Findings on Relic Worship in South Asian Jainism
Peter Flügel
14/05/12
- Opening lecture: How Islam Saved the Jews
Prof. David J. Wasserstein (Vanderbilt University, U.S.A)
15/05/12
- Seminar One:The World Muhammad Made
Prof. David J. Wasserstein (Vanderbilt University, U.S.A)
16/05/12
- Seminar Two: The Great Westwards Shift
Prof. David J. Wasserstein (Vanderbilt University, U.S.A)
17/05/12
- Seminar Three: How It Really Was
Prof. David J. Wasserstein (Vanderbilt University, U.S.A)
28/05/12
- Critical Thinking in Buddhist Studies – An Exploratory Worksho
- We have great pleasure in inviting you to a one-day workshop titled ‘Critical Thinking in Buddhist Studies - An Exploratory Workshop’, hosted by the SOAS Centre for Buddhist Studies.
June
October
05/10/12
- International Workshop: Where Art Meets Ritual
This workshop aims to examine aspects of the Japanese religious and artistic experience through the analysis of texts, images and performance. The papers presented will focus on the visual and semantic analysis of Buddhist paintings and explore ritual performance, including rituals which do not necessarily belong to a category of ‘religion.’
09/10/12
- Of Monks and Embryos: Ritual Gestation in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
Dr Lucia Dolce, SOAS, University of London
16/10/12
- Gay Rights, the Devil, and the End Times: Public Religion and the Enchantment of the Homosexuality Debate in Zambia
Dr Adriaan van Klinken, Centre for Gender & Religions Research, SOAS, University of London
November
20/11/12
- Spirit Possession in Brazil: Insights into a Complex Research Field
Dr Bettina Schmidt, School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies, Trinity Saint David University of Wales
23/11/12
- The Great Image has No Form: Towards a Daoist Visual Theory
Dr Gil Raz (Dartmouth)
24/11/12
- Religion and Diaspora: African Migrants' Religious Networks in Britain and Europe
The list of speakers is confirmed in the programme
This one-day event brings together African Muslim and Christian religious practitioners with historians, anthropologists and scholars of religion
30/11/12
- Schopenhauer: Europe's First Buddhist?
Dr Urs App
December
11/12/12
- Title to be confirmed
Dr Benedetta Lomi, Department of the Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London
