Geography seminar: 12 December

Institute of Geography seminar series

Timothy Oakes, University of Colorado
Faiths on Display: Religion, Tourism, and the Chinese State
12 December at 3.30, Old Library, Drummond Street

(Followed by wine and nibbles)  All Welcome.

Tim is a cultural geographer who works in China on themes related to cultural industries, development, tourism and situated identities within the broader Chinese context.

http://geography.colorado.edu/people/faculty_member/oakes_timothy

Watch/listen to UoE debate on Sectarianism

Audio and video recordings of last month’s debate on Sectarianism in Scotland are now available online here:

http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/centres/scdt/PastEvents2011.htm#Sectarianism23052011

 

 

Watch online now: Grace Davie seminar, March 2011

Grace Davie’s recent seminar in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh can be viewed online HERE …

Grace Davie, University of Exeter, probably needs no introduction. She is a leading sociologist of religion and author of, amongst other works: The Sociology of Religion (2007); Europe, the Exceptional Case. Parameters of Faith in the Modern World (2002); Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates (2000); Religion in Britain since 1945: Believing without Belonging (1994).

Professor Davie spoke to the topic of “Understanding Religion in Modern Europe: A Continuing Debate” as part of the University of Edinburgh’s Sociology Seminar series on 09 March 2011

Edinburgh debate: Sectarianism in Scotland: Myth or Reality?, 23 May 2011

Note that this is a free but ticketed event – for more info and tickets see here:

http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/centres/scdt/events.htm#Sectarianism23052011

The Scottish-Irish Group and the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies present an evening of debate and discussion

Monday 23 May 2011, 6.00pm, University of Edinburgh (venue tbc)

The major recent controversy over the perceived issue of sectarian problems in Scotland has stimulated much national soul-searching, media comment, both at home and abroad, and political reactions. But the voice of most of those in the universities who study this problem from an academic perspective has been little heard. This event will bring together a number of scholars from the University of Edinburgh with different views on this complex subject in an evening discussion to be chaired by the distinguished journalist and commentator, Joyce McMillan.

The members of the panel are:

Professor Thomas M Devine, Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography and Director of the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies

Mr Owen Dudley Edwards, Honorary Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Dr John Kelly, Lecturer in Sport and Recreation Business Management, School of Education

Dr Michael Rosie, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social and Political Science

The MacCormick Lectures 2011, Edinburgh Law School

A CHRISTIAN EUROPE?

Joseph Weiler (NYU Law School

 

23 May 2011
Is there a Space for a Cross on the Walls of European Integration?
Lecture Theatre 175, Old College 17:30 to 19:00

24 May 2011
What in Christian Culture may enrich European Self-­Understanding?
Lecture Theatre 175, Old College 17:30 to 19:00

25 May 2011
On the Place of (Christian) Virtues in the European Discourse of Values
Lecture Theatre 175, Old College 17:30 to 19:00

26 May 2011
Concluding Roundtable Discussion
Lorimer Room, Old College 09:00 to 12:00

Please contact
Law.events@ed.ac.uk
for further information

Upcoming Events – Aberdeen and Edinburgh

KING JAMES VERSION SEMINARS – ABERDEEN

The Department of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen has organised a public lecture series to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. There are six lectures, all given by specialists in the field, examining the theological, political and sociological context of the KJV, its place in Scottish history and its contributions to English literature. Lectures begin 1 March 2011 and are held in the King’s College Conference Centre.

Full information: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/king-james-bible/

 

 

EVENTS IN EDINBURGH

Three events here at UoE that you may not have spotted:

(Taken from the IASH bulletin board – http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/bullbrd.html )

 

Thu. 10 Feb.

Trevor Griffiths (University of Edinburgh):

“Never on a Sunday? Scotland, Cinema and the Sabbath, 1896-1950″

Scottish History Seminar 5.15 pm, Room G.16, Doorway 4, Old Medical School Quad, Teviot Place

 

Fri. 25 Feb.

David Fergusson, Liz Bondi, Gavin Miller and Steve Sutcliffe (University of Edinburgh):

“Theology and Therapy in Scotland: an interdisciplinary discussion of an oral history project”

Celtic & Scottish Studies 1.10 pm, Conference Room, 1st Floor, 27 George Square

 

Wed. 23 Mar.

Owen Dudley Edwards (Edinburgh):

“Modern Scottish Catholicism: A Reappraisal”

Scottish Church History Society 4.00 pm, Senate Room, Free Church College

Grace Davie Seminar, March 2011

Grace Davie, University of Exeter, probably needs no introduction. She is a leading sociologist of religion and author of, amongst other works: The Sociology of Religion (2007); Europe, the Exceptional Case. Parameters of Faith in the Modern World (2002); Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates (2000); Religion in Britain since 1945: Believing without Belonging (1994).

Professor Davie will be speaking on the topic of “Understanding Religion in Modern Europe: A Continuing Debate” as part of the University of Edinburgh’s Sociology Seminar series – all very welcome

Where and when:

09 March 2011, 11am-1pm,

Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square,

Seminar Room 2 (ground floor)

South Asian Seminar 18/11/10 cancelled

Please note that Aminah Arif’s seminar at the Centre for South Asian Studies, scheduled for 18th November, has been cancelled.

Critical Reflections on Indigenous Religions: A Symposium, 27 November 2010

Indigenous Religions: A Symposium

The Department of Religious Studies and the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies University of Edinburgh, UK

Critical Reflections on Indigenous Religions: A Symposium
27 November 2010
School of Divinity, Mound Place, University of Edinburgh

Current programme includes presentations by:

Dr Graham Harvey, Open University, UK; Professor Ulrich Berner, University of Bayreuth, Germany; Professor Jens Peter Schjødt, University of Aarhus, Denmark;  Professor Carole Cusack, University of Sydney, Australia; Dr Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz, University of Stirling;  Dr Bettina Schmidt, University of Wales Trinity St. David; Mr Gemechu Jemal Geda, Bayreuth Int. Graduate School of African Studies, Germany; Dr Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University, Leeds; Dr Emily Lyle, University of Edinburgh

Cost: £25 (£15 students/unwaged) – includes teas/coffees and lunch

For registration forms/more information please contact Chris Cotter
(c.cotter@sms.ed.ac.uk) and/or Elijah Obinna (e.o.obinna@sms.ed.ac.uk)

 

Programme

8:45 – 9:10 am  Registration (Foyer School of Divinity, New College)

9:10 am  Welcome

9:15 –10:00 am   Dr Graham Harvey, Open University, UK   ‘Why Study Indigenous Religions?’

10:00 – 10:45 am Professor Ulrich Berner, University of Bayreuth, Germany  ‘Religious Traditions: Kinship-based and/or Universal? Examples of Discourses from European and African Religious History’

11:15 – 12:00 noon   Professor Jens Peter Schjødt, University of Aarhus, Denmark  ‘Methodological and Theoretical Problems in Dealing with Orally Based Religions of the Past: The Case of Pre-Christian Scandinavia’

12:15 – 1:00 pm   Professor Carole Cusack, University of Sydney, Australia  ‘The Encounter between Paganism and Christianity: Inventing “Indigenous” and “World Religions” in the Early Middle Ages’

1:45 – 2:30 pm.   Dr Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz, University of Stirling  ‘Don Cristóbal, Llocllayhuancupa and the Virgin: The Battle of Words in a Colonial Quechua Conversion Narrative’

2:30 – 3:15 pm  Dr Bettina Schmidt, University of Wales Trinity St. David  ‘The Spirit White Feather in Sao Paulo: How the Native American Has Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Religion’

3:15 – 4:00 pm Mr Gemechu Jemal Geda, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, Germany ‘Irrecha: An Indigenous Oromo Thanksgiving Ceremony of the Oromo for their God Waaqa’

4:30 – 5:15 pm  Dr Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University, Leeds  ‘Druidry and the Definition of Indigenous Religion’

5:15 – 6:00 pm   Dr Emily Lyle, University of Edinburgh  ‘Defining the Religion that Lay behind the Self-Colonisation of Europe’

6:00 – 6:30 pm  Closing Panel and Discussion on the Symposium led by Professor James Cox,  Dr Afe Adogame and Dr Steven Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh Seminars in mid-November

A handful of relevant upcoming seminars ….

in UoE’s College of Humanities and Social Science, as taken from the IASH Bulletin Board

TUESDAY, 16 NOVEMBER

Centre for the Study of World Christianity Seminar

4.00 pm, Room 1.07, New College.

Professor Brian Stanley (Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh): “Discerning the Future of World Christianity: Vision and Blindness at the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910″.

WEDNESDAY, 17 NOVEMBER

Religious Studies Seminar

2.00 – 3.30 pm, Martin Hall, New College, Mound Place.

David Marshall (Programme Co-ordinator for the Archbishop of Canterbury’s “Building Bridges” Christian-Muslim seminar): “Building Bridges: An Initiative of the Archbishop of Canterbury in Christian-Muslim dialogue”.

THURSDAY, 18 NOVEMBER

Centre for South Asian Studies

5.00 pm, 7 Buccleuch Place.

Aminah Arif: “Young ‘Born Again’ Muslims in Bangalore”. – NB, this seminar has been CANCELLED

History of Art Research Seminar

5.15 pm, Lecture Room 1, 20 Chambers Street.

Dr. Alex Bremner (Architecture, University of Edinburgh): “Architecture on the Edge: Reinventing Disciplinary Space in the Anglican Church Abroad”.

FRIDAY, 19 NOVEMBER

Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World

1.00 pm, Room G/22, 19 George Square.

Frederic Volpi (University of St. Andrews): “Political Islam Observed”.

Social Anthropology Seminar

3.00 – 5.00 pm, Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building.

Kostas Retsikas (University of London): “Becoming sacred: humanity and divinity in East Java, Indonesia”.