Student - staff seminar series

The Forum invites research students and staff to present their work in progress on religion; contributions are welcome from all disciplines and any geographical foci. The seminars will take place on the first and third Wednesdays of every month, and are open to the general public.

Please send an email to Effie Fokas at religionforum@lse.ac.uk if you are interested in presenting your work in the seminar series.

2008 Michaelmas Term Seminars

16 October: Blasphemy, freedom of expression and human rights (Cassandra Patrick, Roehampton University, Department of Theology and Religious Studies), and                                                        Isaiah Berlin's value pluralism and multi-faith religious education (Hugo Whatley, King's College, Department for Education and Professional Studies)

30 October: Hadrian: from a Jewish perspective (Nathan Alfred, International Jewish Center, Brussels), and                                                                                                                                     Learning from history? The failure to assimilate Muslims in sixteenth-century Spain (Mia Rodriguez-Salgado, LSE, History Department)

13 November: 'Sectarian socialization' - experiences of those raised in sectarian movements (Amanda van Eck, LSE, Inform), and                                                                                                         Bible Society: Engaging the public in contemporary England (Matthew Engelke, LSE, Anthropology Department)

27 November: Faith-based Organisaations and challenges to achieving Millennium Development Goals in Kenya (Reginald Nalugala, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies), and                                        The anomaly of Hindu-Muslim 'syncretism' in a divided Gujarat: an analysis of religious identities in a local Sufi shrine (Carolyn Heitmeyer, LSE, Anthropology Department)

11 December: The Empire Strikes Back? Mission in the Worldwide Anglican Communion (Rebecca Catto, Exeter University, Department of Sociology), and                                                                Accusations of Demon Possession and witchcraft against children in the UK African diaspora (Jean La-Fontaine, LSE, Anthropology Department)

Seminars will take place on Thursdays, in the Cañada Blanch Room (J116) Cowdray House 5:30-7pm

Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE. Tel: 0207 193 2403

(Find the ‘J’ building on this map: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm)

PAST SEMINARS:

20 February 2008: Ronan McCrea (LSE, European Institute) on 'Limitations on religion in a liberal democratic polity: Christianity and Islam in the Public Order of the European Union', AND Meyda Yegenoglu (Middle East Technical University, Ankara) on 'Veiled theats and Islam in Europe'.

5 March 2008: Sarah Abramson (LSE, Sociology) on 'Continuity and Anglo-Jewish youth movements', AND Yohai Hakak (LSE, Sociology post-doctoral fellow) on 'Excellence of equality in the name of God: the case of Ultra Orthodox enclave education in Israel'.

19 March 2008: George St. Clair (LSE, Anthropology) on 'An underground Pentecostal movement in Sao Paulo', AND Paul-Francois Tremlett (SOAS Research Fellow) on 'Post-structuralism and the Bible in the Philippines: high theory or critical amnesia?'

7 May 2008: Fang-Long Shih (LSE Taiwan Culture Research Programme) on 'Politics, Culture and Religion in Taiwan'

21 May 2008: Justin Gest (LSE Government Department) on 'The Bande A Part: Young Muslims and the Democratically Alienated', AND Abby Day (University of Sussex Anthropology post-doctoral fellow) on 'Believing in Belonging: An Exploration of the Social Contexts and Constructions of Belief'.

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