Events

The CSRS Weekly Lecture Series

This series features weekly presentations by the various graduate, faculty, and visiting research fellows in residence at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society.

The Thursday Public Lecture Series will take place from 5:00-6:00 pm in the David Turpin Building, Room A110.  Light refreshments will be provided.

Audio recordings of past lectures are available on UVic's SoundCloud site and the videos for the John Albert Hall Lectures are available on our Vimeo page. 

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Sept. 12th, 2019	Rachel Brown and Michel Desjardins	Nourishing Religious Studies: What Food Reveals about Religion
Sept. 19th, 2019	Val Napoleon	Law and Hope
Sept. 26th, 2019	Jessica Pratezina	Disciples by Default: Growing up in Alternative Religious Movements
Oct. 3rd, 2019	Diarmaid MacCulloch	JAH Lecture: Christianity Past, Present and Future: The Big Picture
Oct. 8th, 2019	Diarmaid MacCulloch	JAH Lecture: Christianity and Islam: Drawing the Right Lessons from History
Oct. 17th, 2019	Victor Hori	Ritual Vulgarity in Zen Buddhism
Oct. 24th, 2019	Kathryn Chan	The Trouble with Collective Religious Freedom
Oct. 31st, 2019	Dulma Karunarathna	Women as Patrons of Religious Art in Sri Lanka: Some Social Implications
Nov. 7th, 2019	Andrew Perrin	(Re)discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Fact, Fable, and Finding the Dead Sea Scrolls
Nov. 21st, 2019	Tim Lilburn	Contemplative Practices, Contemplative Pedagogies
Nov. 28th, 2019	Graham Jensen	Unorthodoxies: William James and the Rise of Personal Religions in Canadian Modernist Poetry
Jan. 9th, 2020	Graham McDonough	Religious Diversity, Catholic Schooling and Pope Francis
Jan. 16th, 2020	Todd Klaiman	Merchants, Monastics, and Chinese National Identity in Malaya, 1904-1915
Jan. 23rd, 2020	Nicola Sanchez-Hood	Indigenous Reimagined: Exploring Virtual and Augmented Reality for Cultural Resurgence
Jan. 30th, 2020	Shereen El Feki	Crossing the Red Lines: What Sex Says About a Changing Arab World
Feb. 6th, 2020	Jordan Stanger-Ross	Holocaust Commemoration in Victoria: The Politics of Memory
Feb. 13th, 2020	Ambreen Hussaini	Contemporary Creative Expressions of the Qur’an in Pakistan
Feb. 27th, 2020	Walid Saleh	The Genealogy of a Discipline: Qur’an Commentary and Religious Transformation in the Modern Middle East
March 5th, 2020	Panel of experts	Religion, Spirituality and Ecology in the Anthropocene
March 12th, 2020	Davjola Ndoja	The Role of Music in the Extreme-Right Movement in Germany
March 19th, 2020	Gary Kuchar	Literature, Religion and the Senses of Place in the English Revolution
March 26th, 2020	Timothy Gosley	The Heart Coffer: Spiritual Explorations through Puppetry
April 2nd, 2020	Erica Greenup	Leaving Catholicism: Secularization among Women on Vancouver Island since the 1960s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Past Events:

May 8th, 2019	Kerry Sloan	'A Great Compassion': Spirituality in Métis Culture, Law and Diplomacy
May 15th, 2019	Pauline Ridge	Law and the Financing of Religion in a Secular State. To listen to Pauline Ridge's lecture, please visit our Soundcloud account.
May 22nd, 2019	David Tollerton	Religion and Public Holocaust Remembrance in Britain. To listen to David Tollerton's lecture, please visit our Soundcloud account.
May 29th, 2019	Kefen Zhou	Christianity and Chinese Women's Social Mobility, 1880-1950. To listen to Kefen Zhou's lecture, please visit our Soundcloud account.

 

Special Events

The CSRS hosts a range of special events including conferences, symposia, tours, and one-off lectures, often in collaboration with other UVic departments, community organizations, or affiliates such as MEICON.

• 10th Annual MEICON-BC Student Conference on the Middle East and the Islamic World

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Distinguished Lecture in Islam

Every two years the CSRS presents a lecture from an eminent scholar working in fields related to Islamic studies. A fund supporting this lecture series was established in 2007 by an anonymous donor who wished to increase the community's understanding of Islam.

The next Distinguished Lecture in Islam will take place during the 2018-19 academic year.

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Conferences, Seminars, & Symposiums

In collaboration with community and university partners the CSRS hosts special events such as conferences, seminars, and symposiums annually. Check back for information about upcoming events as they are schedulled.

March 15th, 2019 -- "Religion and its Others: Power, Sovereignty, and Politics in Indian Religions Past and Present" Sponsored by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. Please click here for the symposium agenda.

 

 

 

John Albert Hall Lectures

The John Albert Hall Lectures are a multi-part speaker series featuring expert perspectives on the changing role of religion in contemporary society. Support for this series is generously provided by the Anglican Diocese of BC John Albert Hall Trust. Lectures are free and open to all members of the public and university community. Video recordings of past John Albert Hall Lectures are available on the CSRS vimeo site.

For more information, visit our John Albert Hall page here.

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Centre-Cine Film Series

Each month from September through April, the CSRS presented a feature or documentary film as part of the Centre-Cine Film Series. The films are carefully chosen to explore questions of morality, culture, the search for meaning, and other themes arising from the human spiritual journey.

Every month Centre-Cine participants will be sent the name of a selected film. It is up to participants to locate and watch the film themselves. Everyone is then invited to meet for a group discussion on the film with CSRS Artist in residence, Terry Marner, acting as facilitator. All films in the series will be available on Netflix and most will be available from the Greater Victoria Public Library (GVPL) on DVD. Viewers may have to place a hold on the movie if they are using the GVPL.