Intercalated research seminar and event calendar
2012 events
A full list of seminars and talks for 2012 will be announced shortly:
Tuesday 17 January, 11.15 in Room 2E, Chesham Building
RIST seminar
Professor Vernon White (Canon Theologican, Westminster Abbey; Visiting Professor King’s College London)
‘Narrative, Freedom and telos: reflections on where meaning and purpose can be found with some help from Hans Frei’
Thursday 19 January 2012, 16.30 in Room 2E, Chesham Building
Religion & Social Sciences research seminar
Dr Robert Lambert (St Andrews)
'Countering Al-Qaeda in London'
Thursday 26 January 2012, 16.30 in Room 2E, Chesham Building
Religion & Social Sciences research seminar
Dr Viviane Crowley
Neo-Paganism in the United Kingdom
Thursday, 26 January, 17.30 in the River Room, King’s Building
A Joint Jewish Studies & Postcolonial Studies Seminar
Professor Aamir Mufti (UCLA)
'Jewishness as Minority: Postcolonial Perspectives on the Limits of Enlightenment'
Tuesday 31 January, 11.15 in Room 2E, Chesham Building
RIST seminar
Professor Gavin d’Costa (Professor of Catholic Theology, University of Bristol)
‘Does the Catholic Church teach mission to the Jews?’
* Wednesday 01 February 2012, 18.00 in the Council Room, King's Building
The Maccabaean Lecture 2012
Dr François Guesnet (University College London)
"The Great Sir, Unique Among His People": Visions of Jewish Community in the Tributes to Sir Moses Montefiore
Thursday 02 February 2012, 16.00 in the Small Committee Room, King’s Building
Joint Seminar with the Centre for Hellenic Studies and the Religion & Social Sciences research seminar
Polina Tambakaki (KCL)
"Language & Religion in modern Greece: music and national identity"
Nikos Michalilidis (Princeton University)
“Don’t play the infidel’s instrument, it’s a sin”: religion, music & memory in contemporary Turkey"
* Friday 03 February 2012, K2.31, King's Building
Religious Literacy Day
We invite prospective students to come and visit the Department! RSVP to trs@kcl.ac.uk
* Thursday 09 February 2012, 18.00 in The Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29), King's Building
The Ethel M Wood Lecture 2012
Professor Judith Lieu (Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge)
Marcion and the Corruption of the Gospel
Tuesday 14 February, 11.15 in Room 2E, Chesham Building
RIST seminar
Rt. Rev. Dr Richard Cheetham (Bishop of Kingston)
‘Truth or Trivia: Attitudes to Religious Belief in Public Institutions in England’
Wednesday, 15 February, 17.30 in the Council Room, King’s Building
Jewish Studies seminar
Professor Shmuel Feiner (Bar-Ilan University)
'Religion and Secularisation in Modern Jewish History'
Thursday 16 February 2012, 16.30 in Room 2E, Chesham Building
Religion & Social Sciences research seminar
Professor Maleiha Malik (King’s College London)
"Religions, law, & religious courts in a liberal democracy – minority legal orders in the UK"
Tuesday 28 February 2012, 17.00 in Room 2E, Chesham Building
Jewish Studies research seminar
Dr. Daniel Weiss (Cambridge University)
'Human violence and divine violence in Walter Benjamin and in classical rabbinic literature'
Thursday 01 March 2012, 16.30 in Room 2E, Chesham Building
Religion & Social Sciences research seminar
Dr Hermione Harris (School of Oriental & African Studies – SOAS)
'Nigerian Pentecostalism in the UK: the Cherubim & Seraphim in London'
* Friday 02 March 2012, K2.31, King's Building
Religious Literacy Day
We invite prospective students to come and visit the Department! RSVP to trs@kcl.ac.uk
Tuesday 06 March, 11.15 in Room 2E, Chesham Building
RIST seminar
Rev. Prof. Nicholas Sagovsky (Whitelands Professorial Fellow in Christian Tradition and Contemporary Society, Roehampton University)
‘Haerle’s Dogmatik in English: an Introduction to the Introduction?’
Thursday 15 March 2012, 16.30 in Room 2E, Chesham Building
Religion & Social Sciences research seminar
Dr Andrew Dawson (Lancaster University)
"Spirit possession in a new religious context: Santo Daime in contemporary Brazil"
Tuesday 20 March,11.15 in Room 2E, Chesham Building
RIST seminar
Dr Daniel Castelo (Associate Professor of Theology, School of Theology, Seattle University; John Templeton Award for Theological Promise)
‘Pentecostalism as a Mystical Tradition’
Thursday 22 March 2012, 16.30 in Room 2E, Chesham Building
Religion & Social Sciences research seminar
Dr Andrew Yip (Nottingham University)
"A multi-faith exploration of religious young adults’ sexuality: meanings and connections"