Religion, Crisis and Disaster

Seminar Series

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Start time: 8am UK | 9am Euro | 4pm Perth | 7pm Sydney
Except for Coleman: Tues 23, 8pm Toronto | Weds 24, 9am Perth | Weds 24, 12pm Sydney.

Feb 24

Prof Birgit Meyer (Utrecht, Philosophy and Religious Studies) ‘Religion and the Pandemic’.

March 3

Prof Simon Coleman (Toronto, Anthropology and Religious Studies) ‘Pilgrimage Through the Pandemic: Crisis, Contagion and the Remaking of Presence’.

March 10

Dr Ramon Sarro (Oxford ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, Anthropology) ‘1921-2021: One Hundred Years of Crisis and Prophecy’.

March 17

Dr Richard Vokes (The ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Western Australia, Anthropology & Sociology), Prof Cristina Rocha, & Dr Kathleen Openshaw (Western Sydney, Anthropology) ‘Becoming Burundian, African and Black in Australia: Pentecostalism, Disruption, and the Everyday Politics of Place’.

March 31

Dr Katrien Pype (Leuven, Anthropology and African Studies) ‘Kinshasa’s Pastors and Sex Scandals: Reconsidering Exposure, Accountability, and Sacred Bodies’.

April 7

Prof David Gellner (Oxford ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, Anthropology) ‘Religion and Crisis in Nepal’.

April 14

Dr Sam Han (ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Western Australia, Anth & Sociology) ‘Shincheonji and Covid-19: Observations on Biopolitical Mediatization in South Korea’.

April 21

Dr. Martijn Oosterbaan (Utrecht, Anthropology) ‘Mystical in/security: Perpetual Crises, Religion and Urban Margins Across the Globe’.

April 28

Prof Clara Saraiva (Nova Lisboa, Anthropology) ‘Is God in the House Tonight? Ritual Despair and Empty Temples’.

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