Below is a list of events that will be hosted by the Religion and Diversity Project in 2016.
Speaker: Mary Jo Neitz (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Date: January 28, 2016, 4-5:30pm
Location: University of Ottawa, Simard Hall, Room 129, 60 University, Ottawa, Ontario
Lecture title: Religion and Emotion: Advancing a New Framework for Understanding Religious Cultures
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Date: February 2-3, 2016
Location: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
Facilitator: Mary Jo Neitz (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Thematic Component: Intellectual directions and research design
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Speaker: Guy Consolmagno (Vatican Observatory)
Date: February 11, 2016, 12-2pm
Location: University of Ottawa, Arts Building, 70 Laurier Avenue East, Room 509, Ottawa, Ontario
Lecture title: God's Mechanics: The Religious Life of Techies
Please confirm your attendance (info@religionandiversity.ca) before February 1, 2016, a lunch will be served.
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Date: March 17-18, 2016
Location: University of Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Organiser: Chair for the Management of Cultural and Religious Diversity and the Religion and Diversity Project
Lecturers: Massimo Introvigne, Christopher Helland, Susan Palmer, Donald Westbrook and Fabrizio Vecoli
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Speaker: Massimo Introvigne (Salesian Pontifical University)
Date: March 21, 2016, 1:30-3:30pm
Location: University of Montréal, Laval Campus, Laval, Québec
Lecture title: Le Grand Spirituel. L’influence des nouveaux mouvements religieux et de l’ésotérisme sur l’art moderne
Organisers: the Chair for the Management of Cultural and Religious Diversity in collaboration with the Religion and Diversity Project
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Speaker: James A. Beckford (University of Warwick)
Date: April 27, 2016, 7:30-9:30pm
Location: Pavillon 3200, rue Jean-Brillant, University of Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Lecture title: Le religieux et le social : contradiction ou tautologie?
Organisers: the Chair for the Management of Cultural and Religious Diversity in collaboration with the Religion and Diversity Project
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Date: May 3-4, 2016
Location: Montréal, Québec
Facilitator: Teemu Taira (University of Turku)
Thematic Component: Knowledge transfer (teaching and community)
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Date: May 5-6, 2016
Location: Hôtel de l'Institut à Montréal, Québec
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Date: September 13-14, 2016
Location: Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Organisers: Nancy Nason-Clark (University of New Brunswick) and Cathy Holtmann (Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research)
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Speaker: Robert Orsi (Northwestern University)
Date: September 29, 2016,5-6:30pm (reception from 6:30-7:30pm)
Location: Simard Hall, Room 125
Lecture title: What is Catholic About the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis?
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Organizers: Barbara Thériault (Montréal) and Thomas Schmidt-‐Lux (Leipzig)
Date: October 7-12, 2016
Location: Montréal, Québec
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Speakers: Monica Grigore, Sophie Coulombe, Alexandre Legault, Maria Tagliente, Barbara Thériault, Yanick Noiseux, Élise Dumont-Lagacé and Julien Beaumien
Date : 11 octobre, 2016
Location : l'Université de Montréal
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Speaker: Shekhar Hattangadi
Date: October 13, 2016, 4-5:30pm (reception from 5:30-6:30pm)
Location: Simard Hall, Room 129
Lecture title: India’s “Religious Suicides” and the Legal-Secular Question
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Facilitator: Sarah-Jane Page (Aston University, UK)
Date: November 2-3, 2016
Location: University of Ottawa
Theme: Results dissemination (conference and publication)
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