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Events in the Humanities - Seminars

Further information in relation to:

  • University 125 Lectures in Humanities Schools;
  • Conferences taking place in Humanities Schools;
  • Seminar series linked to research networks, groups and centres in Humanities Schools;
  • CHRI events supported by Cardiff Humanities Research Institute.

Contact BlackwellRM@cf.ac.uk to add to, or amend, details on this page.

 

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Crime Narratives in Context Network

Research in Progress Seminars, and Visiting Speakers including:

  • Christopher Hood (CARBS): 'Narratives of the World's Worst Plane Crash: Flight JL 123 in Print and on Screen'
  • Claire Wardle (JOMEC): 'Portrayals of Crime and Justice in the Media'
  • Cecile Brich (Leeds University): 'The Construction of Criminal Subjectivity in Foucault'.

Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK (CSI-UK) 

Public Lecture Series 2009, with the Islamic Society Cardiff University and Muslim Council for Wales. 

A series of nine public lectures January to March 2009, held Tuesday evenings, 7-8 p.m. in room 0.36 Humanities Building. Including:

  • 3/02/09: Ziauddin Sardar: 'Islam, Public Space and British Muslims'
  • 10/02/09: Sadek Hamid: 'Young, Muslim and British: an introduction to a field'
  • 17/02/09: Shaykh Amjad Mohammad: 'Recent Hanafi Fatwa in the British Context'

Ireland-Wales Network 

Seminar series 2008/9 takes place in Humanities Building, Room 2.47, Tuesday evenings at 5.15 p.m.. Speakers include:

  • 24/02/09: Damian Walford Davies (Aberystwyth University): 'Yeats said that: R.S. Thomas and W.B. Yeats'
  • 24/-3/09: Alice Entwistle (University of Glamorgan): 'Contemporary Irish and Welsh Poetry'
  • 5/05/09: Malcolm Ballin (Cardiff University): 'Irish and Welsh Periodicals in English: generic and cultural traditions'.

Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture (CLARC)

Seminar Series 2009
Interactions between Christianity and Islam in Late Antiquity including:

  • Dirk Krausmuller: Christians and Muslims in 8th Century Gaza: the Hagiographical Evidence
  • Saira Malik: The Circulation of Ptolemy's 'Optics' in the Arabic scientific tradition
  • Steven Ring: A verse from Matthew showing the Syriac Gospels in their Historical Context.