Religion Research Seminar Series 2011-2012
Autumn Semester
Wednesday, 23 November 2011, Room 5.26, 4.30pm
Dr Naomi Appleton, Cardiff University
Jinas-to-be and Bodhisattvas: Paths to Perfection in Buddhist and Jain Multi-life Stories
Wednesday, 7 December 2011, Room 5.26, 4.30pm
Dr. Simon Brodbeck and Dr. William Johnson, Cardiff University
Initial considerations for a Harivamsha translation
Spring Semester
Thursday, 16 February 2012, Room 5.26, 5.10pm
Dr. Robert Wilkinson, Wesley College, Bristol
Kabbalah and 16th century Syriac Bibles
[Please note the different week-day and starting-time of this event!]
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, Room 5.26, 4.30pm
Dr. Laurence Totelin, Cardiff University
Godly Pharmaka in the early Roman Empire
Wednesday, 14 March 2012, Room 5.26, 4.30pm
Dr. Daniel King, Cardiff University
Ancient and late-antique translations and exegeses of Genesis 1:1-3
Wednesday, 21 March 2012, Room 5.26, 4.30pm
Dr. Nicholas Baker-Brian, Cardiff University
Materialism, Pork, Scatology and Cruelty: Augustine's Invective against the Manichaeans in his De moribus manichaeorum
Wednesday, 25 April 2012, Room 5.26, 4.30pm
Dr. Crystal Addey, University of Wales, Trinity St. Davids
Rationality, Ritual and Cosmology in Neoplatonism
Wednesday, 9 May 2012, Room 5.26, 4.30pm
Dr. Thomas Hunt, Cardiff University
TBA
[For enquiries about the series contact Josef Lössl, LosslJ@cf.ac.uk]