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Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism

Professor Mohammad Khalil scrutinises the claim by New Atheists like Richard Dawkins that Islam is a fundamentally violent religion

Book Launch: Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective

A new theoretical framework for how democracy can emerge in the Middle East and wider Muslim world, where political conflicts over religion often predominate.

History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American Art

Collapsing Time with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

The 2022 Terra Lectures in American Art centre on Latinx art, with an emphasis on Chicanx (Mexican American) artists, and the theme of migration – of people, ideas, and artworks, from the seventeenth century to today.

Episode 8: Liberatory orientations in African(a) and South Asian philosophies

In this episode, Aamir Kaderbhai (Mst Study of Religions), Heeyoung Tae (BA Philosophy, Politics, & Economics), and alicehank winham (MPhil Buddhist Studies) converse with Dr. Anatanand Rambachan (Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College),

Michael Karayanni - Religion and State among the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel: A Multicultural Entrapment

Michael Karayanni considers how the Israeli construction of religion and politics shapes the live Palestinian-Arabs in the state.

Episode 5: A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor and cross-cultural philosophy with Dr. Roy Tzohar

In this episode, MPhil Buddhist Studies students Cody Fuller and alicehankwinham interview Professor Tzohar (associate professor in the East and South Asian Studies Department at Tel Aviv University).

Episode 4: Academic, Moral, and Spiritual Philosophy from the Ramakrishna Order

Dylan Watts (UG physics and philosophy) and Aamir Kaderbhai (MSt study of religion) interview Swami Medhananda, ordained monk of the Ramakrishna Order and Senior Research Fellow at the Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education, Mysore, India

Episode 3: Approaches to South Asian philosophies

Aamir Kaderbhai and Heeyoung Tae interview Mini Chandran, Professor in the department of humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy at Harvard University.

Episode 2: How students grapple with specialising in marginalised philosophies

How do you make marginalised philosophies accessible? What are the challenges to South Asian and African(a) philosophy specialists within Anglo-European universities? Find out more in this episode.

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Dostoevsky at 200: A roundtable

An event with leading scholars and the novelist Alex Christofi, to mark the bicentenary of Dostoevsky's birth by discussing new approaches to the work and life of this titanic figure.

The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands

In this seminar we hosted David Anderson of Warwick University as he presented on "The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands".

The Place of Religion After the Uprisings

Dr. Shadi Hamid (Brookings Institution; contributing writer, The Atlantic) and Professor Nadia Oweidat (Kansas State University) give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday seminar series. Chaired by Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College).

Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?

Maha Yahya (PhD, Director, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre) Maysoon Pachachi (Film director) give a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St. Antony's College, Oxford).

OxPeace Conference 2009: The Serious Study of Peace

Forcing the End Times: US Christian Zionism and Israel

Breakout session on 'Religion, Peace and Conflict.' First talk: Carlo Aldrovandi, Ph.D. candidate, Peace Studies, Univ. of Bradford, on 'Forcing the End Times: US Christian Zionism and Israel'.

Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement

Part of the Middle East Centre Women's Rights Research Seminars. With Dr Mine Yildirim Chair: Dr Nazila Ghanea (Department for Continuing Education,University of Oxford).

Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation

For this seminar today we hosted Kwasi Konadu (Colgate University). Professor Konadu, Colgate University, spoke about his book, Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation.

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: Imagined Journeys: Pilgrimage, Diplomacy, and Colonialism in Medieval Europe

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

Justice and Islamic Law: Mazalim Courts and Legal Reform

Professor Jonathan Brown, Georgetown University, gives a talk for the Middle East seminar series. Chaired by Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College).

Sensing the Sacred: The Materiality and Aurality of Religious Texts

Laetitia Pilgrim, a final year history student at Queen's, gives a talk to accompany her exhibition at The Queen's college.

‘Arriving before us’: seeing, ingenuity and imagination in Dante: Simon Gilson's Inaugural lecture

During his inaugural lecture, Professor Gilson will show how ideas about vision and cognate faculties such as the wits and the imagination are central to Dante’s masterpiece, the Commedia.

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