Seminars
Semester 1 Academic Year 2024-2025
All seminars take place on Thursdays from 11.15am to 12.45pm at the St Mary’s College Hall. For online registration, please email the Centre at [email protected].
Thursday 19 September 2024
‘Commonwealth Inter-Religious Graves: The Epistemology of the Dead in India’ (Theoretical Introduction to the CSRP ‘Buring the Dead’ Research Project – Milarepa Foundation), Professor Mario I. Aguilar (University of St. Andrews)
Thursday 26 September 2024
‘Theology and Surveillance: The State of the Field 2024’, Dr Eric Stoddart (University of St Andrews)
Thursday 3 October 2024
‘Hindu Nationalism emerging from narcissism of minor differences in Indo-Bangladesh borderlands’, Dr Sneha Roy (University of Edinburgh)
Thursday 10 October 2024
‘General reflections on lifelong research: memories, imagination, coincidences, ancestors and Colombia’, Dr Ann Simpson (University of St Andrews)
Thursday 17 October 2024
‘Rethinking Revelation in Hindu-Christian Dialogue: Engaging with Raimon Panikkar’s Opera Omnia‘, Shruti Dixit (University of St Andrews)
[Independent Learning Week]
Thursday 31 October 2024
‘Peace (śānti) and non-violence/harmlessness (ahimsā) in dialogue with the Hindu sage Sri Aurobindo and the Sāmkhya philosophy of the Bhagavad Gītā’, Dr Isaac Portilla (University of St Andrews)
Thursday 7 November 2024
‘Common prayer – Locally Inculturated yet Global?’, Aaron Pelot (University of St Andrews)
Thursday 14 November 2024
TBA, Filip Scherf (University of St Andrews)
Thursday 21 November 2024
‘The position of the Christ in the Interfaith Dialogue of Raimon Panikkar’, Mimi Lowry (University of St Andrews)