INCISE Launch Event – Lecture by Professor Naomi Goldenberg – Queer Theory meets Critical Religion (14 October 2016)
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Monthly Archives: October 2016
Islam & Social Justice – Sheikha Halima Krausen (Hamburg)
Photo Impressions of the INCISE launch
The Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice (INCISE), although already active since 1 May, celebrated its official launch on the 14th of October with a lecture by Professor Naomi Goldenberg (Ottawa) with the title Queer Theory Meets Critical Religion. Many people from CCCU, University of Kent, London, and the wider Southeast of England came to listen to the talk, the VC’s (Professor Rama Thirunamachandran) opening address and the Dean of Arts and Humanities’ (Dr Keith McLay) closing remarks. Professor Bee Scherer (Director of INCISE) introduced the keynote speaker.
Professor Rama Thirunamachandran (VC of CCCU), Professor Naomi Goldenberg (Ottawa), Professor Bee Scherer (Director of INCISE) and Professor Tony Lavender (Pro Vice-Chancellor)
Professor Rama Thirunamachandran (VC of CCCU) giving the opening address
Professor Scherer introduces Professor Naomi Goldenberg
Professor Goldenberg answering questions
Professor Goldenberg answering questions
Questions from the audience
Question time after the Keynote by Professor Goldenberg
From left to right: Professor Bee Scherer (Director of INCISE), Professor Rama Thirunamachandran (Vice-Chancellor of CCCU), Professor Naomi Goldenberg (Ottawa University) and Dr Keith McLay (Dean of Arts and Humanities)
Photos by Dr Patrick de Vries
Professor Bee Scherer on Buddhism and ‘Disability’
Variable Bodies, No Self: Toward a Socially Engaged Buddhist ‘Theology’ of ‘Disability’
by Professor Bee Scherer (Director of INCISE at Canterbury Christ Church University)
Invited presentation delivered at the 2016 International Conference of the Korean Society for Literature and Religion (6 July 2016, Sahmyook University)
For a longer treatment of the subject (now published) see:
B. Scherer ‘Variable Bodies, Buddhism and (No-)Selfhood: Towards Dehegemonized Embodiment’ in Chris Mounsey and Stan Booth (eds.) ‘The Variable Body in History’ Oxford: Peter Lang 2016 (QP in Focus 1), pp. 247-263.
See also B. Scherer ‘Buddhism and Disability: Toward a Socially Engaged Buddhist ‘Theology’ of Bodily Inclusiveness’ JIABU, Volume IX, 2016, pp. 26-35, accessible online at http://www.iabu.org/sites/default/files/JIABU-Vol9-ASEAN.pdf
Islam & Social Justice
2016-2017 Lecture/research seminar series
(Mondays, fortnightly, 5-6pm, venue Lg16 (subject to change), CCCU, North Holmes Campus, Canterbury)
| 17 Oct | Sheikha Halima Krausen (Hamburg): Islam and Social Justice | video |
| 31 Oct | Bojan Koltaj: Žižek on Islam | |
| 14 Nov | Fahid Qurashi: Muslim Radicalisation in Britain | |
| 28 Nov | Lynn Revell: Islamophobia | video |
| 05 Dec | Wim Peumans (University of Witwatersrand) – Queer Muslims in Belgium | video |
| 23 Jan | Simon Hayhoe (Bath University): Islamic and Christian Perspectives on Disability | video |
| 06 Feb | Tanya Halldórsdóttir: Islam and Gender in Yemen | video |
| 20 Feb | Rami Younes: Islam and Social Justice: Perspectives from Syria | video |
| 06 Mar | Zulfi Ali: Islam and Social Justice: Perspectives from Pakistan | video |
Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice 