Religion, Disability and Mental Health | Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice

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

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Date	Time	Event	Location
16-Sep	2:30pm	Professor Rob Hattam (University of South Australia) Research pedagogy in an urban region serving high poverty communities	Lg25
01-Oct	6:15pm	Julie Parker – The Platonic Myths – Community Arts & Education
10-Oct	10am-3pm	World Mental Health Day Speakers: Yasmin Ishaq (Open Dialogue Specialist), Bee Scherer, Adele Phillips School of Public Health, Midwifery and Social Work/INCISE. More info and registration at here. (photos and video)	Broadstairs Campus, Main Hall
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14-Oct	5:30pm	Professor Naomi Goldenberg (Ottawa) – Queer Theory meets Critical Religion – INCISE Launch celebration (PDF/video)	Og46
15-Oct	6:15pm	Chris Pike – The Detective, the Shulamite and the Garden of Dreams – Community Arts & Education
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21-Oct	1pm	Research Theory Roundtable – Researcher Development Programme	Af33
29-Oct	6:15pm	Simon Wilson – John Wood and the Cosmological Vision of Albion – Community Arts & Education
31-Oct	5pm	*Bojan Koltaj – Žižek on Islam* – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice**	Lg16
03-Nov	5pm	*James Frost – Introduction to Hermeneutics* – RDP with INCISE : Theory of Knowledge Series**
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12-Nov	5pm	Lucy Wyatt – Psychedelics, Cities and a Question of Origins – Community Arts & Education
14-Nov	5pm	*Dr Fahid Qurashi – Muslim Radicalisation in Britain* – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice**	Lg16
21-Nov	5:30pm	INCISE TDoR – Transgender Day of Remembrance (video)	Lg16
26-Nov	6:15pm	Livia Sevier – Indian raga, restoring an ancient house – Community Arts & Education
28-Nov	5pm	*Dr Lynn Revell – Islamophobia* – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice (video)**	Lg16
05-Dec	5pm	Dr Wim Peumans (University of Witwatersrand)- Queer Muslims in Belgium: Religion, Migration and Sexuality – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice (video)	Lg16
08-Dec	5pm	Bojan Koltaj – Post Marxism (Zizek) – RDP with INCISE : Theory of Knowledge Series
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20-Jan	3pm	Julia Moore – Myth Discussion Group: Intuitive Reading (Workshop)	Nt07
23-Jan	5pm	*Dr Simon Hayhoe (Bath University) – Islamic and Christian Perspectives on Disability* – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice (video)**	Lg16
25-Jan	5pm	*Dr Leo Raznovich – Queering the Caymans: QP7, Law and Progress* – INCISE Public lecture (video)**	Og46
01-Feb	3pm	James Frost – Research seminar: ‘Re-sacralising the Tarot’ (Discussion)
01-Feb	5pm	*Dr Cathy Cantwell – Reflections on Tibetan Tantric Rituals Connected with Healing* (video)**	Og46
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16-Feb	5:30pm	*Professor Linden West – Introduction to Psychoanalysis* – RDP with INCISE : Theory of Knowledge Series**	tba
17-Feb	3pm	Geoffrey Cornelius – Myth Discussion Group: Discovering the I Ching (Workshop)	The Priory – Garden Room
20-Feb	5pm	*Rami Younes – Perspectives from Syria* – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice (video)**	Lg16
02-Mar	5:30pm	*Professor Bee Scherer – Queer Theory* – RDP with INCISE : Theory of Knowledge Series (video)**	Lg48
06-Mar	5pm	*Zulfi Ali – Perspectives from Pakistan* – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice (video)**	Lg16
16-Mar	10am-4pm	Beneath the Mask: Artists, Archives and A/Gender A day of events, exhibitions and spectacle prompted by Claude Cahun’s exploration of identities and masking. (Sidney Cooper Gallery, in cooperation with INCISE) (Photos and Videos)	Sidney Cooper Gallery
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29-Jun to 02-Jul		Critical Suicidology Conference – Call for Papers (photos and videos)
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