Buddhism, Gender and Sexuality – Professor Bee Scherer at the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies – University of Nottingham, Malaysia (15 December 2016)
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Reflections on Tibetan Tantric Rituals Connected with Healing – Dr Cathy Cantwell (INCISE Visiting Senior Research Fellow)
Islam & Gender in Yemen – Tanya Halldórsdóttir – Part of the Islam & Social Justice Lecture Series
Towards a Greater Dialogue on Disability Between Muslims and Christians -Simon Hayhoe (University of Bath) – Part of the Islam & Social Justice Lecture Series
Queer Muslims in Belgium: Religion, Migration & Sexuality – Wim Peumans (University of Witwatersrand) – Part of the Islam & Social Justice Lecture Series
Islamophobia -Lynn Revell (Part of the Islam and Social Justice Seminar Series)
INCISE Launch Event – Lecture by Professor Naomi Goldenberg – Queer Theory meets Critical Religion (14 October 2016)
Islam & Social Justice – Sheikha Halima Krausen (Hamburg)
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
INCISE Launch event – 14 October 2016
14 October starting at 17:45 the Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice will officially launch at Canterbury Christ Church University.
After a welcome by the vice-chancellor of the university there will be a keynote by Professor Naomi Goldenberg (University of Ottawa) – Queer Theory meets Critical Religion. The evening will be closed by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Tickets are available here.
Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice 