Brynn Harlock, 4th year Religious Studies student, presented the poster resulting from her Undergraduate Student Summer Research Fellowship. The poster, entitled "Beyond Heterosexuality: Examining the Opinions of Catholic Youth towards Sexual and Gender Minorities", was the product of her summer work with Prof. Pamela Dickey Young.
The poster is on display in Stauffer Library until October 30.
QSR Prof James Miller will give three lectures in California this month about his research on religion, culture and nature in contemporary China.
Fred Reed, an international award-winning journalist and a respected specialist on religion and politics in the Middle East, recently spoke with students enrolled in RELS 326 Religion and Politics in Muslim Societies.
Reed offered a firsthand account of his experiences in Iran after the Islamic Revolution and addressed a wide range of questions posed to him by students concerning religion and politics in Muslim societies.
QSR Prof Mehmet Karabela will give a lecture at McGill University this month on Hegel and Ataturk, using his research on religious and political transformation in the modern Middle East. His lecture will take place in the Interuniversity Consoritum for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies on November 13. More Information.
Students in RELS 227 Religions of Native People discussed the plight of aboriginal women and girls when Kingston and Islands MPP Sophie Kiwala visited their class on November 12th.
Kiwala spoke about the need for a national public inquiry into missing and murdered Canadian aboriginal women and girls.
Instructor Jason Kelly reported that the students were very engaged and motivated by the talk.
Tracy Trothen and her coeditor, Calvin Mercer (East Carolina University), are very pleased to announce the publication of their anthology Religion and Transhumanism - The Unknown Future of Human Enhancement(Westport, CT: Praeger).
Prof Richard Ascough's work on redescribing early Christ groups within the matrix of Greco-Roman culture is highlighted in the recent edition of (e)Affect (Fall 2014), published by the Office of the Vice-Principal (Research) at Queen's.
The article can be read online.
Dr Jason James Kelly will be interviewed as part of the CFRC radio series, Our Stolen Sister: listening to the voices from our community, on January 22, 2015 at 5:00pm.
Dr. Kelly will be discussing issues surrounding missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in Canada.
For more information on the series, see their website.
Pamela Dickey Young, Heather Shipley and Tracy Trothen have edited and contributed to a new book entitled Religion and Sexuality (UBC Press).
Pamela Dickey Young, Heather Shipley and Tracy Trothen have edited and contributed to a new book entitled Religion and Sexuality (UBC Press, 2015).
