University Affairs: Dr. Amarasingam is Media's Go-To Expert on Radicalization
Queen's University terrorism researcher Amarnath Amarasingam is no stranger to intersectoral strife.
UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS Article by MARK CARDWELL
JAN 22 2020
Announcing The New Assistant Professor In Indigenous Knowledges
The School of Religion, Queen’s University, is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Jorge Legoas as Assistant Professor in Indigenous Knowledges.
RELS Student Awarded the Elizabeth Wallace Bursary
The School of Religion, Queen's University is pleased to congratulate Faezeh Izadi for being selected as the recipient of this year’s Elizabeth Wallace Bursary awarded by the Ban Righ Foundation.
Archaeology and Theological Hall
Theological Hall, which now houses the School of Religion and the Department of Drama, once also housed the Queen’s Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology, which included a 10,000 year old human skull.
Tracy Trothen Presented at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Tracy Trothen gave a presentation today "at" the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics via Zoom, titled "Aging, Radical Life Extension, & Religion—Changing the Conversation." She enjoyed the discussion that followed her presentation very much and was excited to give this presentation. BUT she would have much preferred being there in person!
More information check out The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics Website
Congratulations to our Graduating Class of 2020.
Congratulations to our Graduating Class of 2020.
It is with the greatest pleasure that the School of Religion sends our best wishes to the graduating class of RELS students. We wish you all the best with future endeavours and adventures.
Statement on Anti-racism from Incoming Director of the School of Religion, Dr. Adnan A. Husain
Statement on Anti-racism from Incoming Director of the School of Religion, Dr. Adnan A. Husain
New Baker Postdoctoral Fellow
The School of Religion is pleased to announce that Dr. Ryan Anningson will be the Baker Postdoctoral Fellow from 2020-2022. Dr. Anningson received his PhD from Wilfrid Laurier University/University of Waterloo joint program in Religious Diversity in North America. His research focuses on the roles of race in the transmission of Buddhism to North America. His book Theories of the Self, Race, and Essentialization: The United States and the Asian “Other”: 1899-1957 is forthcoming from Routledge Press in their Critical Buddhism Series.
New book by Pamela Dickey Young and Heather Shipley
Identities Under Construction: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality among Youth in Canada by Pamela Dickey Young and Heather Shipley has just been published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Drawing from survey responses and interviews with nearly 500 young adults in Canada, the book explores the development, fluidity, and intertwining of religious, gender, and sexual identities.