Date
Tuesday October 18, 2022Location
Dupuis 215Join us for a Ms. Marvel watch party and discussion with Dr. Sailaja Krishnamurti, Dr. Adnan Husain, and Dr. Shobhana Xavier on Islam, comics, and superheroes!
Date
Thursday October 6, 2022Location
Miller Hall 105Join us, Thursday, Oct 6th for "Eat Your Own Leg: Multispecies Justice in the Time of Planetary Crisis”. Happening in Miller Hall 105 at 2:30pm.
In this talk, Jain will critically analyze the cultural and social dynamics of the production and consumption of animals in our current food system with these goals in mind: on the one hand, uncovering the broadly deprived status of non-human animals and in turn, ideas of human supremacy, which therefore at the least fail to challenge and at the most are actively complicit in the capitalist relations embodied in the food system and its damaging effects on the environment and contributions to pandemic; and, on the other hand, understanding activist communities that concern themselves with multispecies and environmental justice, enacting radical forms of relationship between species in the ways they eat and farm, challenging the social and economic relations of capitalism embodied in industrialized animal agriculture and its environmental, social, and health consequences.
This lecture is presented in partnership with the Flora Baker Fund.
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About the speaker:
Andrea R. Jain, Ph.D. is professor of religious studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis, editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and author of Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture (Oxford 2014) and Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality (Oxford, 2020). She received her doctorate degree in religious studies from Rice University in 2010. Her areas of research include religion and capitalism; environmental justice; global spirituality and modern yoga; sexuality and religion; and theories of religion.
Jain’s current work, including the documentary film Predation, centers questions about our current planetary crisis with special attention to the relationships between human societies and non-human animals, a diagnosis of capitalism’s multispecies injustices, and the activists who build multiscpecies coalitions in order to imagine radically different futures.
Fall/Winter 2022-2023
RELS 131: World Religions/Religious Worlds
Fall 2022
RELS 163: Religion and Popular Culture
RELS 207: Religion, Hate, and Xenophobia
RELS 214: The New Testament
RELS 242: Objects and Materiality in Indigenous Worlds
RELS 250: Mythology of Heros
The School of Religion at Queen’s University invites applications from suitably qualified candidates interested in teaching an undergraduate course in Religious Studies: Virtual Realities (RELS 201). This is an on-campus, upper level lecture course with an expected enrolment of ~50 students. The class is scheduled for Mondays 8:30- 10:00 and Thursdays 10:00-11:30.
Dr. Richard Ascough has received a Principal's Impact Course Award for his proposed undergraduate Religion course Living with the Dead: Religion, Culture and Death.
The School of Religion in conjunction with Jewish Studies at Queen’s University invites applications from suitably qualified candidates interested in teaching an undergraduate course in Judaism (RELS 234). This is an on-campus, upper level lecture course with an expected enrolment of ~50 students.
Candidates should have a Ph.D, and teaching experience at the University level in Religious Studies. This is a Fall term appointment for the period September 1 to December 31, 2022 with classes in session from September 6, 2022 to December 5, 2022.
Congratulation to Dr. Amarasingam on his appointment to the advisory group for online safety!
On Wednesday, March 30, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pablo Rodriguez, and the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, David Lametti, announced a new expert advisory group on online safety as the next step in developing legislation to address harmful online content.
Join us today, Friday, April 1st for "Studying Religion, Racism, and Science: Historical Foundations and Modern Phenomena”. Our keynote speakers, Ann Gleig and Sailaja Krishnamurti will be in Watson Hall 217 speaking from 9-10am and 10:15-11:15am respectively. Everyone is encouraged to attend the round table discussion from 1-3pm afterward in Ellis 333.
RELS 232 Religion and Social Movements
School of Religion
Queen’s University, Kingston, ON CAN K7L 3N6
