2014-2015

"The Tempting of Europe: a Schmittian Reading of Christianity and Islam in European Constitutionalism" - Prof. Susanna Mancini (March 13, 2015)

March 13, 2015 “The Tempting of Europe: a Schmittian Reading of Christianity and Islam in European Constitutionalism" Prof. Susanna Mancini (Università di Bologna) 12:00pm to 1:30pm Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318, 170 St. George Street This talk examines legal and political responses to the growing presence of Islam in the European […]

"Religion, Vaccines, and Violence: Anxiety about the End of 'The World'" - Prof. Paul Bramadat (January 22, 2015)

January 22, 2015 “Religion, Vaccines, and Violence: Anxiety about the End of 'The World'" Prof. Paul Bramadat (University of Victoria) 12:30pm to 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.bit.ly/osresearch, Event Code: LRST9 What happens when our institutions, practices, laws, and norms are challenged by individuals and groups attached to potentially irreconcilable accounts of the world?  Two […]

“Bad Jews and Soft Crimes: Dispatches from the Construction of Masculinity" - Prof. Sarah Imhoff (October 15, 2014)

October 15, 2014 “Bad Jews and Soft Crimes: Dispatches from the Construction of Masculinity" Prof. Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University) 12:30pm to 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.bit.ly/osresearch, Event Code: LRST8 How do cultural assumptions about religion and gender interact with criminality? In their historical attempts to understand crime, biological and racial theories have […]