March 5, 2019 “Rabbinic Law as Culture: How the Rabbis Transformed Jewish Law into a Way of Talking about Everything" Prof Chaim Saiman (Villanova University) 12:30pm to 2:00pm, Room 2010 Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp Though typically translated as “Jewish law,” the term "halakhah" is not an easy match for what is usually thought of […]
October 23, 2018 "Historicizing the Global politics of Religious Freedom" Professor Matthias Koenig (University of Göttingen) 12:00pm to 2:00pm, Room 318 Jackman Humanities Building Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp Religion has become an increasingly salient marker of symbolic and social boundaries in nation-states across the world. In both immigration […]
November 21, 2018 “Reforming Islamic Family Law in Lebanon: A Political Anthropology of Religion" Dr Jean-Michel Landry (McGill University) 12:30pm to 2:00pm, Room 2027 Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp What does legal activism tell us about the way Islamic family law is constructed and applied in the Middle East? Over the last decades, […]