THE BIBLE IN CRIME FICTION AND DRAMA - DAY CONFERENCE

Keynote speaker: Professor Liam McIlvanney, University of Otago and author of 'The Quaker', winner of the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2018.

About the event

The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth.

http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/research/research_centres/cross_school_research_clusters/food_researchers_in_edinburgh_fried/seminars_and_public_events/2018_2019/food_insecurity_in_scotland

[Lacan in Scotland / Edinburgh Film Seminar]

Crisis? What Crisis? Fantasies of Masculine Identity in Contemporary Cinema 

Dr Calum Neill (Edinburgh Napier University)

Dr David Sorfa (University of Edinburgh)

Date: Wednesday 5 December 2018

Time: 18:30 - 20:30

Venue: Screening Room (G.04), 50 George Square

27^th March 2019, 4.10-5.30pm, Althaus Reid Room, New College 

Daan Beekers (Utrecht University, visiting IASH Fellow) – ‘A converted church: religious heritage, memory and the matter of home in Amsterdam’

[Religious Studies]

13^th March 2019, 4.10-5.30pm, Althaus Reid Room, New College 

Chris Jones (University of Oxford) – ‘Buddhists on Non-Buddhists: Representing the Religious Other in Indian Buddhist Literature’

[Religious Studies]

6^th March 2019, 4.10-5.30pm, Althaus Reid Room, New College 

Áine Warren (University of Edinburgh) – ‘Reclaiming and Resistance: Transformation Narratives of the Neopagan Dark Goddess’

[Religious Studies]

13^th February 2019, 4.10-5.30pm, Althaus Reid Room, New College 

David Robertson (Open University) – ‘The Essentialisation of Gnosticism’

[Religious Studies]

6^th February 2019, 4.10-5.30pm, Althaus Reid Room, New College 

Philip Alexander (Glasgow University) - 'Music and immigrant identity among Glasgow Jews'

[Religious Studies]

23^rd January 2019, 4.10-5.30pm, Althaus Reid Room, New College 

Adam Possamai (Western Sydney University) – ‘Branding the devil in New Age, Catholicism and Pentecostalism:  a sociology of exorcism’

[Religious Studies]

16^th January 2019, 4.10-5.30pm, Althaus Reid Room, New College 

Erica Baffelli (Manchester University) – ‘Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese “New” Religion’

[Religious Studies]