Events in English 2010
Date, time and venueFind the building from Map of the university | Title of topic | Organiser |
| Thursday 7 January at 14.15-16 Room 210, Bldg. 1441 | Guest lecture by Jan Bremmer:The Rise of Christianity through the eyes of Gibbon, Harnack and Rodney Stark | Section for the Study of Religion and Arab and Islamic Studies/ Anders Klostergaard Petersen |
| 27- 29 January 2010 | International conference: | Centre for Contemporary Religion/Faculty of Theology |
| Friday 5 March at 15.15-17.30 Auditorium 2, Bldg. 1441, Reception in room 110. | Official opening of the Centre for the Study of Antiquity and Christianity | Centre for the Study of Antiquity and Christianity |
| Tuesday 16 March at 16-18 Auditorium A1 (room 101), Bldg. 1333 (Political Science) | Fethullah Gülen and Dialog by Jill Carroll, Rice University, USA | Arab and Islamic Studies Unit and Centre for Contemporary Religion |
| Thursday 25 March at 13.15-15 Room 210, Bldg.. 1441 | The relevance of N.F.S. Grundtvig to church and society in China | The Grundtvig Study Centre |
| Tuesday 13 April at 16-18 Room 212, Bldg. 1442 | Guest lecture by Assistant Professor Pierre Liénard: "Status- and context-sensitivity in precaution systems" | Religion, Cognition and Culture |
| Thursday 22 April at 13-16 Auditorium 1, Bldg. 1441 | Recent trends in science and religion See poster | Department of Science Studies, the Grundtvig Study Centre, Aarhus Network for Science, Technology, Medicine and Climate Studies, Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Studies, Aarhus University |
| Friday 21 May at 9.15 - 12.00 Room 110, Bldg. 1441 | Seminar: 1) Dr. Christophe Heintz: Inference to convincing explanation 2) Dr. Konrad Talmont-Kaminski: Explaining the magic/religion distinction using a dual inheritance model | Religion, Cognition and Culture |
| 30 May - 4 June 2010 | International conference: Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity | Religion and Normativity - Theme 1: The Discursive Fight over Religious Texts in Antiquity |
| 31 May - 1 June Room 440, Bldg. 1443 | Two day conference: Islamic Theology in Samsun/Turkey meets Christian Theology in Aarhus/Denmark | Section for Biblical Studies by Eve-Marie Becker |
| Tuesday 1 June at 13-16 Auditorium 2, Bldg. 1441 | Buddhism and Modernity: Two guest lectures by Professor Donald S. Lopez Jr. and Professor Robert Sharf | BUMO - Buddhism & Modernity Research Group |
| Wednesay 2 June at 9.15-10.45 Auditorium 1, Bldg. 1441 | Guest lecture by Daniel Boyarin Invention of Orthodoxy as a Discursive Fight over Religious, Cultura and Ethnic Traditions | Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation |
| Wednesday 2 June at 11.00-12.30 Auditorium 1 & 2, Bldg. 1441 | Parallel paper sessions on the theme Orthodoxy and Heresy | Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation |
| Tuesday 22 June at 13.15 Auditorium 2, Bldg. 1441 | PhD defence by Henrik Reintoft Christensen: Religion and Authority in the Public Sphere. Representations of Religion in Scandinavian Parliaments and Media. | Faculty of Theology |
| Thursday 9 September at 15.00 Auditorium 2, Bldg. 1441 | Guest lecture: How the German Protestant Churches learned to accept the basic principles of liberal democracy: Human Rights by professor, Dr. Friedrich W. Graf, München | Faculty of Theology |
| Tuesday 21 September at 19.30 Auditorium 2, Bldg. 1441 | Contemporary apostasy: How and why people reject religion by Phil Zuckerman | Society for the Study of Religion |
| 22 - 23 September Room 1.1, The Conference Centre, Bldg. 1421 | Paul and Mark - Mark and Paul A two days international workshop in the field of New Testament Studies | Section for Biblical Studies |
| Tuesday 5 October at 19.30 Room 010, Bldg. 1441 | The feeding crisis: Childhood and religion from an evolutionary perspective by Gabriel Levy | Society for the Study of Religion |
| Friday 29 October at 13.15-16.15 Auditorium 3, Bldg. 1441 | PhD defence by Gitte Lønstrup: Concordia Apostolorum – Concordia Augustorum: The making of shared memory in and between two Romes in the fourth and fifth century | Faculty of Theology |
| 29 November - 3 December | Compact Seminar Cosmology and Eschatology in the Formation of Judaism and Christianity | The Religious Roots of Europe |
| Tuesday 30 November at 13.15-16.15 Auditorium 3, Bldg. 1441 | PhD defence by René Falkenberg: Eugnostos the Blessed. An exegetical analysis and interpretation of the Coptic version of Nag Hammadi Codex III,3 | Faculty of Theology |
| Wednesday 1 December at 9.30-16.30 Room 2.2, The Conference Centre, Bldg. 1421 | Workshop with Linda Woodhead: Sacralization and secularization. The bearing of religious and spiritual authority in late modernity | Centre for Contemporary Religion |
| Thursday 2 December at 10.00-16.30 Auditorium 2, Bldg. 1441 | "Religion and Secularisation in Modern Society". Seminar with Hugh McLeod and Linda Woodhead | Network for the Historical Study of Religion |
| Friday 3 December at 13.00-15.30 Room 110, Bldg. 1441 | RCC Winter workshop with Luther H. Martin and Ryan McKay | Religion, Cognition and Culture |
| Tuesday 14 December at 13:15-16:15 Auditorium 3, Bldg. 1441 | PhD defence by Jes Harfeld: The Question of the Farm Animal. Welfare, Ethics and Public Policy in Modern Animal Agriculture | Faculty of Theology |