Submitted by Administrator on Mon, 20/10/2014 - 10:08
Staff and researchers from the Faculty of Divinity will be giving a number of talks as part of the Festival. These reflect the wide ranging research carried out in Cambridge in the field of religion. Please note the different venues and visit the festival programme for more information.
Tuesday 21 October 5-6pm Mill Lecture Rooms
Ruth Jackson: The fixed image and the created self: photographs and flip-books from a religious perspective.
Wednesday 22 October 5-6pm Mill Lane Lecture Rooms
Dr Douglas Hedley: 'A Cambridge Platonist preaching to the House of Commons: Images and Idols in Civil War England' (this is in place of: 'New Atheism' in seventeenth century England?)
Thursday 23 October 5.30-6.45pm Faculty of Divinity
Dr James Aitken: Jews in antiquity: framing identity in a Greek world
Saturday 25 October 11am-2pm Faculty of Divinity
Hands-on activities exploring religious identity
Saturday 25 October 12.30-1.30pm Faculty of Law
Beth Singler: Jedi and witches ad indigo children! Oh my!
Wednesday 29 October 6-7pm Divinity School, St John's College
Dr Nathan McDonald (chair), Jesse Zink, Rev'd Duncan Dormor, Rev'd Carolyn Hammond: Identity Politics and the Anglican Church