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What is ISIS? Why Do Canadians Join?
he research literature on terrorist radicalization is now vast and complex, yet our understanding of the process is still fragmentary and underdeveloped. This brief presentation has two purposes: to introduce you to the range of ideas and findings relevant to the study of the process by which so-called homegrown terrorists are radicalized and become violent, and to provide you with a plausible model of how this happens.
Religious Freedom at Risk? Islam, Europe and the Right to Act on Faith
Speaker: Dr. Melanie Adrian, Dept. of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
Description: Religious freedom has been increasingly under attack in France in the last 10 years. In 2004, religious symbols were banned in public high schools, and in 2011, covering the face in public spaces was prohibited. These measures were largely a response to, and have disproportionately affected, Muslim communities – especially Muslim women. They may also be jeopardizing pluralism, democracy, and certain conceptions of freedom.
Talk by Mark Vessey on late antiquity
Come to a fascinating talk by Dr. Mark Vessey (UBC) on "Later Latin Literature, the Newest Late Antiquity, and the Period of the Western Classic: A Critical Juncture for Humanities Research?"
Talk: The Paradox of Pleasure by Carolyn Whitney-Brown
This event is part of St. Jerome's University's lectures in Catholic experience series.
The Edges of Theology: and SJU Religious Studies author celebration
Please join us in Fireplace Lounge, Sweeney Hall, for refreshments, a panel discussion and book signing to celebrate the publication of the following books:
Scott Kline: The Ethical Being: A Catholic Guide to Contemporary Issues
Myroslaw Tatryn and Maria Truchan-Tataryn: Discovering Trinity in Disability: A Theology for Embracing Difference.
Cynthia Crysdale: Creator God, Evolving World (with Neil Ormerod)
Animals as peers, as persons, as peacebuilders.
In this talk Bechtel considers some of the changes that have developed in human understanding of animal life over the last 20 years. In three circles of increasing particularity he probes the ways humans and animals relate and the lessons that humans can take from animal life. Drawing on insights from geography, theology, and ethology Bechtel develops an ethics of human animal relationship focused on the flourishing of species.