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Congratulations to Carmen Celestini on her new book (co-authored by Ahmed Al-Rawi, Nicole K. Stewart, Joseph M. Nicolaï, Nathan Worku) entitled "The Canadian Far-Right and Conspiracy Theories".

On November 8, 2024, the Department of Religious Studies held a scholarly discussion on "The 2024 US Presidential Election: A Nation Divided?” with Andrew Hunt, Veronica Kitchen, Carmen Celestini and Scott Kline.⁣⁣⁣
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Scholars discussed the 47th Presidential election and what it means for US-Canada relations, Canadian domestic politics, the role of religion in politics, information on social media, and the future of liberal democracy.⁣⁣⁣
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The event was well attended with over fifty in-person participants. ⁣

On Thursday, October 24, 2024, the Religious Studies department held a student event. 
An opportunity for students and professors connected to the program to get to know each other. More than twenty people came out for pizza and great conversation!

Congratulations to Tucker Finch, winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award in Religious Studies for 2023 - 2024. 

Congratulations to Peter Frick on his new book entitled Understanding Paul: The Existential Perspective

Dr. Carmen Celestini will be talking on the topic “What’s with Christian Nationalism?” on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, from 7:00-8:30 pm at Christ’s Church Cathedral, in Hamilton. The event is being livestreamed on YouTube at youtube.com/@cathedralhamilton. 

Thanks to a scholarship from the Canadian Friends of the École biblique, Alicia Batten is spending two weeks doing research on the Letter of James at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem.

Congratulations to Jess Gilbert, winner of the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award in Religious Studies for 2022- 2023.

Dr. David Seljak delivered the opening lecture at the "Land, Law, Religion, and Reconciliation" colloquium hosted by university of Victoria, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society.

We are very proud and pleased to announce that Dr. Doris Jakobsh received a lifetime achievement award from Sikh Studies, in honour of her contributions.