Events in Religion at Otago
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Recordings of select past seminars and lectures are available on the Religion Programme, University of Otago YouTube channel.
Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Tuesday 14 March, 5:45pm |
Inaugural Professorial LectureProfessor Ben Schonthal
Castle 1 Lecture Theatre (75 Albany Street, North Dunedin, Dunedin Otago). |
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Albert Moore Lectures 2023
Wednesday 15 March, 5:15pm |
Albert Moore Lectures 2023 - Lecture 1 - Contemporary Buddhist Tales of the ParanormalDr Dee Osto
Moot Court Lecture Theatre, located on the tenth floor of the Richardson Building. |
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Thursday 16 March, 5:15pm |
Albert Moore Lectures 2023 - Lecture 2 - Nonbinary BuddhismDr Dee Osto
Archway 2. |
Friday 17 March, 1:00pm |
Albert Moore Lectures 2023 - Seminar - Psychedelic Buddhism, Inner Space, Outer Space and the Limits of Human KnowledgeDr Dee Osto
Moot Court Lecture Theatre, located on the tenth floor of the Richardson Building. |
Religion Seminar Series 2023
Friday 14 April, 1:00pm |
Religion, Maternal Support, and Child Health and Development across Five CulturesAssociate Professor John Shaver
Richardson 7N10 Seminar Room |
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Friday 5 May, 1:00pm |
Psychedelics as Personalised Medicine: Strategies, Experiences, and Outcomes of Lay Psychedelic Use for Health and Well-Being in New ZealandChris Arnison
Finally, I will offer some brief suggestions as to the direction that future research might take, based on the findings of this exploratory project, in order to better understand the roles that cultural variables play in the treatment of psychiatric illness using psychedelic substances.
Richardson 7N10 Seminar Room |
Friday 19 May, 1:00pm |
Respect My Authoritah! An analysis of authority in Billy Te Kahika's conspiracist epistemeCameron Vercoe-Groenen
Richardson 7N10 Seminar Room. |
Friday 18 August, 1:00pm |
Systematic Scrutiny of the Costly Signaling Theory of Religion: New experiments and cross-cultural dataRadim Chvaja
Richardson 7N10 Seminar Room / Zoom Meeting ID: 983 9678 7287 Password: 697238. |
Reading a Metaperson on Metapersons
Reading group on Marshall Sahlins, The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity (2022)
Friday 8 September, 2:00pm |
Introduction and Human Finitude
The tearoom on Level 5. |
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Friday 22 September, 2:00pm |
Immanence, Metapersons
The tearoom on Level 5. |
Friday 13 October, 2:00pm |
The Cosmic Polity and Afterword
The tearoom on Level 5. |