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Interdisciplinary Research Seminar In The Study of Religions (MT 2026)

Convened by Prof Frank Griffel

Below is the programme for the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions (ISSR) for Michaelmas Term. 

The seminars will take place in Week 2 at Room 30.026, Schwarzman Centre, and in Weeks 4, 6, and 8 (Tuesdays, 4:00–5:30 pm) at Lady Margaret Hall, in the Olga Pocock Room.

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Week 2 (MT 2026)

20 October
Prof Jea Sophia Oh (West Chester University of Pennsylvania): “Shakti and Salim: An Ecofeminist Thealogy of Life-Power through Kali and Baridegi”
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Week 4 (MT 2026)

03 November
Dr Ibrahim Safri (Walter Benjamin Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford): “Islamic Philosophy in North Africa during the Early Modern Period (15th–18th Centuries)”
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Week 6 (MT 2026)

17 November
Prof Justin Jones (Faculty of Theology and Religion, Oxford): “Women-led ‘Islamic Courts’ in India: Women’s Rights Between Shariʿah and State”
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Week 8 (MT 2026)

01 December
Dr Rose Stair (JRF, Faculty of Theology and Religion, Oxford): “Religion and Culture in Early Zionist Thought: The jungjüdisch Case”