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DESCRIPTION:On 3 June our usual Theology and Religion research seminar will be rolled into a bigger Research Showcakes (sic!) event. You are warmly encouraged to attend to support those of our PGR students who will be presenting on their work and bringing along baked items that reflect an aspect of their research!   We will begin earlier than usual, at 10.45 for 11am, and will go on until 4.30pm. You are welcome to attend for part of the day if you can't be there for all of it. We will meet in the Digital Humanities seminar room, at the rear of Queen's building (marked as 90 on the campus map at /v8media/aboutus/visitus/streatham-campus-map.pdf).    The outline for the day is as follows:   10.45 - Welcome 11am - Panel 1 Andy Macqueen - "Jacob's pillow: What place for lithic agency in theology?" Nathaniel Osei-Asante - "Jews and Ancient Greek athletic" 12 - Panel 2 Alexis Bradford - "People-Eating-People: The Gendered Connotations of Anthropophagy in Biblical Texts" Emily Gibbons - "'That's What It Says in the Bible': How Andrew Tate Appropriates the Bible to Legitimise the Misogyny of the Manosphere" 1pm - Cake break 1 1.30 - Panel 3 James Bell - "Pauline shepherd-leadership: Acts 20:28–31 and Eph 4:11–16" Vincent Chow - "Yahweh's Rise as Israel's Political Patron in Its Political and Historical Contexts: A Study of Yahweh and the Omrides" 2.30 - Cake break 2 3pm - Dr Olabisi Obamakin - "Applying for postdoctoral positions and transitioning into academic life post-PhD" Dr Olabisi Obamakin was awarded her PhD in Theology from Exeter in 2024. Her thesis was entitled “Constructing a Feminist Afropean Hermeneutical Biblical Framework” and was supervised by Prof Louise Lawrence and Prof David Horrell. For the last two years she has been Postdoctoral Research Associate in Theological Education (Common Awards Team) in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. She has been selected to serve as a Yang Visiting Scholar of World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School for the 2026-2027 academic year. This final session will end with a launch of Dr Obamakin's book, Afropean Biblical Studies: Constructing a Nigerian/British Women's Hermeneutic, published with De Gruyter-Brill in May. 4.30pm – end If you would like the MS Teams link, please email CAHRT@exeter.ac.uk Organiser: Jonathan Norton745051
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LOCATION:Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1, Streatham Campus
SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Theology and Religion Research Seminar: Research Showcakes
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