Lightning Talks
The 2nd Annual Department of Religion and Culture's Undergraduate "Lightning Talks" Symposium was a great success! A big thank you to Heather Patrick, who organized the event, and to everyone who participated and attended. Here are a list of the speakers this year:
Heather Patrick (graduate student)
"Have we lost our collective sense of humour? - The problematic taxonomy of 'the sacred'"
Annie McBay
"The Christian Right and the Feminist Left in The Handmaid's Tale"
Ugonna Chigbo
"Turning Wine into Water"
Tapji Garba
"Theorizing the Secular, Theorizing the Human"
Manvinder Gill
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there: Sufism in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom"
Dave Syvitski
"A Christian space in Megiddo"
Adam Smith (graduate student)
"To Everything: On the Theological Turn in French Phenomenology"
Derrick Rikley
"Illuminating the Numinous"
Cédric Lanthier
"Taking Steps Toward Cultural Identity: Travel in Japan During the Edo Period"
Tapji Garba
"Black Messiahs: The (mater)ialist Messianism of Hortense Spillers and Denise Ferreira Da Silva"
Shanae Blaquiere
"Charismatic Christianity & the Rhetorics of Entertainment"