Workshop Schedule
Wednesday 23
May 2012 Sobey's School of Business, 4th floor, SMU
6:00 pm Registration
7:00 pm Welcome
7:30 pm Keynote Address: Dr. Alexander Soucy, Religion and Transnational Connections: Reflections on How to Approach the Study of Religions and Ethnicity in Canada
9:00 pm Reception
Thursday 24
May 2012 Loyola 173, SMU
9:30
Dr. Paul Bowlby:
Overview of the scholarly study of religion in the Atlantic
region. Dr. Rubina Ramji: Networking with scholars of religion in
Canada and elsewhere.
10:15 Break
10:30 Paper Session: Cathy Holtmann, Religion and Family Violence: The Role of Ethnicity; Micheline Hughes, Scapegoat, Sacrifice, or Saviour: An Examination of the Outsider in the Mahābhārata; Alyssa MacDougall, A Database of Media Attention Given to the Head Covering Ban in France; and Marwa Othman, Religion and Secularism Between the East and the West.
12:30 Lunch
1:30
Paper
Session: Pamela Andrews, The
Five Percenters: The Nation of Gods and Earths; Caitlin
Downie, Renegotiating Islam: The
Challenges and Coping Strategies of Immigrant Women; Bonnie
Morgan, "I was a lost person, you
know":Women, Conversion, and the Interaction of Christian
Traditions in 20th Century Conception Bay, Newfoundland;
and Caitlin Russell, A New
Context: Hindu Widows in the Canadian Diaspora.
3:00 Break
3:30 Paper Session: Trevor Murphy, Religious Influences on the Acadian Renaissance in the Maritimes, 1864-1945; Jennifer Williams, The Impact of the Education System on the Immigration of Non-Christian Minorities to Newfoundland and Labrador; Callum Beck, Living Together by Keeping Apart: Gentlemen's Agreements and Protestant-Catholic Relations on P.E.I.; and Rachel Courey, Transforming Conflict Resolution Through Religion.
5:00 Discussion about building a network of Atlantic scholars of religion; needs; organization of future workshops; possible topics; and publications.
6:30
Dinner: Elephant's
Eye Restaurant
To read the abstracts for
student presentations, click here.