Entries by Hanna Lehtinen

Conference Report: International Society for Media, Religion and Culture Conference, 2014

December 20, 2014 /0 Comments/in /by

For four days at the beginning of August, I attended the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC) conference within the beautiful grounds of Canterbury Cathedral in England. Hosted by Professor Gordon Lynch of the University of Kent, this conference brought together scholars of media, religion, and culture (sometimes even all three) to analyse these intersections in daily life, in spiritual practice,

Conference Report: Religious History Association Biennial Conference/Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2014

September 12, 2014 /1 Comment/in /by

The University of Queensland hosted last month (8-10 July) the biennial conference of the Religious History Association (RHA). The conference itself was one stream of a larger conference: the annual conference for the Australian Historical Association (AHA) (7-11 July). The theme of the AHA and therefore RHA conference was ‘Conflict in History’. This theme was broadly interpreted by the presenters.

Conference Report: North American Patristics Society (NAPS) May 2014

September 5, 2014 /1 Comment/in /by

Conference report by Nathaniel J. Morehouse, PhD, University of Manitoba
Between Thursday May 22 through Saturday May 24, the North American Patristics Society held its annual conference in Chicago. Attendance this year was an all-time high with nearly 400 members attending, and roughly 300 paper presentations over 75 sessions. It was also the first time that I had attended this conference.