Events - Page 6

The GOBA Colloquium meets regularly to discuss classic and new writings related to the core objectives of the GOBA project.

The Mowinckel lecturer 2016 is Professor Ehud Ben Zvi, University of Alberta, Canada. 

This collaborative workshop between scholars at the University of Oslo, University of California, Berkeley, and Graduate Theological Union will focus on questions concerning ritual and the other-than-human world in the context of environmental change.

The GOBA project invites students and researchers to read and discuss recent publications relevant to the core objectives of the project. 

Samuel Etikpah will defend his doctoral dissertation: "The Kundum And Mother River Festivals: Exploring Ritual, Interreligious Collaboration And Community Development In Jomoro, Ghana"  for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Theology.

The title of the trial lecture is: Account for the internal organization of the Kundum festival as an ordered whole in terms of the different modes of ritual speaking it mobilizes (mythological narratives, singing, liturgical pronouncements, fundraising speeches, etc.).

On May 12th to 13th, the GOBA project hosts a seminar on the concepts of gender and Protestantism in the biography genre.

The GOBA project invites students and researchers to read and discuss recent publications relevant to the core objectives of the project. 

The GOBA project invites students and researchers to read and discuss recent publications relevant to the core objectives of the project. 

Reggie Nel is professor and Head of Missiology at Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology at University of South Africa (UNISA). Among his research interests and authorship are topics like Ecclesiology, Children and Youth Ministry, Anti-racism and Reconciliation, Social Networking and Missiology

GOBA Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Vebjørn Horsfjord presents a paper where he examines how interreligious alliance building may challenge the liberal and secular ideas of human rights discourse.

On March 10.-13., GOBA will host a Christian-Muslim consultation on how to faithfully transmit divine messages across different generations and in diverse contexts so that it becomes meaningful and relevant for the readers.

The GOBA project invites students and researchers to read and discuss recent publications relevant to the core objectives of the project. 

GOBA Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Helge Årsheim presents a draft book chapter on the origin, development and demise of Norwegian anti-blasphemy legislation. 

The GOBA project invites students and researchers to read and discuss recent publications relevant to the core objectives of the project. 

PhD candidate Ole Jakob Løland presents a work-in-progress, with response from GOBA Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Helge Årsheim

Open keynote lecture by Professor Lori Beaman (University of Ottawa)

The second workshop of the core research team behind GOBA will explore the concept of 'formatting' religion in modern society.

Open keynote lecture by Associate Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern University)

A workshop at UTS and CUNY in cooperation with the GOBA-project (Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway), and The Thuthuka Migration and Religion Program ( University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa)

Open invitation to a three day conference on democracy, memory, extremism and ritual post July 22.

​Guest researcher at The Faculty of Theology spring 2015, Professor Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico., talks about her REDO project: For the Wild: Precarious Bodies and Ritual Protest in Radical Environmentalism

The second workshop under GOBA project II: Formatting Religion Beyond the State will be held at the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Nordic/international workshop on Islamic university theology and lived religion under GOBA project I:Private Religion, Public Affairs  .