Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions
Below is the programme of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions (ISSR) during the 2025 Trinity Term. Following a long-standing tradition we give advanced DPhil students in the Study of Religion (and related areas) the opportunity to present their research. All talks will be at the Paul Oster Room, Lady Margaret Hall (LMH), Norham Gardens.
- Week 2, Tuesday, 6 May, 4.00–5.30pm, Paul Oster Room, LMH — Buddhism
- Kassandra Dugi, “Ignorance and Ethics in Stoic and Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy.”
- Jacob Mortimer, “Dharmakīrti’s Santānāntarasiddhi: Investigating a Buddhist Proof of Other Minds.”
- Week 4, Tuesday, 20 May, 4.00–5.30pm, Paul Oster Room, LMH — Hindusim
- Aamir Kaderbhai, “The Transformative Philosophy of the Mokṣopāya.”
- Natasha Chawla, “Message of the Forest: Tagore, Ecological Relationality, and the Poetics of Being”
- Week 6, Tuesday, 3 June, 4.00–5.30pm, Paul Oster Room, LMH — Islam
- Abaas Chaudhry, “The Political Art of Happiness: Ghazālī's Ethics and Politics.”
- Easa Saad, “’Seeing With Both Eyes': The Path of Opposites in Rūmī’s Masnavī.”
