Dear colleagues, former colleagues, students, and friends,
It is a great pleasure to invite you all to celebrate with us the 10th anniversary of LUCSoR – the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.
When Friday 1 November 2024, 9.30-18.00
Where Lipsius-building and Faculty Club
Theme Practicing Comparison in the Study of Religion
Participation is free, but please register for the event using this form.
The event is open to all; please feel free to share the invitation.
More information can be found at this website.
We hope to see many of you at the symposium.
On behalf of the LUCSoR staff,
Markus Davidsen
Preliminary programme
(definitive titles and abstracts will appear soon on the event website)
9.30 Arrival; coffee and tea
10.00 Welcome (Ab de Jong, academic director LIAS)
10.05 LUCSoR at 10 (Corey Williams, programme chair religious studies)
10.35 The Comparative Religion Network in Leiden (Markus Davidsen, chair comparative religion network)
11.05 Coffee
Session 1 | Chair: Markus Davidsen
11.25 Comparing excommunication (Ed Hayes, UL)
11.55 Comparing antisemitism and islamophobia (Gerard Wiegers, UvA, formerly UL)
12.25 Lunch (Faculty Club)
Session 2 | Corey Williams
13.20 Georg Hornius (1620-1670) and the comparative study of history, peoples and religions in Leiden (Eric Jorink, UL)
13.50 Up in the tree and down in the grave: An ideal-type model for analogical comparison of the dimensions of ambiguity of extra-social beings (Arjan Sterken, RU)
14.20 More than methodological naturalism (Nathal Dessing, UL)
14.50 Coffee
Session 3 | Chair: John-Harmen Valk
15.20 Unwanted and Impossible? The Cross-Cultural and Trans-Historical Comparison of Religious Change (Mattias Brand, Zürich, formerly UL)
15.50 Deep History of Religion (Ab de Jong, UL)
16.20 Final words and looking forward (Markus Davidsen and Corey Williams)
16.40 Drinks (Faculty Club)
