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Seminarier

Här följer en presentation av de olika seminarieserier som ges vid institutionen, samt aktuella seminarieprogram. Alla intresserade är välkomna!

Högre seminariet

Teknik- och vetenskapshistoriska seminariet

Bibelvetenskapliga seminariet

Doktorand- och forskarseminariet

Barn, barndom och kulturella praktiker (BABAKUL)

LTS-seminariet (Lärande, text och språk)

Freezing cold – Seminar series on zoom

Tidigmoderna seminariet: HÄXÅRET

Didaktikseminariet

Forskarseminariet i systematisk teologi

DH-seminariet

Seminariet för studiet av västerländsk esoterism

Politik, kunskap, historia – En seminarieserie

Religionsvetenskapliga seminariet

Glokalitet och religion

Kontaktperson: Göran Larsson goran.larsson@lir.gu.se

Seminarium 1: Teorier om glokalitet
Datum och tid: 20 mars 14.15-16.00
Plats: Sal C629 (lilla personalrummet)

I detta seminarium introduceras och diskuteras centrala teoretiska perspektiv på glokalitet. Fokus ligger på hur globalisering och lokal anpassning samverkar, med utgångspunkt i följande texter.

Robertson, Roland. 1995. “Glocalization: Time–Space and Homogeneity–Heterogeneity.” In Global Modernity, edited by Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash, and Roland Robertson, 25–44. London: Sage.

Robertson, Roland. 2012. "Globalisation or Glocalisation?" The Journal of International Communication 18(2): 191–208.

Bauman, Zygmunt. 1998. "On Glocalization: or Globalization for Some, Localization for Some Others." Thesis Eleven 54(1).

Roudometof, Victor. 2016. "Theorizing Glocalization: Three Interpretations." European Journal of Social Theory 19(3): 391–408.

Seminarium 2: Glokala religioner
Datum och tid: 16 april 14.15-16.00
Plats: Sal C629 (lilla personalrummet)

Detta seminarium fokuserar på hur religiösa praktiker och traditioner formas i spänningsfältet mellan globala och lokala influenser. Diskussionen utgår från ett specialnummer om glokalitet i tidskriften Religions.

Special Issue on Glocal Religions

Texter:

Roudometof, Victor. 2018. "Glocal Religions: An Introduction." Religions 9(10): 294.

Manian, Sabita, and Brad Bullock. 2016. "Sensing Hinduism: Lucian-Indian Funeral ‘Feast’ as Glocalized Ritual." Religions7(1): 8.

Dessì, Ugo. 2017. "Japanese Buddhism, Relativization, and Glocalization." Religions 8(1): 12.

Seminarium 3: Vidgade perspektiv på glokalitet och religion
Datum och tid: 15 maj 14.15-16.00
Plats: Sal C629 (lilla personalrummet)

I det avslutande seminariet diskuterar vi de teoretiska perspektiv som behandlats i de föregående seminarierna och relaterar dem till vår egen forskning. Syftet är att undersöka i vilken utsträckning teorier om glokalitet har fortsatt relevans inom religionsvetenskap. Följande texter fungerar som ytterligare inspel i vår diskussion.

Tweed, Thomas A. 2006. Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Utdrag).

Scharbrodt, Oliver. 2024. "Neither of the East nor of the West: Crossing and Dwelling in Islamic Studies." Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 100(3).

One by Walking

One by Walking Organises digital events, if interested please email: camilla.brudin.borg@lir.gu.se

26^th February Anna Ptak: On the surface - walking the warped temporalities of extractivist landscape

This talk begins as a methodological intervention into ethnographic research on extractivist landscapes. It learns from perspectives on knowledge production, especially the ethical postulate so as the research avoids following the resource extraction modes in relation to information obtained during a fieldwork. The case study I refer to is a tiny village of Opolno-Zdrój which for 70 years sits on the edge of Turów opencast lignite mine, and also on the Polish-Czech-German border. The village’s temporalities sit in a precarious gap between existence and non-existence - its territory belongs to the mine, yet the mine’s future is questioned. Practices of walking I could observe and become part of make us think across the politi <<cal and discursive divide created by the opposing stance: the mine continuing until 2044 or not anymore. I will try to show how the environmental entanglements of village’s „non-existence” are vital contributors to the stories not told.

26^th March, Myriel Milicevic and Maud Canisius: Walking with Rivers, Butterflies and Future Tides

In our practices, we develop processes and tools, inviting others to join us in multi-perspective field studies as we explore our everyday environments. We seek ways to relate to other people, beings, and realities, exploring landscapes in diverse configurations. This process often involves experimental exercises, such as walking with residents along their local river memories, fishing nitrogen from urban water bodies, drawing a river, walking along the lines of future sea levels, or guiding butterflies to new meadows. These activities frequently take place in urban spaces—areas we have grown accustomed to perceiving as “empty” or “nothing”—which, in truth, are rich with possibilities, lifeworlds, and hidden habitats. In this sense, these exercises are playful, imaginative, and often hopelessly impossible. Yet, by embracing these uncertainties and unknowns, we create openings for new configurations and unexpected possibilities.

30^th April, Julie Gemuend: Becoming World: Walking as Research-Creation

Research-creation is an experimental site where art practice, theoretical concepts, and research coalesce to form new dimensions of knowledge. Movement is at the heart of research-creation and like a heart, the artist-scholar must expand and contract across disciplines, performing an uncanny dance that traverses notions of within and without, intuition and intellect, theory and practice. My presentation explores research-creation as a more-than-human methodology informed by new materialisms and posthumanisms, which I will bring to bear on walking research.

21 May 2025 16:00 - 17:00, Nataša Rogelja Caf will present: FootNotes: Collecting essays on walking

FootNotes invites you on a wandering – and wondering – tour with a collection of essays intended as walking-writing meditations. You will be taken down a number of different meandering routes, some well-trodden others still untouched. FootNotes wishes to be patient with a wide range of experimental efforts, inviting forms of writing (in the broadest sense) that experiment and dare lose themselves, having the courage to walk on shaky ground. The conjoint idea of slow wandering and dreaming also hopes to topple the walls of authoritative writing all too often supporting colonial and other hierarchical power relations. Essays - in textual, photographic, video, or hybrid mode - seem to be particularly suited for this endeavour as they resemble never-ending long conversations. Such writing acts as a method that thrives on uncertainty, admits to unknowability, and welcomes the unexpected.

4^th June, Andrew Thompson: Tales from the Towpath: Walking Towards and Through Alternative Narratives of 19th Century Industrial Improvement
This presentation examines the challenges and opportunities of developing an experiential approach to 19th century rural and urban ‘improvement’. It presents a case study of the Tavistock canal, which is valorised by industrial archaeologists and heritage professionals as part of the West Devon and Cornwall Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. To (re)create people’s intellectual, emotional and sensory experiences of the canal, I use an interdisciplinary methodology combining archaeological and historical sources and approaches to the landscape. Central to this is the repeated experience of walking the canal as stimulus to the senses, questions, ideas and the imagination. I also draw on my own biography and memories of a landscape I have encountered at various times over more than fifty years. By integrating these approaches, I create a multivocal account of the canal which recognises people’s differences and gives a voice to those who are rarely represented in the written records.