Religion
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (2012-2013)
Jan 20, 2013
“Humanizing the Urban: The Poetics of Citizenship” Pier Giorgio Di Cicco was an Italian Canada author, editor, and priest. He attended the University of Toronto, graduating with the B.A. in 1973 and a B.Ed. in 1976. A trip to Italy in the 1970s inspired him to become a [...]
Gauvin A. Bailey (2009-2010)
Feb 20, 2010
“The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Converging Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru” Gauvin A. Bailey is Professor and Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen’s University, a position he has held since 2011. At the time of his talk, Bailey was a professor of Renaissance [...]
Lori Beaman (2009-2010)
Jan 30, 2010
Lori Beaman is professor and Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Beaman’s research had helped to develop the concept of deep equality and an emerging [...]
Bill Blaikie (2009-2010)
Jan 20, 2010
“The God Squad in Politics: From Affection to Derision to New Possibilities” Bill Blaikie was one of Canada’s longest serving members of parliament, representing a variety of Manitoba ridings from 1979-2008. Blaikie served as Deputy Leader and House Leader of the New [...]
Roberto Cipriani (2005-2006)
Jan 30, 2006
“Human Values – Religious and Secular” Roberto Cipriani is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Roma Tre University. He has taught at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Recife, and Laval. He is Past President of the Italian Sociological Association and the ISA [...]
Lois Wilson (1982-1983)
Mar 16, 1983
“Remembered Visions for a Human Future” Lois Wilson is a minister, author, diplomat, former senator, and advocate for human rights in the church, Canadian Parliament and the world. After graduating from United College in Winnipeg in 1950, Wilson was ordained as a minister [...]
Gregory Baum (1978-1979)
Jan 20, 1979
“The Development of Political Theology in Canada” Gregory Baum was a Canadian priest and theologian in the Roman Catholic Church. He emigrated to Canada from England as a war refugee with his Jewish mother and Protestant father. In the 1960s, he was known for his works on [...]
Klaus Klostmaier (1978-1979)
Jan 20, 1979
“Is the West Waiting for Light from the East?” Klaus Klostermaier was University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Manitoba, where he began working in 1970. He was born in Munich, Germany, but lived in India for [...]
Peter Slater (1978-1979)
Jan 20, 1979
“Religious Ambiguity or the Lady whose Son Prays in his Closet” Peter Slater was born in England and raised in Myanmar, Australia, and Canada. He received degrees in philosophy and theology from McGill, Cambridge, and Harvard. At the time of his talk, he was Dean Emeritus [...]
Jaroslav J. Pelikan (1966-1967)
Jan 23, 1967
“The Irony of Reformation” Jaroslav J. Pelikan was Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School, where he worked on the history of Christianity and Christian theology. He studied at Concordia Seminary and received his PhD from the University of [...]
E.H. Brookes (1965-1966)
Oct 11, 1965
“Problems of African Universities South of the Sahara” Lawrence C.B. Gower was the Law Commissioner for Great Britain and the former Dean of Law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He wrote The Principles of Modern Company Law (1954). Gower studied law at University [...]
John Coleman Bennett (1962-1963)
Jan 30, 1963
“Christianity and Politics” Dr. John Coleman Bennett was a theologian, minister in the United Church, and Christian ethicist. Bennett was Reinhold Neibuhr Professor of Social Ethics and the Dean of the Faculty at Union Theological Seminary, New York. His scholarship [...]