Meetings & Workshops

2017

Cultural Evolution of Religion, 23–24 May 2017, Venue: Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Faculty hall and room 532. See preliminary program here.

2016

Workshop on Mortuary Ritual in Helsinki, October 27-28, 2016, the workshop is co-organized with the Centre of Excellence, Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions (CSTT).

Lecture, Richard E. DeMaris, “Profiling Baptism: Water Ritual In and Outside Earliest Christianity”, April 27, 2016, Helsinki.

Ritual and the Emergence of Early Christian Religion (REECR), Project meeting & The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual, Editorial Meeting. April 25-27, 2016, Helsinki.

2015

Ritual and the Emergence of Early Christian Religion (REECR), Project meeting & The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual, Editorial Meeting. 22–24 June, 2015, Clare Hall, Cambridge.

“Trends and Challenges in the Cognitive Science of Religion”, 3–4 March, Helsinki. Keynote speakers: Armin W. Geertz and István Czachesz. See the program and further information here.

2014

Workshop in Vancouver, 26–27 November, 2014, with Edward Slingerland’s project on “The Evolution of Religion and Morality” and with other scholars of religion from the University of British Columbia. See the program here.

Meeting in Heidelberg 15–16 May, 2014: project meeting and presentation in Neue Testament Sozietät, Faculty of Theology.

Meeting 15 April, 2014, in Helsinki (with some faculty members).

The project presentation on 8 January, 2014, in the context of the concluding meeting of the Nordic network on “Socio-Cognitive Perspectives on Early Judaism and Early Christianity,” in Helsinki, 8–10 January, 2014.

2013

The first project meeting 2–4 September, 2013, in Helsinki.

Meeting 25 November, 2013, in the context of the SBL Annual Meeting, Baltimore, ML.