Semester 1, Academic Year 2011-2012
Listing retained for archive purposes.
| Date | Topic/Speaker |
| 29 September 2011 | “Aspects of Religious and Non-Religious Dialogue in a Christian Buddhist Dialogue: Christianity, China and the Dalai Lama” Professor Mario I. Aguilar (University of St. Andrews) |
| 6 October 2011 | "Material Culture, Religion and Politics in Ninth-Century China and Japan” Dr. Ian Astley (Senior Lecturer in Japanese, University of Edinburgh) |
| 13 October 2011 | "Press Laws, Media and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in China" Professor Natascha Gentz (Chair of Chinese and Director of the Confucius Institute for Scotland, University of Edinburgh) |
| 20 October 2011 | “The Environmental, Bioethical, and Demographic Challenges of China’s Growth” -A Conversation between Professor John Nagle (University of Notre Dame, USA) and Dr. Brian Brock (University of Aberdeen) |
| Friday 28 October 2011 |
Special Lecture: “The 14th Dalai Lama and the Current Situation of Tibet” by Thubten Samdup [the Dalai Lama’s Representative to the UK] in Lecture Room 1, St. Mary’s College. Thubten Samdup, representative of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to the UK, will give a lecture on matters related to the election of the new Kalon Tripa and the resignation of H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama as political leader of Tibet. This is part of the research on Tibet [in progress] carried out at the CSRP. |
| 3 November 2011 | "(In)visibility: A Form of, and Issue for, Public Theology" Dr. Eric Stoddart (University of St Andrews) |
| 17 November 2011 | “A Christian Theologian in China” The Rev. Professor David Jasper (Changjiang Professor at Renmin University, China and Professor of Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow) |
| 24 November 2011 | “Eschatology in Major Religious Traditions” Professor Christopher Johnson (Professor of Gerontology and Sociology, University of Louisiana, USA) |
| 1 December 2011 | "The XIV Dalai Lama and the Way of the Bodhisattva: Rethinking Shantideva's Work on Compassion in Action" (Dr. Alejandro Chávez, San Luis de Potosí, Mexico) |
