In this talk religious ethicist Liz Bucar uses the framework of appropriation to unpack the ethics of yoga. What does it mean to insist yoga is a spiritual but not religious practice? Are we entitled to borrow any practice in the pursuit of our personal health?

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Historian Judith Pollmann (Leiden University) will talk about faith persecution, polarization and tolerance in Antwerp between 1500 and 1700. (in Dutch)

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Western Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was deeply religious and characterized by a lively culture of humour. How did these two characteristics go together? In this talk (in Dutch) prof. Lieke Stelling (University Utrecht) examines the ways in which humour is, in fact, an indispensable part of religion.

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Ad Meskens will talk about painter Peter Paul Rubens, Franciscus Aguilonius sj and the contributions the jesuits made to the development of mathematics in the 17th century.

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