{"id":7736,"date":"2017-08-17T14:07:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7736"},"modified":"2017-08-17T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:07:16","slug":"congratulations-to-yvonne-sherwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/08\/17\/congratulations-to-yvonne-sherwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Yvonne Sherwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a> is delighted to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/sherwood.html\">Professor Yvonne Sherwood<\/a>\u00a0is to receive an honorary doctorate from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uio.no\/english\/\">University of Oslo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tf.uio.no\/english\/\">Oslo Faculty of Theology<\/a> proposed her for the doctorate in recognition of her research in Religious Studies. As well as hosting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tf.uio.no\/english\/research\/news-and-events\/events\/guest-lectures-seminars\/2017\/honorary-doctors.html\">lecture<\/a> with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-goettingen.de\/en\/55878.html\">Professor\u00a0Thomas Kaufmann<\/a>, who will also\u00a0receive an honorary doctorate from the university, Yvonne\u00a0will\u00a0give an\u00a0address on behalf of the new honorary doctors at\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uio.no\/english\/about\/culture\/aula\/\">University\u00a0Aula<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne has\u00a0been involved\u00a0with Oslo University as an external examiner for PhD vivas, a\u00a0research collaborator and a seminar leader. Her most recent book is\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/gb\/academic\/subjects\/religion\/biblical-studies-old-testament-hebrew-bible\/biblical-blaspheming-trials-sacred-secular-age\">Biblical Blaspheming: Trials of the Sacred in a Secular Age<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2012).<\/p>\n<p>The degree\u00a0is to be\u00a0conferred by the Rector Ole Petter Ottersen at a ceremony on 1 September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Professor\u00a0Sherwood on this achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Religious Studies is delighted to announce that Professor Yvonne Sherwood\u00a0is to receive an honorary doctorate from the\u00a0University of Oslo. The Oslo Faculty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/08\/17\/congratulations-to-yvonne-sherwood\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":7783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7786,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions\/7786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}