http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/ The Latest News and Events For St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto en-us 30 http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/news/stories/10_stories/10_0603_colleen_shantz.html http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/news/stories/10_stories/10_0603_colleen_shantz.html Dr. Colleen Shantz has received the F. W. Beare Award, for 2009-2010, from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies for her book Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostle�s Life and Thought (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009). This award recognizes an outstanding book in the areas of Christian Origins, Post-Biblical Judaism and/or Graeco-Roman Religions written by a member of the CSBS. On behalf of all her colleagues at the Faculty of Theology, and, indeed, the wider community of the University of St. Michael�s College, I offer Dr. Shantz our warmest congratulations. http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/news/stories/10_stories/10_0603_irish_scots.html http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/news/stories/10_stories/10_0603_irish_scots.html The expansion of the British and American empires during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history. Irish and Scots migrants were major participants in this process and, as they spread throughout the world, they interacted extensively with indigenous cultures and peoples. http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/news/stories/10_stories/10_0603_religions_india.html http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/news/stories/10_stories/10_0603_religions_india.html The Conference on the Study of the Religions of India (CSRI) will hold its annual meeting on the campus of the University of St. Michael's College. This conference, co-sponsored by the Principal of St. Michael's College, the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Religion, and the John M. Kelly Library, will bring together scholars from diverse scholarly disciplines to present research on the theme "Arguments, Oppositions and Arguments" in Indian religions, past and present.