Past Events

Mysteries of the Womb | The Body Natural and the Body Islamic, or, The Power of a Legal Fiction

The History of the Body | The 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference

Redeeming the Soul of America? | Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Promise of the Engaged Scholar

Mellon Seminar: Books, Bodies, and Buddhist Tales | Embodied Readings in Medieval Japan

Open House | Come and learn about the program in Religious Studies!

Senior Symposium

The Enlightenment Pope, Benedict XIV (1675–1758) | International Conference

Children at Play in China: The Trifling, the Wicked, and the Sacred | Pauline Lee, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Religious Studies

The Long Approach to the Mormon Moment: The Building of an American Church | Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

St. Helia Talks Back: Christianity and the Feminization of Rhetorical Voice | Virginia Burrus, Professor of Early Church History and Chair of the Graduate Division of Religion at Drew University

It’s Religion, Stupid, Not the Economy | Barry W. Lynn, Executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State

The Works of Mercy | Daniel Bornstein, Darrow Professor of Catholic Studies, Director of Religious Studies

Commentaries and Originality in Later Islamic Astronomy | George Saliba, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science, Columbia University

The Religious Influence in American War and Diplomacy: A History | Andrew Preston, Senior Lecturer in American History and a Fellow of Clare College at Cambridge University

Atheism | Leigh Schmidt, Edward Mallinckrodt University Professor, Professor of Humanities

Shakespeare: The Merciless and the Merciful | Robert Wiltenburg, Dean of University College

Stop Worrying and Start Sowing! The Ethics of a ‘Recession-Proof’ Gospel | Jonathan Walton, Assistant Professor of African American Religions at Harvard University

Healing the Heart of Democracy | Parker Palmer, Best-selling author, educator, and Center for Courage & Renewal founder and senior partner

Is There Room for Mercy in the Sexuality Debates? Shifting the Terms of our Religious-Political Stalemate | Marie Griffith, Director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics

Courts, Coercion, and Culture: The Meaning of Religion in Public Spaces | Tsvi Blanchard, Senior Fellow and Director of Organizational Development at CLAL

Muslim American Dissent and U.S. Politics Before and After 9/11 | Edward E. Curtis IV, IUPUI

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