Past Events
February 2013
Religious Reactions to Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement |
Prof. Marie Griffith
Making Our Voices Heard: Women’s Rights Today |
Sandra Fluke
January 2013
December 2012
Rescheduled: Religion and Politics Fall 2012 Keynote Lecture |
With George F. Will
November 2012
Transmutations of Desire: Mudan ting (Peony Pavilion) as a Buddhist Psychological Study |
Prof. Qiancheng Li
"To Piety More Prone:" Gender and Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean |
Dr. Eric Dursteler
Why the Church Did Not Reject Gnosticism |
David Brakke, Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity and Professor of History at The Ohio State University
Jewish Youth in Ghettos and Forests: Oral Histories of the Nazi Genocide in Belorussia |
Dr. Anika Walke
October 2012
Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Reflections on Sephardic Jewries and the Holocaust |
Prof. Aron Rodrigue
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
Muslim Conversions to Christianity in the Early Modern Mediterranean |
Dr. Nabil Matar
Redeeming the Soul of America? |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Promise of the Engaged Scholar
September 2012
Mellon Seminar: Books, Bodies, and Buddhist Tales |
Embodied Readings in Medieval Japan
August 2012
Open House |
Come and learn about the program in Religious Studies!
May 2012
April 2012
The Enlightenment Pope, Benedict XIV (1675–1758) |
International Conference
The History of Science in the Post-Classical Period (Astronomy, Optics, Life Sciences, and Mathematics) |
Rationalist Sciences II
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