Past Events
November 2012
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
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
March 2012
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
February 2012
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
U.S. Evangelicals and the Congo Crisis of 1960-64: The Politics of Race, Revolution, and Persecution in Decolonizing Africa |
Melani McAlister, George Washington 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