Past Events
October 2016
Religion and literature reading group meeting |
with Prof. Adam Potkay
September 2016
The Caliphate of Man: The Problem of Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought |
Andrew March, Political Science, Yale; Discussant- Matt Chick, Political Science
Ethnographic Theory Workshop: Legalizing Sin: Moral Reckoning around abortion among Catholic women in Mexico City after recent legalization |
Elyse Singer, Graduate Student, Washington University in St. Louis
WGSS Fall 2016 Colloquium Series - "Legalizing Sin: Moral Reckoning around Abortion Among Catholic Women in Mexico City After Recent Legalization" |
Elyse Singer, PhD Candidate, Anthropology & WGSS Graduate Certificate Commentator: Katherine D. Moran, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Saint Louis University
The Problem with Modernity |
Prof. Lynn Hunt
The Rise and Fall of “Theory” in the Humanities |
Prof. Lynn Hunt
Heart Strums featuring Hossein Alizadeh and Hossein Behroozinia |
Persian Classical Music Improvisation
August 2016
May 2016
April 2016
Religion in the Public Sphere: Case Studies in Hope and Stress |
Various speakers including Prof. John Bowen and Prof. Marie Griffith
Rethinking the Long Reformation: Purity, Purgation, and Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World |
Prof. Nicholas Terpstra
Visual Ontologies: Style, Archaism, and the Construction of the Sacred in the Western Tradition—From Antiquity to Modernity and Back |
Prof. Jas' Elsner
Religious Wars in the East: Why Should we Remain Optimistic |
Prof. Itai Sened
Ethnographic Theory: Religion and the Lability of Form |
Prof. Brian Larkin
March 2016
On Medieval Islamic Talismans |
Prof. Persis Berlekamp
The Black Muslim Encounter and Why it Matters |
Prof. Zain Abdullah
American Catholicism, American Politics Reconsidered |
Panel Discussion
New Approaches to Islam's Formation: An Arabic Papyrus from the Early Islamic Period |
Prof. Fred Donner
The 2016 Adam Cherrick Lecture: "Family Papers: A Sephardi Journey through the Twentieth Century" |
Prof. Sarah Abrevaya Stein
"Thread of a Community - The Zerrouf beyond Tlemcent, 1962 - 1973" |
IAS/SIR Speaker Series: Dr. Sara Jay
Postsecular Studies: Contexts and Premises |
Prof. Lori Branch