Bruce Lincoln
Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School; also in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Committee on Medieval Studies; Associate Faculty in the Departments of Anthropology and Classics
Ph.D. (University of Chicago)
Lectures and Talks
Endowed Lectures and Plenary Addresses
- Università degli Studi di Siena, Scuola di Studi Umanistici, Lectio Magistralis, November 2005
- Oklahoma University, “Dream Lecture,” hosted by the Renaissance Project 2005-2006, on the theme “Religion and Democracy,” September 2005
- European Association for the Study of Religion, Keynote address for a conference on “Exercising Power: The Role of Religions in Concord and Conflict,” held in Turku/Åbo, Finland, August 2005
- Ewha Women’s University (Seoul, Korea), Keynote address for Ok-Il Kim Memorial Conference on “Imagination and Globalization,” October 2004
- University of St. Thomas, School of Education (St. Paul, MN), Keynote address for the Tenth Annual Qualitative Research Conference on the theme “Cultural Incursions and Moral Inversions,” June 2004
- The Midgard Project (Lund University). Keynote address for a conference on “Old Norse Religion in Long-term Perspective,” June 2004
- Henry Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. Keynote address for a conference on “Religion, Conflict, and Violence,” May 2004
- Special session, American Academy of Religion, Southeast Regional meeting, February 2004 (Atlanta)
- Plenary address for a conference on “Religion(en) in Konflikt,” organized by the Deutsche Verein für Religionsgeschichte, September 2003 (Erfurt)
- Plenary address, American Academy of Religion, Rocky Mountain Regional meetings, April 2002 (Omaha)
- University of California, Berkeley, The Heller Conference on the Question of Comparison in Classical Studies
- Plenary address for an Interdisciplinary Conference on “The Cultural Turn” (Santa Barbara, 1999), organized by Dept. of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Carnegie-Mellon University, College of Humanities & Social Sciences Distinguished Lecture Series
- Dartmouth College, 21st Orr Lecture on Culture and Religion
- Plenary address for an International Conference on “The Division of Meat, Social Dynamics, and the Organization of the Cosmos” (Siena, 1983), co-organized by Dept. of Ancient Studies, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” and Dept. of Cultural Anthropology, Università degli Studi di Siena
- Haverford College, Gest Center for the Cross-Cultural Study of Religion Annual Conference
- Princeton University, Mellon Colloquium on Religion & Political Culture
- Reed College, Eliot Lecture In Religion
- Inaugural lecture, University of Minnesota Center for Humanistic Studies
Other Public Lectures
- Århus University (Denmark), Institute for the Study of Religion
- University of Arizona, Center for the Study of Religion and Violence
- Bates College, Dept. of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages & Literatures
- University of Bucharest (Rumania), Dept. of History
- Bucknell University, Program in Comparative Humanities
- Università degli Studi della Calabria, Dept. of Folklore
- University of California, Berkeley, Depts. of Classics and Scandinavian Languages
- University of California, Riverside, Center for Ideas and Society, Program in the Comparative Study of Ancient Civilizations
- University of California, Santa Cruz, Program in History of Consciousness
- Carnegie-Mellon University, Dept. of Philosophy
- Colgate University, Depts. of History, Philosophy and Religion, Political Science
- University of Colorado, Dept. of Religious Studies
- Columbia University & Barnard College, Religious Studies Dept.
- University of Copenhagen, Institute of History of Religions
- École pratique des hautes études, Ve Section (Sciences religieuses)
- Emory University, Dept. of Religion
- Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dept. of Philosophy
- Harvard University, Center for the Study of World Religions
- Lund University (Sweden), Institute of Comparative Religion
- Miami University (Ohio), School of Interdisciplinary Studies
- Midwestern Consortium on Ancient Religions
- Midwest Faculty Seminar
- University of Minnesota, Center for Humanistic Studies and Center for Medieval Studies
- Mount St. Mary's College (Maryland), Dept. of Theology
- New Bulgarian University (Sofia), Dept. of History of Culture
- New Europe College (Bucharest), Dept. of History
- University of North Florida, Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
- Ohio State University, Division of Comparative Studies
- University of Oslo, Institute of History of Religions
- Università di Roma “La Sapienza.” Depts. of Anthropology and Ancient Studies
- St. Cloud State University (Minnesota), Dept. of Anthropology
- Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), Faculty of Letters and Dept. of Ancient Studies
- Silk Road Foundation (Stanford)
- Stanford University, Dept. of Anthropological Sciences and Interdepartmental Center for Archeology
- Università degli Studi di Salerno, Depts. of Anthropology, Classics, and History of Religions
- Università degli Studi di Siena, Dept. of Anthropology and Center for the Anthropological Study of the Ancient World
- University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN), College of Education
- University of Stockholm, Institute of Comparative Religion
- University of Washington, Charles Walter Simpson Center for the Humanities
- Max Weber Kolleg (Erfurt)
- University of Wisconsin, Dept. of South Asian Studies
Papers presented by invitation at conferences
- American Anthropological Association
- American Academy of Religion
- American Society for the Study of Religion
- University of California, Davis, African and African-American Studies Program
- University of California, Irvine, Dept. of East Asian Studies
- University of California, Los Angeles, Program in Indo-European Studies and International University Center (Dubrovnik)
- University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept. of Sociology
- Chicago State University, Dept. of History, Philosophy and Political Science
- Danish Association for the History of Religions and National Museum of Denmark
- University of Illinois, Dept. of Classics
- International Association for the History of Religions
- International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Studies
- International Society for the Study of European Ideas
- Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Classics & Centre Louis Marin
- University of Ljubljana, Dept. of Ethnology & Cultural Anthropology
- Università degli Studi di Macerata, Institute of Linguistics and Dept. of History of Religions
- Mediterranean Ethnographic Summer Seminar (Piran, Slovenia)
- Istituto Orientale di Napoli, Dept. of Anthropology
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Ohio State University, Dept. of Classics
- Università degli Studi di Siena, Center for the Anthropological Study of the Ancient World
- Società Italiana di Storia delle Religioni
- University of Texas, Dept. of Oriental and African Languages and Literatures
- Tromsø University (Norway), Dept. of Classics
- University of Tübingen, Dept. of Religionswissenschaft
- World Zoroastrian Organization.
- Yale University, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies and School of Divinity
