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Media Theorist Patrick Jagoda to Deliver 2026 Nuveen Lecture
The University of Chicago Divinity School is pleased to announce the 2026 Nuveen Lecture, funded by the Baptist Theological Union, to be delivered by Patrick Jagoda, William Rainey Harper Professor in the Departments of English Language and Literatur...
September 9, 2026
Div School Students Spent Summer 2026 in Museums, Archives, and Magazines
The University of Chicago Divinity School Summer Internships for the Public Understanding of Religion Program is supported by the Marty Center and the John C. and Jane Colman Program in the Craft of Teaching, Leadership, and Service. The program give...
September 8, 2026
Student Lilia Ellis on the Ethics of Assisted Suicide
In a new essay for The Christian Century, Ellis argues that debates over physician-assisted suicide skip past a more basic question: why people are in pain, and why their illnesses are considered incurable to begin with. Divinity School student Lilia...
August 5, 2026
Pop Religion | A Theme for Generations Hereafter: Professor Carolina López-Ruiz on Nolan's Odyssey, Faith, Fate, and Cultural Exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean
“And tell me too why you weep and lament thus bitterly when you hear told what things befell the Argives and Ilium. These things were the doing of the gods; they spun for mortals this thread of doom to become a theme for generations hereafter.” Home...
August 3, 2026
Why we still care about the ‘Odyssey’
Ahead of major film release, UChicago scholars discuss gods, heroes, casting and why Homer’s epic matters 3,000 years later “Tell me the story of a complicated man,” opens Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey.Odysseus, the epic’s hero and compli...
July 17, 2026
New Journal of Religion Issue Explores Susan Taubes, Kant, and the Politics of the Zhuangzi
The July 2026 issue of the Journal of Religion is now available, featuring new scholarship on modern Jewish thought, philosophy of religion, and classical Chinese political thought.The issue opens with a feature article examining the work of writer a...
July 14, 2026
Talking to God: Joan of Arc, Political Theology, and Swift Hall
These remarks were delivered at Swift Hall on the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park Campus on May 1, 2026. They have been adapted here for readability. Introduction: A View from Swift Hall Let me start by saying I am mindful that alumni are often an...
July 12, 2026
Laurie Zoloth on the Ethics of the First Synthetic Cell
Scientists have built a synthetic cell from scratch for the first time, and Laurie Zoloth, Margaret E. Burton Professor of Biomedical Ethics, was among the voices CNN turned to for perspective on what it means.The cell, nicknamed SpudCell, was assemb...
July 8, 2026
Angie Heo on Scent, Saints, and the Senses in Religious Life
Angie Heo, Associate Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, was recently quoted in the Chicago Reader in a piece examining how fragrance operates within religious experience.The article, written by Leslie Hurtado and published June ...
June 22, 2026
Anna Zeisel , MDiv'26, On Chaplaincy, Prayer, and The Future of Religious Leadership
Anna Zeisel came to the University of Chicago Divinity School by a route she hadn't planned. Drawn to work as a death doula, accompanying people through the final chapter of their lives, she learned that chaplaincy training was open to her as a non-C...
June 16, 2026