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A Conference in Honor of Richard B. Miller

Professor Richard Miller’s scholarship has spanned a wide range of topics and themes, from the ethics of war and peace earlier in his career to his more recent reflection on the ends toward which the academic study of religion is ordered. Throughout ...

October 21, 2024

Hans Joas to Deliver the 2024 Nuveen Lecture

The Divinity School is pleased to announce that Hans Joas, Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at Humboldt University, Berlin, will deliver the 2024 John S. Nuveen Lecture. The lecture will be held on Friday, October 25, 2024, at ...

October 18, 2024

Conference on Pre-Roman Iberia

Negotiating Identities, Constructing Territories: Pre-Roman Iberia, 900 – 200 BCE...

October 15, 2024

Wendy Doniger Releases Her Latest Book

Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions, has recently published The Dharma of Unfaithful Wives and Faithful Jackals (Speaking Tiger, 2024)....

September 29, 2024

New Hebrew Festschrift in honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr

Is There Still a Place for Tiqqun Olam? A Book in honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr (Carmel, 2024)...

September 29, 2024

Matthew T. Kapstein Wins Book Award

Matthew T. Kapstein, Numata Visiting Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Studies, has been awarded The 2024 Toshihide Numata Book Award for his recent book Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Vol. 1: Elements (Cornell University Press, 2024)....