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John Holt: Narratives of Siege: Understanding Buddhist/Muslim Conflicts in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand
John Holt will give a public lecture on February 17, 4:30pm, Swift Common Room entitled “Narratives of Siege: Understanding Buddhist/Muslim Conflicts in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand.” Why have Buddhist and Muslim communities in these three coun...
January 24, 2020
Lecture by Allyson Gonzalez
Allyson Gonzalez will give a public lecture entitled “Performing the Sephardic: Jewish Modernity After the Mystique” on Monday, February 3, 4:30pm, in Swift Common Room. What does it mean to think about religious studies through the lens of perfor...
January 22, 2020
Religion in the Frame
The Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion is pleased to present a film and discussion series in conjunction with Facets Multimedia: Religion in the Frame. ...
January 16, 2020
Lecture by David Tavárez
"Rethinking Colonial Time: Zapotec Cosmology and the Local Politics of the Universe," a public lecture by David Tavárez, will be held on Tuesday February 18th at 4:30pm in the Swift Common Room. After the most ambitious campaign against Indigenous...
January 14, 2020
Lecture by William Schultz
"The Rise of the Evangelical Vatican: Christianity, Capitalism, and the American Culture Wars," a lecture by William Schultz, will take place on February 12 at 4:30pm in Swift Common Room. William Schultz is a historian of American re...
January 14, 2020
Lecture by Avigail Manekin-Bamberger
A public lecture by Avigail Manekin-Bamberger: "Scholastics, Scribes, and Sorcerers: Toward a New History of Rabbinic Judaism in the Sasanian Empire" will take place on Tuesday, January 21, at 4:30pm in the Swift Hall Common Room (1st floor). A...
January 2, 2020
Lecture by Rachel Rafael Neis
A public lecture by Rachel Rafael Neis: "When a Woman Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species in Late Antiquity " will take place on Monday, January 27th, at 4:30pm in Swift Hall Common Room (1st floor). The biblical idea of...
December 23, 2019
Lecture by Tzvi Novick
A public lecture by Tzvi Novick: " Gender Separation in the Literature of the Late Antique Synagogue" will take place on Wednesday, January 8th, at 4:30pm in Swift Hall Common Room (1st floor). The paper examines the degree to which and the ways i...
December 11, 2019
Otten Receives Honorary Doctorate
Willimien Otten has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen), Denmark. Honorary doctorates are awarded to a number of researchers who have played a significant role in research or education and re the ...
December 9, 2019
Lecture by Laura Lieber
Laura Lieber, Duke University, will lecture on “An Unholy Spectacle: The Ordeal of the Accused Adulteress in the Early Synagogue” on Wednesday, January 29th, 4:30pm, public lecture in the Common Room. Using the trial of the accused adulteress (th...