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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...
December 4, 2019
Lecture by Natalie Carnes
Natalie Carnes, Baylor University, will lecture on "Attunement: The Feminist Voice and Christianity’s Patriarchal Tradition" on Tuesday, December 10th at 4:30pm, Swift Common Room. Abstract: This talk proposes attunement as an interpretive strateg...
November 22, 2019
Undergraduate Program
Our undergradaute program engages enduring questions about religion and human society. ...
November 21, 2019
The Anthony C. Yu Junior Faculty Fellowship
The Divinity School is pleased to announce the Anthony C. Yu Junior Faculty Fellowship, and to announce that Angie Heo, Assistant Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, will be its first recipient. Established through a $500,000 gif...
November 15, 2019
Lecture by Oludamini Ogunnaike
Oludamini Ogunnaike will deliver a lecture on Monday, Nov. 11: "Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing In Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions." Swift Hall Common Room, 4:30pm Based on the forthcoming book of the same title, this t...
November 11, 2019
Interview with Paul Mendes-Flohr
David Gottlieb (PhD'18) speaks with Prof. Emeritus Paul Mendes-Flohr on the New Books in Jewish Studies podcast. ...
November 11, 2019
Religions in the Americas Lecture by Emma Anderson
Emma Anderson, University of Ottawa will lecture on "The First Philosophes: The Unrecognized Impact of Native American Thought upon Europe" as part of our Religions in the Americas lecture series. Join us in Swift Hall’s Common Room (1st) floor at 4:...
November 11, 2019
Lecture by Emily Dumler-Winckler
Thursday, November 14: Lecture by Emily Dumler-Winckler, St. Louis University: "Mary Wollstonecraft’s Revolutionary Theological Taste." November 14 | 4:30 pm | Swift Common Room (1st floor) Contemporary disputes about virtues - from justice to ...