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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...

Interview with Paul Mendes-Flohr

David Gottlieb (PhD'18) speaks with Prof. Emeritus Paul Mendes-Flohr on the New Books in Jewish Studies podcast.    ...

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:...

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 ...

Buddhism

Dan Arnold on 3:16 with Richard Marshall

Professor Dan Arnold is interested in philosophy of mind and Buddhism. In this interview with Richard Marshall of 3:16 he discusses the Indian Buddhist philosophy of Dharmakīrti through the lens of contemporary philosophy, its link to computational t...

Lecture by Nitzan Lebovic

Nitzan Lebovic will deliver a public lecture on Nov. 13: "A Temporal Turn: Buber, Benjamin, Arendt, and Celan." (Swift Hall Common Room, 4:30pm) A German Jewish Time tells the story of a group of twentieth-century Jewish intellectuals who grappled...

Lecture by Amir Syed

Wednesday, November 6th: Lecture by Amir Syed of The University of Pittsburgh: "The Realm of the Written: Textual Practice, Knowledge Transmission, and Scholarly Authority in 19th Century Islamic West Africa" November 6 | 4:30 pm | Swift Common Ro...

Faculty News & Spotlight

Haunted Ramadan

Haunted Ramadan: Ghosts, Devils, and the Soul of Iranian Television: Professor Alireza Doostdar explores the popularity of the Ramadan spiritual show, as well as how its rise coincided with a much wider efflorescence of metaphysical and occult intere...

Lecture by Leora Batnizky

Wednesday, October 30th: Lecture by Leora Batnizky of Princeton University: "Perplexed by What? Guides to Modern Jewish Life from Krochmal to Leibowitz" Wednesday, October 30 | 4:30 pm | Swift Common Room (1st floor) Abstract: Scholars continue...

Profile: Kirsten Boswell-Ford

The Rev. Kirstin Boswell-Ford has the kind of cosmopolitan background and burnished university career to make even the most blasé take notice. Growing up, she lived on several continents, toiled in the corporate world before studying in the Master...