Dean’s Forums take place in the Common Room, 12:00-1:20pm.  See more general information here.

Autumn Quarter 2024
Wednesday, October 30:
In The Dharma of Unfaithful Wives and Faithful Jackals: Some Moral Tales from the Mahabharata, Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Professor Emerita of the History of Religions, translates and interprets tales from the Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata, that illustrate and often challenge the traditional dharma of women and animals. Professor Richard Rosengarten, Associate Professor of Religion, Literature, and Visual Culture, will respond.

Winter Quarter 2025
Monday, January 13: 
Sheila Jelen’s Testimonial Montage: A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance, with Cynthia Lindner responding.

Monday, February 17:
Anand Venkatkrishnan, Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History, with Kirsten Macfarlane responding.

Spring Quarter 2025
Wednesday, April 16:
Jaś Elsner, Amarāvatī: Art and Buddhism in Ancient India, with Christian Wedemeyer responding.

Monday, April 28:
Kirsten Macfarlane, Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World, with Anand Venkatkrishnan responding.

Monday, May 5: 
Yousef Casewit’s The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan, with Nariman Aavani responding.