Lectures and Events
The Religion Department offers lectures and other events.
Upcoming Events
Award-winning essayist Meghan O’Gieblyn, author of God, Human, Animal, Machine, delivers a Philosopher’s Holiday Lecture.
Campus community only, please.
Previous Lecture Archive
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Onaje Woodbine
“Who’s Got Next? A Black Hoops Liberating Spirituality
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Kathryn Lofton
The Present Life of Blasphemy: Kanye West in American Popular Culture
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Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
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Robert Orsi
Religious Dimensions of the Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis.
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Lila Abu-Lughod
Framing Islam: “Violent Extremism” and the Rise of Securofeminism
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Josef Sorett
Between Blessings & Light Beams: Surfing the Sacred/Secular Divide in Black Popular Music
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Thomas Lewis
Discipline, freedom, and the formation of the modern subject
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Hamza Yusuf
The Arts of Freedom: Protecting the Mind in an Age of Mass Media
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Wendy Doniger
The Mythology of Women and their Jewelry
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Sayed Kashua
Arab Labor: An Evening with Sayed Kashua
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Joshua Dubler
From Black Muslim to Salaf : The Evolution of Islam in an American Prison
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Stacey Floyd-Thomas ’91
The Color Line and the Culture Wars: Religion, Education and Sub-rosa Morality in the Age of Obama
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Judith Butler
Martin Buber’s Two Zionisms and the Question of Palestine
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Talal Asad, Ph.D.
Thinking About the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics
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Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
“Pragmatism and the Challenges of Post-Soul Politics”
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Lama Surya Das
Buddhism in America
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Cornell West
Restoring Hope
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David Chidester
“Blood Money: Elementary Forms of the Political Economy of the Sacred”
