Religious Studies Fall Coffee Hour
Stop by for refreshments and lively conversation!
Upcoming Events
Third Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: "Foxes, Gods and Monsters in the Edo Anthropocene"
Michael Bathgate, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Religious Studies and Theology, Saint Xavier University
What You Need to Know about Antisemitism and Islamophobia to Understand the World Today
Dr. Hillel J. Kieval, Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought and Chair of the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.
When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom
Asma Uddin unpacks the claims of her new book, When Islam Is Not a Religion. Followed by a panel discussion where she will be joined by Prof. Tazeen Ali and Prof. Laurie Maffly-Kipp, moderated by Prof. John Inazu.
The Color of Compromise
A public dialogue between author Jemar Tisby and John Inazu on Tisby’s acclaimed book The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism.
Water Histories of Ancient Yemen and the American West
Michael Harrower, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Director of Undergraduate Studies - Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University
The Biblical Prophets and their Social World
Victor H. Matthews, PhD - Dean of the College of Humanities and Public Affairs and Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University
We Believe in Dinosaurs
Movie by Clayton Brown & Monica Long Ross. “We Believe in Dinosaurs” tells the story of the troubling relationship between science and religion in the United States.
We Are Not Princesses
“We Are Not Princesses” offers moving profiles of a half-dozen Syrian women refugees in Beirut who come together to tell their stories of love, loss, pain, and hope through the lens of the ancient Greek play “Antigone.” More a therapeutic exercise than a purely artistic enterprise, the theatrical production helps the women find community and process their trauma. Most of the women — resilient, intelligent, articulate — relate their own stories onscreen. Other participants, however, remain unseen, their histories presented through lovely animation because their husbands would not allow them to appear on camera, which speaks to the many challenges they face: not just their traumatic dislocation but also the sociocultural restrictions on their autonomy.