Past Events
Prof. Elizabeth A Clark
Conscience Against Commonwealth and Church
John Noonan Jr.
Two Mid-Third Century Bishops, Cyprian of Carthage and Dionysius of Alexandria: Congruences and Divergences
Prof. Graeme Clark
The Doctrine of the Trinity: The Cappadocian Fathers and Today
Bishop Kallistos Ware
Medicine and Compassion in Early Christianity
Prof. Gary B Ferngren
Divine Sovereignty and Human Agency in the Theology of St. Augustine
Prof. J. Patout Burns
Science and/or Religion
Professor Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas-Austin
Poverty and Social Status in Paul's Churches: Prospects for a Demography of Pauline Mission
Prof. Steve Friesen
The Image of the Invisible God in Early Christian Art
Prof. Robin Jensen
Genes, Genesis and God
Professor Holmes Rolston III of Colorado State University
When is a Text About a Woman a Text About a Woman: Dilemmas of a Feminist Historian of Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
Prof. Ross S. Kraemer
Who Are We Really? A Platonist's Contribution to Christianity
Prof. Margaret R. Miles
Lost Gospels and Rediscovered Christianities
Prof. Bart D. Ehrman
From Quantum to Consciousness: Does Emergence Support the Language of Spirit?
Professor Philip Clayton of the Claremont School of Theology & Claremont Graduate University
Religious Naturalism and Ecomorality
Ursula Goodenough, Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis
A Site of Blessings, Dreams, and Wonders: The Egyptian Saint's Shrine as Crucible of Christianization, ca. 400-700 CE
Prof. David Frankfurter
Navigating a Post 9/11 World: A Decade of Lessons Learned
Welcome Reception for R. Marie Griffith, Director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics
How American Christians Learned to Talk About Homosexuality
Mark D. Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
Norman Mailer, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Civil Friendship That Shaped an Uncivil Decade
Kevin M. Schultz, Assistant Professor of History and Catholic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
Can Religion and Politics Make Us More Civil and Not Just Angry?
J. Dionne Jr., Georgetown University
Shugendō Now film screening and informal discussion with producer Mark Patrick McGuire
Graduate Conference on the History of the Body
The Prophetic Conflict: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Second World War
William Charles Inboden, University of Texas at Austin
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Robert D. Putnam, Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
The Centrality of Philosophy in the Pre-Modern Islamic Intellectual Tradition
Dimitri Gutas, Professor of Arabic and Graeco-Arabic at Yale University
The Meanings of Travel in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana
Roshan Abraham, Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies
The Spirit of the Law: Separation of Church and State from 1945–1990
Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania
The Politics of ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ America
Laura R. Olson, Professor of Political Science, Clemson University
Aristotle Absent
Tony Street, Cambridge University
Muslim American Dissent and U.S. Politics Before and After 9/11
Edward E. Curtis IV, IUPUI
Courts, Coercion, and Culture: The Meaning of Religion in Public Spaces
Tsvi Blanchard, Senior Fellow and Director of Organizational Development at CLAL
Is There Room for Mercy in the Sexuality Debates? Shifting the Terms of our Religious-Political Stalemate
Marie Griffith, Director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics
Healing the Heart of Democracy
Parker Palmer, Best-selling author, educator, and Center for Courage & Renewal founder and senior partner
Shakespeare: The Merciless and the Merciful
Robert Wiltenburg, Dean of University College
Commentaries and Originality in Later Islamic Astronomy
George Saliba, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science, Columbia University
The Works of Mercy
Daniel Bornstein, Darrow Professor of Catholic Studies, Director of Religious Studies
The Long Approach to the Mormon Moment: The Building of an American Church
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Children at Play in China: The Trifling, the Wicked, and the Sacred
Pauline Lee, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Religious Studies
The History of Science in the Post-Classical Period (Astronomy, Optics, Life Sciences, and Mathematics)
Rationalist Sciences II
Senior Symposium
Redeeming the Soul of America?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Promise of the Engaged Scholar
Muslim Conversions to Christianity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Dr. Nabil Matar
The History of the Body
The 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference
Mysteries of the Womb
The Body Natural and the Body Islamic, or, The Power of a Legal Fiction
"To Piety More Prone:" Gender and Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Dr. Eric Dursteler
Rescheduled: Religion and Politics Fall 2012 Keynote Lecture
With George F. Will
Making Our Voices Heard: Women’s Rights Today
Sandra Fluke
Why Are U.S. Prisons so Religious? The Ascendance of Faith-Based Programs in an Age of Punitive Incarceration
Prof. Tanya Erzen
Christian God and Hostile State: The Religious Dimension of the US-China Conflicts in the Korean War Years
Prof. Joseph Lee
Christians in the Roman Arena
Kathleen Coleman presents the John and Penelope Biggs Classics Lecture
Religious Equality: American Commitment or Global Ideal?
Prof. Christopher Eisgruber
Islam & Muslims as American Political Footballs
Arsalan Iftikhar
Losing America, Trying for the World: The Origins of Global Protestantism
Prof. Sam Haselby
Religious Studies Senior Symposium
U.S. Religion and Politics in Multidisciplinary Perspective
A Conference
"Grill the Seniors"
Come "Grill the Seniors" about life in the Religious Studies program over some grilled snacks!
Welcoming the Stranger
A Panel Discussion on Religion & Immigration
'Rome' in the Nineteenth-Century Protestant Imaginary: American Professors, Ancient 'Pagans,' and Early Christianity
Prof. Elizabeth Clark
Beguines, Jews, and Friars: The Narrative of Urban Religion in Thirteenth-Century Europe
Prof. John Van Engen
Danforth Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. David A. Hollinger
“Protestant Foreign Missions and Secularization in Modern America”
Information & Welcome Session
FREE THE MIND: Can You Rewire the Brain Just by Taking a Breath?
A documentary film by Phie Ambo
Change Your Brain by Transforming Your Mind
Dr. Richard J. Davidson, William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Beyond the Culture Wars: Recasting Religion and Politics in 20th Century America
Pulping "The Hindus:" Freedom and Censorship in India
The Clash Between Mythology and Reason in Paternal Recognition Narratives
Prof. Wendy Doniger
Senior Symposium
2014 Holocaust Memorial Lecture
"Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War & the Holocaust" by David Shneer
"Writing in Water”
Film Screening and Discussion with the Filmmaker, Angela Zito
Obamacare and American Values (Religion, Medicine, and Law Lecture Series)
Prof. David M. Craig
The Faith Community’s Role in Health Care (Religion, Medicine, and Law Lecture Series)
Dr. Scott Morris
On Transparency: Christian Drug Rehabilitation Centers in Guatemala (Religion, Medicine, and Law Lecture Series)
Prof. Kevin Lewis O’Neill
A Protestant in the Garb of a Friar: Jacobean Dreams of Reformation in Venice
Prof. David Read
Lecture by His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York
"Thread of a Community - The Zerrouf beyond Tlemcent, 1962 - 1973"
IAS/SIR Speaker Series: Dr. Sara Jay
The Black Muslim Encounter and Why it Matters
Prof. Zain Abdullah
Ethnographic Theory: Religion and the Lability of Form
Prof. Brian Larkin
Religious Wars in the East: Why Should we Remain Optimistic
Prof. Itai Sened
Visual Ontologies: Style, Archaism, and the Construction of the Sacred in the Western Tradition—From Antiquity to Modernity and Back
Prof. Jas' Elsner
Rethinking the Long Reformation: Purity, Purgation, and Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World
Prof. Nicholas Terpstra
Religion in the Public Sphere: Case Studies in Hope and Stress
Various speakers including Prof. John Bowen and Prof. Marie Griffith
End of Year Celebration!
Robert Morrell Memorial Service
Religious Studies and Religion & Politics Open House
You're Invited to Drop in for Coffee
Religion and literature reading group meeting
with Prof. Adam Potkay
Danforth Dialogues: Envisioning the Future of Religion and Politics in America
Pluralism, Prejudice and the Promise of America
Eboo Patel
Combatting Islamophobia
Spiritual Values and Politics
Prof. Randall Balmer
Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies & Threatens Our Freedom
Arsalan Iftikhar
You're Invited to Drop in for Coffee
Subtraction Stories and A Secular Age
A discussion with Visiting Hurst Professor Charles Taylor
Composing a Life: Women Inspiring Women
A panel of 5 dynamic, diverse women sharing insights about life after college
Fall Film Series: Lars and the Real Girl
Faith and Power: Religion and the American Presidency from the Founding to Trump v. Clinton
Jon Meacham
You're Invited to Drop in for Coffee
Solidarity and the Limits of Secularization: Habermas, Religion, and Moral Aesthetics
Charlie Lesch, Mellon Postdoc in Modelling and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Discussant- Jim Bohman, Philosophy, SLU
TAK Day - Student & Faculty Mix & Mingle
Hosted by Theta Alpha Kappa
Fall Film Series: Spotlight
Obedience and Resistance: Principles for Ethical Living
David R. Blumenthal
The Organization of Life in Ancient and Early Medieval China: Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist Approaches
Brown Bag luncheon with Prof. Dennis Schilling
Drop in for Coffee Hour
Fall Film Series: Selma
Work as Worship: Emerson’s Emancipating Religious and Political Journey (Thomas Lamb Eliot Lecture)
Prof. David M. Robinson
Refusing Optimism: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Anti-blackness, and the Ethics of Anguish
Prof. Joseph Winters
The Art and Politics of African American Faith
Prof. Josef Sorett
Drop in for Coffee Hour
Major-Minor Welcome Dinner
Spring Film Series: Princess Mononoke
No Human Right to Sodomy: The Christian Right and SOGI Human Rights
Prof. Cynthia Burack
Between Islamophobia and Homophobia: Gender, Sexuality, and Liberal Engagements with Islam
Prof. Joseph Massad
Drop in for Coffee Hour
Spring Film Series: Spirited Away
The God Debate: Does God Exist? Does It Even Matter?
Wallace Marshall & James Croft
Francis of Assisi on Eating and Worshipping with Animals
Prof. Susan Crane
Drop in for Coffee Hour
The Digital Future of Early Christian Studies: Utopian, Apocalyptic, and Apocryphal
Prof. Caroline T. Schroeder
“An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story”
Film Screening and Panel Discussion
SLU Event: "Christ, Creator and Creature: Reflections on Christology and the Nature of Created Being"
Dr. Rowan Williams
Jews and Muslims Turn Hate to Humanity: Interfaith Collaboration in Times of Religious Violence
Spring Film Series: Star Wars IV: A New Hope
Drop in for Coffee Hour
Biblical Themes, Muslim Artists
Prof. G. John Renard
History Department Colloquium - "American Protestants and the International Origins of the 1960s Democratic Revolution"
Dr. Gene Zubovich
Spring Film Series: Run Lola Run
Drop in for Coffee Hour
Workshop in Politics, Ethics, and Society: "Immigrant Identity and Political Radicalization among Young Muslim Women"
Prof. Sunita Parikh
Prepositional Bodies: Sensation and Translation in Manchu
Prof. Carla Nappi
Drop in for Coffee Hour
Religious Studies Senior Symposium
Religious Studies and Religion & Politics Open House
Preserving a United Nation: Moving Forward Together Despite Our Differences
A Conversation with John C. Danforth
Coffee Hour
Migration in Life and Death: Jewish Inscriptions from Graeco-Roman Iudaea/Palaestina
Prof. Jonathan Price
Textual Intercourse: What Sex Can Teach Us About Contemporary Problems and Rabbinic Texts
Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi
Major-Minor Fair
Healing Dirt: Catholic Devotion, Tourism, and the Santuario de Chimayó
Prof. Brett Hendrickson
Gratitude and Treasuring Lives: Eating Animals in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Barbara R. Ambros, Professor in East Asian Religions, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Coffee Hour
Trivia Night
Coffee Hour
Assembly Series: Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz
Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat
Coffee Hour
Study Break
Coffee Hour
Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World
Prof. Mark R. Cohen
What do Francis of Assisi and Francis of Buenos Aires Have in Common? A ‘Franciscan’ Perspective on the Common Good
Fr. Michael Perry
Faculty Book Talk: Marie Griffith on Moral Combat
Religion and Politics in an Age of Fracture: Davis, Inazu, Patel
"Embodying Intimacy: New Work on Voice and Performance" Panel Discussion
Major-Minor Welcome Luncheon
The Relevance of Religion for Leadership: How Religious Traditions Can Inform Leadership Values and Approaches
Coffee Hour
Religion and Politics in Early America (Beginnings to 1820)
Religion and Politics in an Age of Fracture: Patel, Stern
Weltin Lecture - Art, Music, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
Prof. Elaine Pagels
Religion and Politics in an Age of Fracture: Inazu, Green
Reunion of Biggs Family Residents
A Colloquium featuring 17 leading Classical Scholars who have been Biggs Family Residents in Classics
A Public Event in Recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the Death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Exceptionally Religious? A History of Muslim, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East
Prof. Heather J. Sharkey
Coffee Hour
Anova Lecture for Landscape Architecture: Michael Rakowitz
Religious Studies Senior Symposium
Religious Studies and Religion & Politics Open House
Welcome incoming students!
Visiting Hurst Professor Jericho Brown reads from his poetry
JINELC Colloquium - Painted Memories: A Jewish Childhood in Poland
Dr. Barbara Kirschblatt-Gimblett
Rising from the Rubble: Creating POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Religious Studies Reception
Come mix and mingle with faculty and students.
The Second Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: "Five Promontories on the Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE – 800 CE"
Robert Campany, Professor of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University
“Father’s Kingdom” Film Screening and Discussion at St. Louis International Film Festival
In the early 1900s, an African-American man named Reverend M.J. Divine — the son of emancipated slaves — began a religious movement that would reach more than a million followers at its peak, crossing racial divisions and advocating for gender and economic equality.
Humanities Lecture Series: "Holy Moses: An appreciation of Genesis and Exodus as literature and theology"
Marilynne Robinson
Human Rights, Counter-terrorism, and Islamic Reform: An Insider’s View of US Policy Debates
Ismail Royer
A Fresh View of a Historic Presidency: An Evening with Stuart Eizenstat
Study Break
Lunch from 11 to 1 and Snacks from 1 to 4
2019 Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Conference
Living with Others: Conscience, Coercion, and Freedom
Coffee Hour
Religious Studies invites you to our monthly coffee hour!
Religion and Democrats in 2020: The Devil’s in the Details
A public Lecture by Amy Sullivan, Journalist and Author of The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats are Closing the God Gap.
Religion and Polarized Politics: Peter Wehner and Melissa Rogers on Revitalizing Democratic Pluralism
Moderated discussion between Peter Wehner and Melissa Rogers, two former White House officials
Coffee Hour - Major/Minor Welcome
Help us welcome our new majors and minors at this special coffee hour!
Welcoming the Stranger to St. Louis: Religious Responses to Recent Immigrants and Refugees
Address by Anna Crosslin, President and CEO of the International Institute of St. Louis, followed by a panel discussion with local religious leaders
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
2018-2019 Weltin Lecture: Jesus the Jewish Storyteller: Of Pearls and Prodigals
Lecture by Amy-Jill Levine, University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies, & Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University.
The Political Captivity of the Faithful
Lecture by Dr. Nathan Hatch, president of Wake Forest University.
Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan
Jolyon Thomas, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Identifying Depression: Jewish and Psychological Perspectives
Dr. David Pelcovitz will deliver the Boniuk-Tanzman Family Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics.
Torah Edgeplay: Risk, Community, and Ethics from the Beit Midrash to BDSM
The talk, Torah Edgeplay, is being presented by Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi, Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies.
Coffee Hour
Religious Studies invites you to our monthly coffee hour!
Liberal Arts Education: What’s the Point? Robert George and Cornel West in Conversation
Public conversation and reception with Professors George and West.
The First Atlantic Revolution? Islam, Abolition, & Republic in West Africa & the Americas, 1770-1806
Professor Butch Ware, Department of History at UC Santa Barbara
Theta Alpha Kappa Ice Cream Social
Come meet our newest members & celebrate the end of the semester!
Religious Studies Senior Symposium
Religious Studies and Religion & Politics Open House
Welcome incoming students!
Overcoming Political Tribalism and Recovering Our American Democracy
A Public Conversation Between Amy Chua and John Danforth
Religious Studies Fall Coffee Hour
Stop by for refreshments and lively conversation!
Arts & Sciences Major-Minor Fair
Students, come learn about Religious Studies!
Religious Studies Fall Coffee Hour
Stop by for refreshments and lively conversation!
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
What You Need to Know about Islam and Politics to Understand the World Today
Dr. David Warren, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.
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.
Stellar Evolution and Recent Discoveries by the Vatican Observatory
Fr. David Brown, SJ will speak about his scientific discoveries and his time as a Vatican astronomer.
“The Judge” Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Join us for this special screening of the new documentary “The Judge” that tells the story of the Palestinian judge Khulud al-Faqih – the first woman to be appointed as a judge on a religious court anywhere in the Middle East.
Religious Studies Fall Coffee Hour
Stop by for refreshments and lively conversation!
Doc Shorts: Leaps of Faith
An eclectic selection of films — from the comedic to the deadly serious — that explore religion in its many manifestations.
Patrinell: The Total Experience
Movie Directed by: Andrew Elizaga & Tia Young. Because of the steady exodus of African Americans from the rapidly gentrifying, historically black neighborhood of Seattle’s Central District, the city’s extraordinarily gifted “First Lady of Gospel,” the Rev. Patrinell Staten Wright, struggles to maintain the world-famous Total Experience Gospel Choir, which she has directed for 45 years.
22nd Annual Nelson Wu Lecture: "Dancing in Circles in the Arts on India and Its Neighbors"
Forrest McGill, Wattis Senior Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Book Talk: Phillip Maciak
TAK Study Break
Join us in taking a moment to relax and regain energy!
Cultural Liturgies and the Myth of Secularism
Panel discussion with Dr. Tim O'Malley, Theology professor at the University of Notre Dame, and Steward Clem, an Episcopal Priest and professor at the Aquinas Institute of Theology.
Religious Studies Major/Minor Welcome and Coffee Hour
Help us welcome our new majors and minors at this special coffee hour!
Liberty of Conscience as a Tool of Empire: England and Its Restoration Colonies, 1660-1689
Daniel K. Richter is the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Realist Ecstasy and The Disappearing Christ
Authors, Lindsay V. Reckson and Phillip Maciak in Conversation, moderated by Rebecca Wanzo, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Interfaith Week
Celebrating Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Diversity at WashU
Translating the Untranslatable: Proper Names in the Septuagint and in Jerome's Vulgate
Christophe Rico, École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, Polis Institute
Designer Babies and Choosing Disabilities: Ethical Considerations of Deliberately Creating a Disabled Child by IVF
Dr. Daniel Eisenberg, Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine
Trivia with TAK
Are you ready for a Trivia Night?
CANCELED: 2019-2020 Weltin Lecture: Navigating Ancient Waters: The Story of Noah in the New World
Paul Gutjahr, Ph.D.
Ruth N. Halls Professor of English; Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, and Undergraduate Education at Indiana University
CANCELED - “Thank God I am a Comedian”: “Deplorable Exegesis” in the Activism of Dick Gregory
Prof. Vaughn A. Booker, Jr., Assistant Professor of Religion and African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College
*CANCELLED* Material Girls: Body Modification and Gender in the Hebrew Bible
Rosanne Liebermann, Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies
POSTPONED - Global Reception of the Classic Zhuangzi: Song to Ming
The Zhuangzi’s influence on (Chinese) literature is immense. From Jia Yi 賈誼 (200-169 BCE) and Sima Qian 司馬遷 (c. 145-86 BCE) onward, there was almost nobody of the great writers of the past who was not affected by it. In this second workshop, we explore the Zhuangzi’s reception history during the Song 宋 (960-1279), Yuan 元 (1279-1368), and Ming 明 (1368-1644) dynasties.
CANCELED - The Origins of Chinese Religion: Early Narratives of State Control Over Excessive Sacrifice
Prof. Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Professor and Eliaser Chair of International Studies at Berkley University
*CANCELLED* 2020 Adam Cherrick Lecture -- Facing Deportation: Sephardic Jews, Race, and Immigration Restriction in the United States
Devin E. Naar, PhD - Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and Chair of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington, Seattle
CANCELED - Religious Studies Spring Coffee Hour
Stop by for refreshments and lively conversation!
POSTPONED: Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America
Prof. Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame
POSTPONED - A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Evidence of Female Literacy in Ancient Egypt
Dr. Mariam Ayad, Associate Professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo
Canceled - Book Talk: Abram Van Engen
CANCELED - Religious Studies Senior Symposium
You're invited to join us for our Senior Symposium.
Uyghur Human Rights Week Panels
Uyghur Human Rights Week is a student-organized and student-led effort to raise awareness about the oppression of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and beyond.
Major/Minor Fair
Please join us for the Virtual Major/Minor Fair and learn more about Religious Studies!
Fourth Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: "Religious Self-Cultivation as Politics: Examples from Grassroots-Level Activism in Japan"
Levi McLaughlin, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
2020-2021 Weltin Lecture: Reading Race in Early Christian Texts
Dr. Philippa Townsend, Chancellor's Fellow in New Testament and Christian Origins, Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, School of Divinity, New College, University of Edinburgh
Religious Studies and John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Open House
Welcome incoming students!
Texas and the Future of Abortion Law and Reproductive Justice
Panelists:
Marie Griffith, Director, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities;
Zakiya T. Luna, Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar, Department of Sociology; and
Susan Appleton, Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law
"Performing for God and Country: Branson Entertainment and the Rise of the Christian Right"
Joanna Dee Das, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Dance in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis
Faculty Colloquium by Professor Wolfram Schmidgen: Theology and Literary Invention
Please join us for this in-person faculty colloquium in Hurst Lounge.
Major/Minor Fair with Religious Studies and Religion & Politics
Please join us for the Virtual Major/Minor Fair and learn more about Religious Studies and Religion & Politics!
Fifth Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: Gods and Things in Four Asian Places
Laurel Kendall, American Museum of Natural History
Challenges to Writing a Commentary on the Gospel of Judas
Lance Jenott, Lecturer in Classics and Religious Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Book Launch: The Laws of Hammurabi
Please join us for the exciting Zoom book launch of The Laws of Hammurabi: at the Confluence of Royal & Scribal Traditions - with Author, Pamela Barmash and Guest Speaker, Bruce Wells
Middle East - North Africa Film Series
The Spring 2022 MENA film series features "Wadjda" (February 21) and "Tenja" (April 4).
Sharia Genres and their Writers in Imamic Yemen
Please join us for a talk by Dr. Brinkley Messick
The Annual Distinguished Jewish Studies Lecture in JIMES
From Skokie to Charlottesville: American Antisemitism in Court -- with Prof. James Loeffler, University of Virginia
The Disinherited: Christianity and Conversion in Calcutta in the 19th Century
Please join us for "The Disinherited: Christianity and Conversion in Calcutta in the 19th Century" by Dr. Mou Banerjee
Middle East - North Africa Film Series
Footnote (Hearat Shulayim)
2011/107 min.
Directed by Joseph Cedar.
ArtSci Major-Minor Welcome
Tuesday, March 22
9:00am-10:00am
Dr. Mark Valeri, Interim Director of Religious Studies, Director of Undergraduate Religious Studies
2021-2022 Weltin Lecture: Signifying on the “Tribe[s] of Interpreters”: “Early Christianity” as Colonialist-Nationalist Masquerade
Dr. Vincent L. Wimbush - Director, Institute for Signifying Scriptures
Conspiracy! Evangelicals, Fear, and Nationalism in the 21st Century
Join us for this public lecture by Professor Anthea Butler.
An Island Retreat: Sin, Secrecy, and the Offshoring of Sexually Abusive Priests
Please join us for this public lecture by Professor Kevin Lewis O’Neill.
Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
A public lecture by Mark Oppenheimer.
Sixth Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: Turning Ghosts into People: Religion and Gender Politics in the Chinese Communist Revolution
Xiaofei Kang, associate professor of religion, The George Washington University
"Catholicism as the key to Understanding the Religions of the World in the Eighteenth Century"
Mark Valeri,
Interim Director of Program in Religious Studies,
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Program in Religious Studies, and
Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics
The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust
Jeffrey Veidlinger, the Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan - Holocaust Memorial Lecture
SLIFF: Where Is Anne Frank
31st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), running November 3-13. All SLIFF screenings at Washington University are FREE and Open to the public.
Missouri Historical Review Author Series: Kelly Schmidt on Slavery and the Catholic Church in Missouri
Join historian Kelly Schmidt for a discussion of her research on people enslaved by the early Catholic Church in Missouri and the communities they formed to help each other through their hardships, challenge the terms of their bondage, and ultimately seek their freedom. A postdoctoral research associate for the Washington University and Slavery Project, Schmidt is the author of the April 2022 Missouri Historical Review article “Slavery and the Shaping of Catholic Missouri, 1810–1850.”
Why Institutions Matter: Religious Perspectives on Building and Sustaining Institutions in a Fractured Society
This dialogue between some of the nation’s foremost thinkers on institutions and religious pluralism will focus on the challenges and opportunities of building and sustaining civic institutions in a polarized society. Speakers include Richard Garnett, Notre Dame Law School; Shadi Hamid, Brookings Institution; Kristen Deede Johnson, Western Seminary; and Yuval Levin, American Enterprise Institute. The panel will be moderated by John Inazu, who holds a joint appointment with the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics and the School of Law.
Pulitzer Reporting Fellowship Info Session
Learn about the Pulitzer Center Student Reporting Fellowship and conduct an independent research project about an underreported issue in today’s world.
Launch Week: Choosing a Study Abroad Program Info Session
Join us for a session led by OSP advisors & study abroad alumni on considerations for choosing a study abroad program.
Launch Week: Financing a Study Abroad Program Info Session
Join us for a session led by OSP advisors and study abroad alumni about understanding the costs associated with a study abroad program and applying for external scholarship opportunities.
Launch Week: Study Abroad Housing Options Panel
Learn from study abroad alumni about some of the different study abroad housing options on A&S Study abroad programs.
The Inaugural Stern Family Lecture with Joseph Sassoon
Joseph Sassoon is Professor of History and Political Economy at Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and holds the al-Sabah Chair in Politics and Political Economy of the Arab World.
Israel Approaching 75: Reform, Protests & Contexts
Facilitated by Dr. Ayala Hendin, Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (JIMES)
Annual Weltin Lecture: "The Wild Edges of Character: Creation in the Gospel of Luke," with Michal Beth Dinkler
Michal Beth Dinkler, Associate Professor of the New Testament at Yale Divinity School, joins the Religious Studies Program for the Annual Weltin Lecture on April 4, 2023
Trivia Night with TAK
Are you ready for Trivia Night?
Micah Bazant - Anti-Racism and Creative Practice
Visiting artist Micah Bazant is a trans, Jewish artist and organizer.
Eid Ul-Fitr and End of Semester Celebration
Toqeer Shah is a Lecturer of Urdu in the Hindi department, Housni Bennis is a Senior Lecturer in the Arabic departmet, and Hayrettin Yücesoy is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
The Problem of Josephus
Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University
Lecture-concert: "Israeli art-song: between fantasies and realities"
Sponsorship by the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies is made possible by the Stern Family Foundation
The Handshake That Shook the World: A 30 Year Reflection on the Oslo Accords
Daniel Kurtzer is the former US Ambassador to Egypt (1997 - 2001) and Israel (2001 - 2005)
Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust
Ari Joskowicz (Vanderbilt University) is author of “Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust,” a major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justice - Annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture
Imagined Communities: Myth, Memory, and the Temple of St. Andrew at Old St. Peter’s
Dennis Trout, University of Missouri
The Biggs Family Residency in Classics: Dr. Francesco De Angelis
Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Colloquium--The Making of Victory: Triumphal Arches and Their Representation in Roman Art.
Francesco de Angelis, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Visiting Hurst Professor: Tracy Fessenden - Talk
Washington University Department of English is proud to welcome Professor Tracy Fessenden as part of its Hurst Visiting Professors Series.
Seminar--Paying Attention: Images of Arches on Ancient Roman Coins.
Francesco de Angelis, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Lecture--What Monuments for a Modern Century? Italian Colonial Arches in Africa
Francesco de Angelis, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
2024 IPH Junior Comp Exam Lecture featuring Brian Copenhaver
Lawn Care, Magic and the Art of Poetry Today
2023-2024 Annual Weltin Lecture: “Theft, Forgery, and Scholarship: The Trafficking of Ancient Jewish and Christian Manuscripts”
Brent Nongbri, professor of History of Religions at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society in Oslo