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Religion’s Graduation Reception for 2024 Graduates & Family Members

Dear Religion Colleagues and Graduate Students,

Our annual graduation reception will take place on Friday May 10, from 2PM-4PM in Adinkra Hall, which is on the fourth floor of Memorial Hall. We will be honoring graduating majors and graduate students in Religion and Arabic . Accompanying family members are welcome. Please RSVP.  We would love to see all colleagues and graduate students there to congratulate our 2024 graduates!

Hammad Khan receives Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

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Congratulations to Hammad Khan for receiving a 2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award!

The Center for Teaching and Learning administers the Outstanding Teaching Assistant (OTA) award, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction. This award recognizes teaching assistants who demonstrate superior instructional skills while serving in the classroom or laboratory.

Prof. June McDaniel to deliver Howard Lecture on "Contemplative Psychology: Some Eastern and Western Understandings of the Mind and Spirit"

This lecture compares ideas of religious and mystical experience in Eastern and Western understandings of the self.  We shall examine models of how the self is constructed, and how visionary experience works.  It explores the question:  How do people perceive God in Western psychology and Indian philosophy?

Director of IAAS and All Shall Be Well Professor of Religion, Dr. Carolyn Jones Medine, participates in the 2023 Interfaith Coalition Conference for Global Citizens

From August 21 – 23, 2023, over 200 delegates from around the world gathered in Seoul and Iksan, South Korea, for the Interfaith Coalition Conference for Global Citizens where meetings and dialogue centered around the theme, “Shaping our Future Together: Engaged Spirituality in the Era of Crisis.” The ICCGC launched in 2020 and aims to promote global citizenship education in religious communities. Delegates to the 2023 ICCGC included youth group members, government officials, religious practitioners, and scholars, among them Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Professor Dr.

New Spring 2024- Anne Frank Traveling Exhibit and Experiential Learning Program

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Jewish Studies and the Department of Religion announce the Spring 2024 launch of the Anne Frank House’s traveling exhibit and experiential learning (EL) program at UGA. This initiative will offer an enriching docent training program that will empower students to engage in public service, community outreach, and DEI education.

Kimberly Davis Discussion of Reading Religion with Graduate Students in Religion

On September 12 at 5:30 in Peabody Hall 201, Kimberly Davis met with Graduate Students in Religion to discuss and demonstrate Reading Religion (RR), an openly accessible book review website published by the American Academy of Religion (AAR). The site provides up-to-date coverage of scholarly publishing in religious studies, reviewed by scholars with special interest and/or expertise in the relevant subfields. Davis will explain the importance of book reviews to the academy and what makes a strong book review.

Kimberly Davis Discussion of Reading Religion with Graduate Students in Religion

Kimberly Davis will discuss and demonstrate Reading Religion (RR), an openly accessible book review website published by the American Academy of Religion (AAR). The site provides up-to-date coverage of scholarly publishing in religious studies, reviewed by scholars with special interest and/or expertise in the relevant subfields. Davis will explain the importance of book reviews to the academy and what makes a strong book review.

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