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Thu, 03/16/2023 - 3:50pm
"The Present and the Future in the Present: Religion, Values, and Climate Change," Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Joel Robbins's work focuses on the anthropology of religion and the study of values, ethics, and anthropological theory more broadly. He has for two decades been centrally involved in the development of that anthropological study of Christianity. He is author of the books …
Joel Robbins' Global Georgia Lecture on "The Present and the Future in the Present: Religion, Values, and Climate Change"
Wed, 02/15/2023 - 10:59pm
On Tuesday, February 21 at 4:30 in Peabody Hall 115, Jewish Studies is sponsoring a talk "Education against Auschwitz: The Challenge of Learning about- and from- the Holocaust" by guest speaker Doyle Stevick. Dr. Stevick is the founder and director of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina. After repeatedly encountering violent racist extremism in 1999-2000, Dr. Stevick pursued a doctorate in education to better understand…
Doyle Stevick to speak on "Education against Auschwitz"
Wed, 10/26/2022 - 2:36pm
Prof. Yuval Gadot will deliver this year's Howard Lecture on Monday, Nov 14, 2022, in Peabody Hall 115. New Revelations from Zion: the Archaeology of Jerusalem from the Great Age of Reform In the last 25 years, intensive construction has revolutionized our understanding of Jerusalem’s transition from a royal capital to a metropolis in the kingdom of Judah, mostly around and after the Ten Tribes of Israel were deported. The lecture reviews the…
Yuval Gadot to deliver this year's Howard Lecture: "New Revelations from Zion: the Archaeology of Jerusalem from the Great Age of Reform"
Thu, 02/03/2022 - 8:12pm
Dr. Ann Gleig will be delivering this year's Howard Lecture on Feb 23, 2022 at 3:30 via Zoom. Pre-registration is required. Please register at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cUYNfA1mTYWYO1JhMbFSHA. Undoing Whiteness in American Buddhist Modernism: Critical, Contextual and Collective Turns What is “whiteness” and how has it shaped, functioned and hindered American convert Buddhist modernism? Drawing on ethnography and textual analysis, this…
Ann Gleig to deliver Howard Lecture on "Undoing Whiteness in American Buddhist Modernism"
Fri, 04/23/2021 - 9:42pm
Special Information: Register in advance for this online lecture: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrcu6przsqHdXonXwQy7GqybnaTq3WUBOx ABSTRACT FOR “WONDER, MAGIC, AND WHY WE DO PHILOSOPHY": Several philosophers have regarded wonder as the beginning of philosophy. For example, Aristotle in the Metaphysics speculates that "it is owing to their wonder (to thaumazein) that humans both now begin and at first began to philosophize; they wondered…
Helen De Cruz (Saint Louis University): “Wonder, Magic, and Why We Do Philosophy”
Fri, 03/26/2021 - 1:36pm
Howard Lecture Series in Religion Please RSVP for this Event Here
“Lost in Translation”: Jesus, Slavery, and Freedom
Tue, 09/19/2017 - 12:21pm
Religion Courses, Self-Authorship, and the Pursuit of the Common Good” This workshop begins with a history of American higher education’s view of student ethical development, including the current concern for how students develop a sense of their identity. Of particular interest is the way that students develop an understanding of how they will contribute to the common good in a pluralistic culture. Foster and Patterson explore how exposure to…
Religion and the Common Good Workshop
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