Events

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TBD: Faculty-Led Workshop

RELS Colloquium
Jan 30, 2025 at -



Wehshat: Or, the Poetry and Ethics of Living with the Unbearable.

RELS Colloquium
Anand Vivek Taneja (Vanderbilt)
Feb 13, 2025 at -

This talk centers on the social, political, and affective consequences of living with growing Islamophobia for Indian Muslims. In the years after 2014, memories of riots and…



Premeditated Indifference

American Lectures in the History of Religions
Emilie M. Townes, Boston University School of Theology
Feb 19, 2025 at -

The University of Pennsylvania Department of Religious Studies is thrilled to host the first of three Philadelphia-area lectures as part of the American Academy of Religion's prestigious…



TBD: Emerging Scholar Colloquium with Suzanne van Geuns

RELS Colloquium
Suzanne van Geuns (Princeton)
Feb 27, 2025 at -

TBD



The Scopes Trial at 100: Education, Secularism, and Race

2025 Boardman Symposium
Mar 19, 2025 - Mar 20, 2025 at -



"Toward the Human, After Man": A Sylvia Wynter Schematic

RELS Colloquium
Nathan Snaza (Richmond)
Apr 10, 2025 at -

Nathan Snaza of the University of Richmond will give a seminar on the work of Sylvia Wynter.



TBD: Emily Ng

RELS Colloquium
Emily Ng (Penn Anthropology)
Apr 17, 2025 at -