Past Events



Sept. 23 Colloquium

Niki Kasumi Clements (Rice): “True Confessions: Foucault in the Archives” (On Zoom)
Niki Kasumi Clements
Sep 23, 2021 at -

Why was Foucault so interested in Christianity? And why is Foucault’s recently published Confessions of the Flesh (2018/2021) still surprising in its sole emphasis on early Christian texts? How is Foucault’s…



Sept. 16 Colloquium

James Padilioni (Swarthmore): “Were It Not for the Saints: Black Hagiographic Consciousness, a Celebratory Mode of Social Death”
James Padilioni
Sep 16, 2021 at -

While recent Afro-pessimist scholarly discourse has resurrected Orlando Patterson’s heuristic of social death to describe the political ontology of modern Blackness, many of these studies uncritically rely on…



Religious Studies Colloquium: Abdul Manan Bhat, "Prophethood in Poetic Wisdom: Beginnings, Adab and Muhammad Iqbal"

Apr 22, 2021 at -

Religious Studies PhD student Abdul Manan Bhat will present his work "Prophethood in Poetic Wisdom: Beginnings, Adab and Muhammad Iqbal." 



Purity Politics and the Problem of Jewish Solidarity

Shana Sippy, Centre College
Apr 22, 2021 at -

A talk in the "Jews, Race, and Religion" lecture series.



"Demonology and Popular Piety in Second Temple Judaism and Beyond"

Annette Yoshiko Reed, New York University
Apr 15, 2021 at -

A talk in the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins "Popular Piety" Series.



Religious Studies Colloquium: Joseph Blankholm, "Is There a Secular Tradition? How Religious Studies Can Help Us Understand Secular People”

Joseph Blankholm, University of California-Santa Barbara
Apr 15, 2021 at -

Dr. Joseph Blankholm (University of California, Santa Barbara) will join us to speak on his work in progress, "Is There a Secular Tradition? How Religious Studies Can Help Us Understand Secular People”



The Diaspora Within: Mizrahi Jews from Minneapolis to Jerusalem

Claris Harbon, Al Akhawayn University
Apr 15, 2021 at -

A talk in the "Jews, Race, and Religion" lecture series.



Religious Studies Colloquium: Max Johnson Dugan on Religious Studies and Digital Humanities

Max Johnson Dugan, University of Pennsylvania
Apr 8, 2021 at -

PhD Candidate Max Johnson Dugan will give a presentation on using digital humanities methods in religious studies. 



Funny—You Don’t Look Jewish!

Helen Kim, Whitman College, & Noah Leavitt, Whitman College
Apr 8, 2021 at -

A talk in the "Jews, Race, and Religion" lecture series.



Book Launch: Anthea Butler, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania) with AAR President Marla Frederick (Emory University) responding
Apr 1, 2021 at -

A celebration of Dr. Anthea Butler's book White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America