Past Events



Pedagogy Colloquium: Accessibility in the Online Classroom

Sep 10, 2020 at -

PhD students Kirby Sokolow and Angela Xia will lead a discussion titled "Accessibility in the Online Classroom."



Dissertation Defense: Jillian Stinchcomb

Aug 17, 2020 at -

PhD candidate Jillian Stinchcomb will defend her doctoral dissertation, "Remembering the Queen of Sheba in the First Millennium," on Monday, August 17th, at 10:00 a.m. 



Dissertation Defense: Chijioke Azuawusiefe, "Nollywood and Popular Religion"

Productions of Prosperity, Gender, and the Supernatural in Nigerian Cinema
Jul 16, 2020 at -

PhD Candidate Chijioke Azuawusiefe will defend his dissertation, "Nollywood and Popular Religion: Productions of Prosperity, Gender, and the Supernatural in Nigerian Cinema…



Material Secularisms

A Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania
Feb 27, 2020 - Feb 29, 2020 at -

The classic secularization narrative of the mid-20th century envisioned a progressive decline of religion as part of the advance of modernity. Charles Taylor has referred to this as the “subtraction story,” in which…



The Evangelical Bible

Constructing Authority and (Re)Writing History in the Nation's Capital
Jill Hicks-Keeton (University of Oklahoma)
Feb 20, 2020 at -

Jill Hicks-Keeton (Phd, Duke University) is the author of Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2018) and numerous academic articles. She…



The History of Emotions and Medieval Arabic Pietistic Literature

Nancy Khalek (Brown University)
Feb 6, 2020 at -



Soul Science

Parapsychology in India, ca. 1952–1977
Projit Mukharji (Penn)
Nov 14, 2019 at -



Toward a Pacific Era

Peace and Empire in the Pan-Pacific Buddhists' Associations Conferences of the 1930s
Justin B. Stein (Bukkyō University)
Nov 7, 2019 at -

In recent years, research into the links between Japanese Buddhism and Japanese colonialism has become a distinct subfield. At the same time, Japanese American studies has begun to look at Japanese migration to the U…



Forging the Ideal Educated Girl

The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia
Shenila Khoja-Moolji (Bowdoin College)
Oct 24, 2019 at -



Medicalizing Salvation

Pathography and Drug Lore in Early Christian Ritual
John Penniman (Bucknell University)
Oct 17, 2019 at -