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Vaughn Booker, Title TBA

RELS Colloquium
Vaughn Booker (Africana Studies, Penn)
Jan 25, 2024 at -

Vaughn A. Booker is the George E. Doty, Jr. and Lee Spelman Doty Presidential Associate Professor of Africana Studies. He comes to Penn from Dartmouth College, where he was Associate Professor of…



Laura Nasrallah, Title TBA

RELS Colloquium
Laura Nasrallah, Yale Divinity School
Feb 1, 2024 at -

Laura Nasrallah’s research and teaching bring together New Testament and early Christian literature with the archaeological remains of the Mediterranean world, and often engage issues of colonialism…



Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality

RELS Colloquium/Global Islamic Studies Lecture
Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Georgetown University
Feb 15, 2024 at -

Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji…



A Queen in the Tomb of the Kings: An Ancient Monument and its Modern Legacy

RELS Colloquium
Sarit Kattan Gribetz (Fordham University)
Feb 22, 2024 at -

According to the first-century Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, Queen Helena of Adiabene traveled from her kingdom in northern Mesopotamia to Jerusalem to worship the Jewish God in the temple. She ended up…



Teaching Religion in the Premodern World

CTL Teaching Workshop
Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania)
Mar 14, 2024 at -

Recent scholarship has demonstrated that “religion” as we know it today is a post-Enlightenment concept. But this fact has not changed common discourse that assumes the universality of religion, nor has it stopped…



What Not to Do: Anti-Lessons for Ethnographic Fieldwork

RELS Colloquium/TRAP Faculty Working Group Ethnography Workshop
Sara Swenson, Dartmouth College
Mar 21, 2024 at -

This special event will feature an ethnography of religion workshop during our normal colloquium time (3:30–5:00 PM), followed by a public lecture featuring Dr. Swenson's research. 

What Not to Do:…



An Uncouth Monk: The Moral Aesthetics of Buddhist Para-Charisma

CEAS/RELS/TRAP Faculty Working Group Joint Lecture on Southeast Asian Religions
Sara A. Swenson, Dartmouth College
Mar 21, 2024 at -

In this talk, I propose a theory of Buddhist “para-charisma” by analyzing the case of an iconoclastic monk in Vietnam. My argument draws from twenty…



Works in Progress with Barbara Ambros

TRAP Faculty Working Group Workshop
Barbara Ambros, UNC-Chapel Hill
Apr 11, 2024 at -

Join us for a works-in-progress lunchtime workshop with Barbara Ambros sponsored by the "Religions of Asia Project" Faculty Working Group. Preregistration is required for an accurate head count for lunch.…



Barbara Ambros, Title TBA

RELS Colloquium/TRAP Faculty Working Group Lecture
Barbara Ambros, UNC-Chapel Hill
Apr 11, 2024 at -

Barbara Rossetti Ambros is a professor in East Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at…



Works-in-Progress with Alicia Turner

TRAP Faculty Working Group Workshop
Alicia Turner, York University
Apr 25, 2024 at -

Join us for a works-in-progress lunch with Alicia Turner to discuss her current book project. Preregistration is required for an accurate head count for lunch. Registration will open in Spring 2024.