Past Events



RELS colloquium with Tariq al-Jamil (Swarthmore), “Buy, Rent or Lease It: The Economy of Marriage, Slavery, and Divorce in Islamic Law"

Nov 5, 2015 at

The historical development and application of Islamic law and legal theory concerning slavery pervades the legacy of Islamic marriage contracts and divorce in Shīʿī and Sunnī jurisprudence.…



No RELS colloquium [faculty meeting]

Oct 29, 2015 at



RELS colloquium with Mira Wasserman (RRC), "From Idolatry to the New Materialisms: Reading the Talmud in a Posthumanist Age"

Oct 22, 2015 at -

Prof. Wasserman will lead us through readings of three narratives from the Babylonian Talmud's Tractate Avoda Zara, the section of the rabbinic corpus that treats interactions between Jews and non-Jews. Moving…



RELS colloquium: Jamal Elias on the Writing Process [professionalization session]

Oct 15, 2015 at -



No RELS colloquium [FALL BREAK!]

Oct 8, 2015 at



PSCO: Aaron Butts (Catholic University) and Simcha Gross (Yale), “Judaism and Syriac Christianity”

Oct 1, 2015 at -



No RELS colloquium [faculty meeting]

Oct 1, 2015 at



RELS colloquium - Reading session in preparation for “The Language of the Past and the Future of Ancient Studies”

Sep 24, 2015 at -

This RELS colloquium will be a special student-lead—and student-only!—Reading Discussion centering on the themes of the upcoming Center for…



RELS colloquium with Angela Locatelli (U.Bergamo), "Emotions and/in Religion"

Sep 17, 2015 at

ABSTRACT - This talk situates the exploration and discussion of religious emotions in the context of recent findings on emotions in general. Philosophy and the cognitive sciences (Robert C. Solomon,  Martha Nussbaum…



RELS colloquium with Joloyn Thomas, "The Buddhist Virtues of Raging Lust and Crass Materialism in Contemporary Japan"

Sep 10, 2015 at

The Buddhist Virtues of Raging Lust and Crass Materialism in Contemporary Japan