Past Events



Graduate Student Workshop: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: CREATING AN INTRODUCTORY SYLLABUS WITH A NARRATIVE

Dec 5, 2013 at -

Creating a syllabus for an introductory course where there is either no textbook available, or no textbook that meets the needs of the course or institution provides an instructor with a unique set of challenges. How…



Tal Ilan, "The Elijah cave in Haifa: A Late Antique Religious Site of Jews and Pagans"

Nov 21, 2013 at

The Elijah cave is a well-known holy site occupied by Jews in Israel today. But was it always so? A recent study of the cave by scholars and students of the Institut für Judaistik in  the Freie Universität Berlin has…



Jonathan Ben-Dov (Haifa University), “Iconography and Myth: from Nebuchadnezzar to the Fallen Angels”

Nov 19, 2013 at

This lecture -- co-sponsored by Penn's departments of Religious Studies and NELC, and Center for Ancient Studies -- will explore the reinterpretation of the Nebuchadnezzar's monuments from Lebanon as a…



Center for Teaching and Learning Seminar

Oct 24, 2013 at



Prof. Matter and McDaniel on "The Future of the Historical Study of Religion"

Sep 13, 2013 at

RELS profs will serve as respondants to Brad S. Gregory at this event, sponsored by the Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture.



From Dissertation to Book

Apr 18, 2013 at -



TBA

Apr 4, 2013 at -



Reproducing Christianity

Mar 28, 2013 at -