Rupa Pillai (Penn, Asian American Studies): "More than an Altar: Faith, Culture, and Resilience of Asian/American Business Owners in Philadelphia during COVID-19"
Melissa Sanchez (Penn, English/GSWS/FQTC): Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition
Melissa E. Sanchez
Oct 21, 2021
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Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Melissa E. Sanchez’sQueer Faith reassesses the commonplace view that a modern…
Harun Küçük (Penn, HSS): "Not Caring about Science and Religion"
Harun Küçük
Oct 7, 2021
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What would it mean to talk about science and religion without talking just about people talking about science and religion? This talk will attempt to reach some general conclusions based on a historical…
Niki Kasumi Clements (Rice): “True Confessions: Foucault in the Archives” (On Zoom)
Niki Kasumi Clements
Sep 23, 2021
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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…
James Padilioni (Swarthmore): “Were It Not for the Saints: Black Hagiographic Consciousness, a Celebratory Mode of Social Death”
James Padilioni
Sep 16, 2021
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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…
Joseph Blankholm, University of California-Santa Barbara
Apr 15, 2021
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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”
