Past Events

Graduate students scheduled to present at the annual AAR/SBL meetings will workshop their presentations. 

Speakers:

Kirby Sokolow

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Maia Kotrosits (Denison University) will give a lecture titled “The Really Real: Fantasies of Materiality in the Study of Religion.”

PhD students Hector Kilgoe and Jeremy Steinberg will lead a discussion on "Experiential Learning Online."

Dr. Kathryn Gin Lum (Stanford) will speak on her new book project, "The Heathen World and America's Humanitarian Impulse."

PhD Candidate Paul McBain will defend his dissertation, "A Drunken Bee: Sunthorn Phu and the Buddhist Landscapes of Early Bangkok." An abstract of the dissertation is below; please…

PhD student Abdul Manan Bhat will be participating in a Uyghur and Urdu poetry event hosted by Haverford College. 

The Contest in Context: Uyghur and Urdu Poetry Reading and…

Dr. Lerone Martin (Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis) will deliver a lecture via Zoom titled "The FBI and Christianity Today."

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

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. 

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