Past Events



"May Your Fasting Be Armor to Our Country": Soldiers, Paramilitary Action, and Religion in Late Antiquity

RELS Colloquium/PSCO
Reyhan Durmaz (Penn)
Sep 26, 2024 at -

RELS faculty Prof. Reyhan Durmaz will lead a co-hosted event with RELS and the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins..

Dinner will be served at 5:30 pm at Claudia Cohen…



Emotions that Matter: Anguish, Anger, and Affect in Early Imperial Spanish Spirituality

RELS Distinguished Alum Colloquium
Jes Boon (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Sep 19, 2024 at -

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Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire

RELS Colloquium
SherAli Tareen (Franklin & Marshall)
Sep 12, 2024 at -

Perilous Intimacies explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers…



Benedetta

Gender, Sexuality, and Religion Film Series
Aug 30, 2024 at -

Professor Robb is holding a weekly film series featuring controversial films on gender, sexuality and religion, beginning with the film Benedetta about a nun experiencing disturbing religious and erotic…



Graduate Group Welcome Reception

Aug 29, 2024 at -

Please join graduate students and Graduate Group faculty in the Cohen Hall Lounge for a welcome reception marking the start of the new year. 



Religious Studies End of Year Celebration

May 2, 2024 at -

The Department of Religious Studies will hold an end of year celebration to acknowledge the accomplishments of students and faculty on Thursday, May 2 at 5:15 PM in Fireside Lounge, ARCH Building. 

Please…



Burmese Buddhist Exceptionalism and the Violence of Religious Tolerance

CEAS/TRAP Faculty Working Group Public Lecture
Alicia Turner, York University
Apr 25, 2024 at -

Early European accounts of Burma expressed shock at the presence of what they understood to be liberal modern values imbedded in what would soon be a British colony in Southeast Asia. Burma was, to them, an exception…



Abducting Religion: Rape and the Colonial Creation of Buddhist Sexuality in Burma

RELS Colloquium/TRAP Faculty Working Group Works-in-Progress Session
Alicia Turner, York University
Apr 25, 2024 at -

Abstract coming soon...



Teaching Polarizing Topics: CETLI Teaching Workshop

Anthea Butler, Religious Studies
Apr 18, 2024 at -

Students have social and political concerns that can enter into the classroom depending on the topic. How do we teach topics like religion, race, and gender during politically charged times? How can we facilitate…



Barbara Ambros, Feeling Cross-species Kinship in Edo-Period Morality Books: Excessive Affect and the Ethic of Refraining from Killing and Releasing Life

RELS Colloquium/E. Dale Saunders Buddhist Studies/TRAP FWG 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…