Past Events



Dr. Kathryn Gin Lum, "The Heathen World and America's Humanitarian Impulse"

Oct 1, 2020 at -

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



Dissertation Defense: Paul McBain, "A Drunken Bee: Sunthorn Phu and the Buddhist Landscapes of Early Bangkok."

Sep 25, 2020 at -

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…



The Contest in Context: Uyghur and Urdu Poetry Reading and Discussion featuring PhD Student Abdul Manan Bhat

Sep 24, 2020 at -

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: The FBI and Christianity Today

Sep 17, 2020 at -

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

 



Pedagogy Colloquium: Accessibility in the Online Classroom

Sep 10, 2020 at -

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



Dissertation Defense: Jillian Stinchcomb

Aug 17, 2020 at -

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. 



Dissertation Defense: Chijioke Azuawusiefe, "Nollywood and Popular Religion"

Productions of Prosperity, Gender, and the Supernatural in Nigerian Cinema
Jul 16, 2020 at -

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



Material Secularisms

A Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania
Feb 27, 2020 - Feb 29, 2020 at -

The classic secularization narrative of the mid-20th century envisioned a progressive decline of religion as part of the advance of modernity. Charles Taylor has referred to this as the “subtraction story,” in which…



The Evangelical Bible

Constructing Authority and (Re)Writing History in the Nation's Capital
Jill Hicks-Keeton (University of Oklahoma)
Feb 20, 2020 at -

Jill Hicks-Keeton (Phd, Duke University) is the author of Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2018) and numerous academic articles. She…



The History of Emotions and Medieval Arabic Pietistic Literature

Nancy Khalek (Brown University)
Feb 6, 2020 at -