Events

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The Scopes Trial at 100: Secularism, Race, and Education

2025 Boardman Symposium
Mar 20, 2025 - Mar 21, 2025 at -

Further details and registration for this event are now available here.



Reconfiguration and Revival: Newar Buddhist Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley (and Beyond)

RELS Colloquium
Todd Lewis (Harvard/Holy Cross)
Mar 27, 2025 at -

Most scholars for the past century have assessed the state of Newar Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley as “decadent,” “corrupted by Hinduism,” and predicted its withering away, most…



"Toward the Human, After Man": A Sylvia Wynter Schematic

RELS Colloquium
Nathan Snaza (Richmond)
Apr 10, 2025 at -

This event provides a schematic introduction to the thought of Sylvia Wynter, a Jamaican theorist whose work has become enormously influential in contemporary theories of race,…



Coincidence, Contradiction, Affect: On Spirited Knowing

RELS Colloquium
Emily Ng (Penn Anthropology)
Apr 17, 2025 at -

Emily Ng is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research centers on themes of madness, religiosity, and cosmopolitics, with…



Islam in the Tamil World

Co-sponsored by the South Asia Center, Department of South Asian Studies, and Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Apr 18, 2025 - Apr 19, 2025 (All Day)

This two-day workshop explores the modern textual, visual, material, and somatic traditions of Muslim communities in the Tamil world, a linguistic sphere of shared social, cultural, and intellectual practices…



An Ethics of Completion: Russian Coloniality and Islamic Tradition in Kyrgyzstan

RELS Colloquium
Usmon Boron (Wolf Humanities Center)
Apr 24, 2025 at -

Amid the Soviet assault on Islamic practices and institutions, the Islamic funeral prayer (janaza…