Join Religious Studies for our November Brownbag featuring Professor Tom DuBois (GNS+ and Religious Studies Affiliate). He will discuss The Agency of Place: Helgafell and 13th-century Icelandic Monastics. This event will take place in Room …
Year: 2024
Join RS for Coffee and Donuts! – New Date TBD
Update posted on September 22nd: Due to illness and rising Covid cases in the community, the Religious Studies Program is postponing the Coffee and Donuts Event. A rescheduled date and time will be announced soon! …
October 18: Brownbag featuring Zara Chowdhary, author of The Lucky Ones
For our October 2024 Brownbag event, Religious Studies is excited to welcome Zara Chowdhary to read from and discuss her recently published memoir The Lucky Ones. Open to all! Date: Friday, October 18th Time: 12:15PM …
October 10: Dana Lloyd, “Land as Kin: Religious Freedom and Indigenous Sovereignty in Yurok Country”
The Religious Studies Program is excited to welcome Dana Lloyd, Assistant Professor in Villanova University’s Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies, as our first speaker in a lecture series on Religion and Politics! Talk: “Land as …
Mark your calendars for speaker series on Religion and Politics!
The Religious Studies Program is excited to announce a speaker series on Religion and Politics for the 2024 – 2025 academic year. All events will take place on Thursdays, at 4pm in Van Hise Hall, …
September 9: Ethnic Studies Mixer
Stop by Memorial Union on September 9th between 1 and 3pm to meet faculty and students, grab coffee and a snack, and learn more about Ethnic Studies opportunities and courses, including those offered in Religious …
September 20th Brownbag: Michael Velliquette: Studio Tour
Please join the Religious Studies Program for our first brownbag of the Fall 2024 Semester! Michael Velliquette (Assistant Professor of Art and affiliate in Religious Studies) is a paper-based artist whose work explores themes of …
Summer Field Note – Alex Pickett (Certificate ’05) publishes 2nd book!
Religious Studies alum Alex Pickett (Certificate, ’05) recently published his second book of fiction, a short story collection titled “Camera Lake” with UW Press. His first book, a novel The Restaurant Inspector, was also published …
Axell Boomer, RS Undergraduate, wins national Beinecke Award!
Axell Boomer recently received a nationally competitive Beinecke Award for future graduate study, one of twenty awardees nationwide. The Beinecke Scholarship Program provides $35,000 to students of exceptional promise for graduate study in the arts, …
Katrina Daly Thompson receives Library of Congress Research Residency!
Congratulations to Professor Katrina Daly Thompson for receiving a short term summer research residency to use the Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED) collections! Their residency is part of a larger project …