Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Events
Upcoming Events
April 14th & 15th: Save the Date for our annual fundraiser on Day of the Badger! Looking to set up a Match or Challenge Gift opportunity? Reach out to our director, Prof. Jordan Rosenblum via email at jrosenblum@wisc.edu.
April 24, 12pm: Religious Studies Brownbag with Dr. Maya Soifer Irish, “The Politics of Antisemitism in Medieval Castile before the Anti-Jewish Riots of 1391.” Find out more here.
Until May 6, by appointment: Bielo Exhibit “Volatile Presence: the Secondhand Materialities of Christian Nationalism.” Find out more here.
May 7, Save the Date: Spring Graduation Celebration. Details coming soon.
Have an event you’d like us to share? Reach out to Communications Assistant raenelda rivera (rrivera8@wisc.edu) with more information!
Past Events
September 26th: Religious Studies Brownbag #1 with Professor Karen Britland, “Women’s piety and coded writing: the case of Anne Halkett (c. 1623-1699)”
October 9th & 10th: Support Religious Studies during Fill the Hill!
October 16th, 11am and 2:15pm: Folklore Program events featuring Joseph Sciora (co-sponsored by Religious Studies). 11am-12noon: “Visualizing Intimacies and Emerging Identities: Photographs of Italian Migrant Home Visits” and 2:25-3:15pm: “Immigrants around the Sacred Table: Charity, Consumerism, and St. Joseph Altars as Contact Zones in Queens, New York.”
October 16th, 4pm: Religion and Politics Speaker Series #5, Charles McCrary Lecture: “Against the Christian Nationalism Industry.” Find out more at the link.
October 24th: Religious Studies Brownbag #2, Chase Castle (Robert M. Kingdon Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities), “Always Awakened: Gospel Hymns and the Spectacle of American Revivalism, 1875-1900.”
November 3rd: Dr. Kimberly Wortmann lecture, “Religion, Heritage, and Identity in Tanzania’s Omani-Ibadi Community, co-sponsored by Religious Studies.
November 7th: Religious Studies Brownbag #3, Jennifer Pruitt, “Inheriting Islamic Art History: I.M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art, Doha”
January 30th: Religious Studies Brownbag with Carol Griggs, “Centeredness and Wellbeing: Rethinking What Drives Human Flourishing.” Find out more here.
February 17th: in conjunction with the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, Gregg E. Gardner, “Lighting the Way: Judaism and Light Through the Ages.” Find out more here.
February 27th, 12pm: Religious Studies Brownbag with Rahul Rastogi, “At an Edgevantage: Listening for Lament from the Edge of Lucknow’s Muharram.”
March 18th, 12:30-2:30pm: in conjunction with the Material Cultures Workshop and the Anonymous Fund, James S. Bielo, “Volatile Presence: The Secondhand Materialities of Christian Nationalism.” RSVP required. Find out more here.
March 27th, 12pm: Religious Studies Brownbag with Claire Kilgore, “Advertising Ritual at Mariazell: Finding Lived Religion at an Early Sixteenth Century Austrian Pilgrimage Shrine.” Find out more here.
You can find descriptions of past Religious Studies events here.