Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Events
Upcoming Events
January 30th: Religious Studies Brownbag with Carol Griggs, “Centeredness and Wellbeing: Rethinking What Drives Human Flourishing.” Find out more here.
February 27th: Religious Studies Brownbag with Rahul Rastogi, “At an Edgevantage: Listening for Lament from the Edge of Lucknow’s Muharram.”
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.
TBD: Spring Graduation Celebration.
Have an event you’d like us to share? Reach out to Communications Assistant Claire Kilgore (ckilgore@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”
You can find descriptions of past Religious Studies events here.