December 5th – Vincent Lloyd Lecture, Beyond Human: Audre Lorde, Spirituality, Judgment

For our second Religion and Politics Series lecture, the Religious Studies Program welcomes Dr. Vincent Lloyd who will speak on “Beyond Human: Audre Lorde, Spirituality, Judgment.” This talk is funded with support from the Anonymous …

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 …

April 4: Fadeke Castor Guest Lecture on Black Feminist Ethnographic Lessons From African Diasporic Religions

The Religious Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is delighted to welcome Dr. N. Fadeke Castor, Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies at Northeastern University to campus. On April 4th, 2024, Dr. Castor …

November 8: “Dramatizing Architectural Space: The Case of a 14th Century Chinese Temple” featuring Wei-Cheng Lin, University of Chicago

Interested in religious architecture? Join the Center for East Asian Studies and the Department of Art History on Wednesday, November 8th at 5:30PM for the lecture “Dramatizing Architectural Space: The Case of a 14th Century …

November 2: Dr. Quincy Newell Lecture: Black and American Indian Mormons and the Scripturalization of Mormon Texts

The Religious Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is excited to announce that Dr. Quincy Newell will be giving the lecture “Black and American Indian Mormons and the Scripturalization of Mormon Texts” on Thursday, …

April 13: “The Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture: Mapping Book Roads under Mongol Rule” with Professor Susan Huang, Rice University

The Art History Department will host Professor Susan Huang, a leading scholar in Daoist and Buddhist studies in China and the silk road, for this year’s Gombar/Duychak Lecture. Dr. Huang will lecture on “The Dynamic …