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 …
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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 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 …
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 …
Congratulations 2023 – 2024 Graduates!
Congratulations to Religious Studies students graduating with the Religious Studies Major: Canaan Bracey, Hailey Kuhn, Lilah Pearson, John Ramthun, Mercedes Richards, Zoe Scrivener, Emily Rebella and Taylor Suterko and with the Religious Studies Certificate: Libby …
April 26: Jamal Jones and “Beauty, goodness, and the making of the ‘first poem’ in classical India”
Please join the Religious Studies Program for our 2024 April Research Brown Bag on Friday, April 26th at 12:15pm! We’ll hear from Professor Jamal Jones with his talk “Beauty, goodness, and the making of the …
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 …
March 22: Professor Susan Ridgely Talk on “Southern, Catholic, Universal: The Creation of a Biracial Parish in Rural North Carolina 1870-1904”
Please join the Religious Studies Program for our 2024 March Research Brown Bag on Friday, March 22nd at 12:15pm! We’ll hear from Professor Susan Ridgely with her talk “Southern, Catholic, Universal: The Creation of a …