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Events 2017-2018

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June 7, 2018
5pm, details TBA

Major/Minor Social with Professor Babak Rahimi
Students will be emailed invitations in May.

MAY 31, 2018
4:00-6:00p
Governance Rm., Price Center East, Lvl 4

Kafka's Judaism
Kathi Diamant, San Diego State University.

Free. No registration.

MAY 29, 2018
11:30a-12:30p
Price Center West, Green Table Rm

Muscular Christianity as Powerlifting and Feats of Strength in Modern Day United States
Kimberly Diaz presents her Honors in Religion thesis

Free. No registration.

MAY 17, 2018
4:00-6:00PM
Social Sciences Bldg., Rm. 103

Race and Infrastructure in Colonial Mexico
Daniel Nemser, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Michigan State University.
John Blanco, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish and Cultural Studies, UC San Diego.

Free. No registration.

MAY 1, 2018
4:00-6:00PM
LIT 355 (Third Floor)

Andrei Tarkovsky's "Nosthalgia"
Film screening. Free. Open to students and faculty. Refreshments will be served.

APR 12, 2018
6:30-8:00PM
Atkinson Hall Theater

Poetics of Spirituality: A Poetic Performance
Erika Brown, Anna Gasaway, Pianta, and Chase Wiswesser. Free. No registration.

APR 12, 2018
4:00-5:30PM
Literature 455

Confessions of the Flesh: A Public Talk on Michel Foucault's Latest Book
Razvan Amironesei, Marcel Henaff. Free. No registration.

MAR 8, 2018
5:00-6:30PM
Literature 155

Conversations with Poet Hiromi Ito

JAN 11, 2018
5:00-7:00PM
Literature 155

After Deportation: The Case of Afghan Deportees
Shahram Khosravi, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University

NOV 16, 2017
2:00-4:00PM
Village 15-A

Shakespeare and Religion
Daniel Vitkus (Literature), Seth Lerer (Literature), Mahmood Karimi-Hakak (Siena College)
NOV 7, 2017
5:30-7:30pm
Atkinson Hall
Ethnopoetics of Shamanism
Marcel de Lima Santos, Professor of Literatures in English, Federal University of Minas Gerais
NOV 2, 2017
2:30-4:30pm
Price Center Forum
Climate Change and Religion
How does religion, in its diverse forms, understand climate change? 
OCT 17, 2017
12:15-6pm
Atkinson Hall
Remembering the Reformation: Local and Global Questions
A day of discussion on how the Reformation changed the world.