Department of Religious Studies
Events
Events Archive
April 8, 2009
Religion and Civil Society Actors in International Development: A Report on the Early Stages of a Project on Religion, Political Voice, and Accountability
Paul J. Nelson, Associate Professor of International Development, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
March 30, 2009
Justice and Taxation in Late Daoist China
Vincent Goossaert, Senior Researcher in Chinese Religion, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
4-5:30 p.m., 4130 Posvar Hall
Cosponsored with the Asian Studies Center and China Council of the University Center for International Studies and History Department of the University of Pittsburgh, and Modern Languages Department of Carnegie Mellon University
March 18, 2009
"And we got to get ourselves back to the garden”
(Woodstock—Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young)
Rebecca Denova, Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
February 11, 2009
Religion and Politics in China: Evidence from Survey Data
Wenfang Tang, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
January 21, 2009
Violent and Non-violent Ends of the Sanskrit Epic, A Dialogical Reading
Tamar Reich, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
November 12, 2008
The Apocalyptic Genre Considered by the Light of Ricoeur's Hermeneutics
Peter de Vries, Cooperative Doctoral Program in Religion, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
October 29, 2008
The Hermeneutic Revolution in Contemporary Islam
Mohammed Bamyeh, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
October 28, 2008
Atonement and Denial: The German Christian Churches in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Christian Staffa, Theologian and Director of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace
Moderator: William Carl III, President, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Discussants: Sister Gemma del Duca, National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, Seton Hill University; Rabbi James Gibson, Temple Sinai; John Wilson, Professor of Church History, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
7:30 p.m., Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Auditorium, 616 North Highland Avenue
Cosponsored with the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Holocaust Center of Greater Pittsburgh
October 28, 2008
Sixty-five Years Later: Teaching the Holocaust in Germany Today
Elke Gryglewski, Senior Educator, House of Wannsee Conference Memorial and Educational Centre, Berlin, Germany
2-4 p.m., Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union
Cosponsored with the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, School of Education and Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Holocaust Center of Greater Pittsburgh
October 27, 2008
What is the "European Genizah"? A Survey of Hebrew Manuscript Discoveries in Italy and Spain and their Importance for Jewish Studies
Mauro Perani, Professor of Hebrew and Hebrew Codicology and Palaeography, University of Bologna, and Department of Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Ravenna Campus
4 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning
Cosponsored by the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Jewish Studies Program, and Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures
October 23, 2008
Jewish Art: Yes, but is it Kosher? The Collision between Artist Materials and the Rules of Kashrut
Ben Schachter, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Saint Vincent College
7:30 p.m., 1640 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Cosponsored by the Israeli Heritage Classroom Committee and the Jewish Studies Program
October 9, 2008
Quid is Veritas? Trying to Disentangle the Real from the Mythical Pilate
Colum Hourihane, Director, Index of Christian Art, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
3:30 p.m., 203 Frick Fine Arts
Sponsored by the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies with support from the departments of Religious Studies and History of Art and Architecture
September 17, 2008
Hannah Arendt on the Miracle of Losing and Retrieving Conscience
Alon Segev, Max Plank Fellow, University of Heidelberg
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
Cosponsored with the Jewish Studies Program
April 16, 2008
German or Jewish: The German Scholars in Turkey, 1933-1950
Izzet Bahar, Cooperative Doctoral Program in Religion, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
April 9, 2008
The Performative Politics of Gender and Political Violence: Women of "Shivaji's Army" in Maharashtra, India
Tarini Bedi, Research Associate, Center for Research on Women and Gender/Center of Excellence in Women's Health, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
April 2, 2008
Assisting Belief: Ritual and the Spectator
Dennis Kennedy, Beckett Professor of Drama Emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin
5 p.m., 142 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by the Program in Cultural Studies with the departments of Religious Studies and Theater Arts
March 30-31, 2008
Discourses of "Jewishness": A Symposium on Jewish Identity and Representation
Organized by Alexander Orbach and convened by the Jewish Studies Program
Supported by the School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research and Scholarship Program of the University of Pittsburgh, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian and East European Studies, European Union Center of Excellence and European Studies Center of the University Center for International Studies, and departments of French and Italian and Religious Studies. With additional support from the United Jewish Federation and the Samuel, Fannie and Irwin A Solow Memorial Endowment of the UJF Foundation.
Do You Consider Yourself a Jewish Writer?
Dara Horn, award-winning novelist of In the Image and The World to Come
7:30 p.m., 1502 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Keynote Address for the Symposium on Discourses of "Jewishness"
Supported by the Office of the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pittsburgh in association with the Giant Eagle Foundation and Jewish University Center of the University of Pittsburgh
March 27, 2008
Was Jesus' Foster-Father a Martyr? Constructing the Death of Joseph the Carpenter
Pamela Sheingorn, Professor Emerita of History, City University of New York
4 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies with support from the Department of Religious Studies
March 19, 2008
From Deference to Democracy: Catholics Transform their Faith in the Mid-20th Century
Timothy Kelly, Associate Professor of History, St. Vincent College
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
March 5, 2008
New Trends in Buddhism in Modern China
WEI Dedong, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Renmin University of China, and Visiting Scholar, Baylor University
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Cosponsored by the Asian Studies Center and China Council of the University Center for International Studies, Program in Cultural Studies, and departments of Anthropology, History and Sociology
February 29, 2008
Jewish Eyes, 1140-1180
Sara Lipton, Associate Professor of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
4 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies with support from the Department of Religious Studies
February 13, 2008
A Comparison of Shi'i and Sunni Approaches to Religious Authority in Contemporary Islam
Haider Ala Hamoudi, Associate Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
January 16 , 2008
Banker by Day, Theologian by Night: A Study of Conversion Motives among American Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy
Amy Slagle, Cooperative Doctoral Program in Religion, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
November 15, 2007
The Worship of Celestial Bodies in Japan: Politics, Rituals, and Icons
Lucia Dolce, Senior Lecturer of Japanese Religion, Department of the Study of Religion, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
1-2:15 p.m., 104 David Lawrence Hall
Cosponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh
November 13, 2007
Ritualizing Duality: Secret Iconographies of Empowerment in Medieval Japan
Lucia Dolce, Senior Lecturer of Japanese Religion, Department of the Study of Religion, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
4:15 p.m., 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, with reception to follow
Cosponsored by the Asian Studies Center and Japan Council of the University Center for International Studies and the Program in Cultural Studies. Funding also provided by the Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi Endowments.
November 7, 2007
Contesting Sacred Space in China's Ethnic Borderlands: Ritual and Myth at Huanglong, Northern Sichuan
Donald S. Sutton, Professor of History and Anthropology, Carnegie Mellon University
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
October 15, 2007
Why Do They Hate Us? A Muslim Perspective on Islam and Violence
Abdul Mawgoud Dardery, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Critical Discourse, South Valley University, Luxor, Egypt
3 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning
Cosponsored by the University Honors College, Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies of the University Center for International Studies, and the departments of English, History and Political Science
October 10, 2007
The Response of the U.S. Catholic Church to United States Policy in Central America, 1950-1990
Edward Brett, Professor of History, La Roche College
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
September 19, 2007
Religious Continuity and Change: Research Opportunities in Egyptian Case Studies (Or, How I Spent My Summer Vacation)
Rebecca Denova, Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
April 26, 2007
Discovering History from the Field: A Knowledge Archaeology on Folk Literature, Legends and Tales
ZHAO Shiyu, Professor of History, Beijing Normal University
2 p.m., 4217 Posvar Hall
Cosponsored with the Asian Studies Center of the University Center for International Studies and departments of Modern Languages and History of Carnegie Mellon University
April 18, 2007
Current Trends in Buddhism in China: Church-State-Academy Relations
XUAN Fang, Associate Professor of Buddhism, Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Religious Theory, Renmin University of China, and Visiting Fellow, Yenching Institute, Harvard University
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Cosponsored by the Asian Studies Center of the University Center for International Studies and University Honors College
April 11, 2007
Islamic Cosmopolitanism: Hakim Mohammed Said and the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine
Joseph S. Alter, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
April 6, 2007
Thinking "Inside" the Box: Tombs, Ossuaries, Inscriptions, and the "Family" of Jesus
Rebecca Denova, Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
2 p.m., Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union
Cosponsored with the University Honors College
March 30, 2007
The Lost Gospel of Judas (and other Gnostic Gospels)
Bart Ehrman, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Noon, Dining Room A, William Pitt Union
Cosponsored by the University Honors College
March 28, 2007
On Doing Fieldwork in China
A Conversation with Edward A. Burger, Director of Amongst White Clouds
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
March 27, 2007
Amongst White Clouds
Special Screening and Meet the Director, Edward A. Burger
A contemporary journey into the hidden lives of the forgotten Buddhist hermit tradition in the Zhongnan Mountains of central China
4 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Cosponsored by the Asian Studies Center and the China Council of the University Center for International Studies, Office of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, and Programs in Cultural and Film Studies
March 27, 2007
The Buddhist Hermit Tradition in China Today
Edward A. Burger, Director of Amongst White Clouds
1 p.m., 426 Benedum Hall
March 14, 2007
Tolerance as Hospitality: Pierre Bayle’s Commentaire Philosophique
Lucien Nouis, Assistant Professor of French, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
February 28, 2007
Dangerous Religion? Cultural Constructions of Religion in Post-Aum Japan and their Wider Implications
Ian Reader, Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Japan Centre, Manchester University (UK)
4 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square
Cosponsored by the Asian Studies Center and Japan Council of the University Center for International Studies. Funding provided by the Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi Endowments and Office of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences.
February 28, 2007
Ethnography and Japanese Pilgrimage: The Case of the Shikoku Pilgrimage Route
A Conversation with Ian Reader, Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Japan Centre, Manchester University (UK)
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
February 27, 2007
Aum: A Case Study in Religious Violence
Ian Reader, Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Japan Centre, Manchester University (UK)
1 p.m., 426 Benedum Hall
February 5, 2007
Black-Jewish Relations
A Conversation with Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, Raether Distinguished Professor of History, Trinity College
3 p.m., 2628 Cathedral of Learning
February 5, 2007
The Politics of Black-Jewish Relations and Why it Matters
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, Raether Distinguished Professor of History, Trinity College
Noon, 5130 Posvar Hall
Cosponsored with the Program in Jewish Studies
January 26, 2007
New Directions in Renaissance Studies
Carlo Ginzburg, Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
2 p.m., 2628 Cathedral of Learning
January 17, 2007
Two Temples, Three Religions, and a Tourist Attraction: Contesting the Sacred Space in China's Ethnic Borderland
Xiaofei Kang, Assistant Professor of Chinese, Carnegie Mellon University
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
December 7, 2006
Religion's Roots and Tangled Branches, or Fighting the War on Terror with Authentic Fakes
Russell T. McCutcheon, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Alabama
4 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square
With support from the departments of Anthropology, English, History, History of Art & Architecture, Political Science and Sociology, Program in Cultural Studies, and University Honors College
December 6, 2006
On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion
Russell T. McCutcheon, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Alabama
2 p.m., 4500 Posvar Hall
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
December 4, 2006
Islam in the West: Conflict or Dialogue
Moshe Ma'oz, Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University (Jerusalem), and Visiting Professor of Communications and Information Systems, Robert Morris University
4 p.m., 115 Mervis Hall
Cosponsored with the Program in Jewish Studies. With support from the Global Studies Program and Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies of the University Center for International Studies.
November 15, 2006
Burkas and Babushkas: The Veiling of Women in Christianity and Islam
Rebecca Denova, Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies, and M. Pinar Emiralioglu, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, Lower Lounge, William Pitt Union
Cosponsored with the University Honors College
November 8, 2006
Censorship and Civic Order in Reformation Germany
Allyson Creasman, Assistant Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
October 18, 2006
"Wars with the Lord?" Marketing Gersonides in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Adam Shear, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
September 20, 2006
Gambaga: A Witch Sanctuary in the North of Ghana
David Brumble, Professor of English and Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
April 11, 2006
What Have We "Discovered" in the Lost Gospels?
Rebecca Denova, Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union
Four-part series on Lost Christianities, Lost Gospels, cosponsored with the University Honors College
March 31-April 2, 2006
Convened and organized by Linda Penkower, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Co-organized by Jason Fuller, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Depauw University.
Full conference program and abstracts
Cosponsored by the Office of the Provost and School of Arts and Sciences and the Asian Studies Center and Indo-Pacific Council of the University Center for International Studies. Additional support provided by the Department of Anthropology, Program in Cultural Studies, and University Honors College.
March 31, 2006
Shooting Rites
Ronald L. Grimes, Professor of Religion and Culture Wilfrid Laurier University, and Holder of the Chair of Ritual Studies at the Institute of Religious Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
4 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Keynote Address for the Conference on Ritualizing In, On and Across the Boundaries of the Indian Subcontinent
March 21, 2006
The Battle for Orthodoxy
Rebecca Denova, Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union
Four-part series on Lost Christianities, Lost Gospels, cosponsored with the University Honors College
February 28, 2006
The Tel Zayit Inscription: An Archaeological Benchmark in the History of Writing
Ron L. Tappy, G. Albert Shoemaker Professor of Bible and Archaeology and Director of the James L. Kelso Bible Lands Museum, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and Project Director and Principal Investigator of the Zeitah Excavations
4 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
With support from the University Honors College
February 27, 2006
Inheritors of the Israelite Traditions: Sacred Geography and Idumean Self-Identity
Kevin Osterloh, Department of Religion, Princeton University
2 p.m., 139 Cathedral of Learning
February 23, 2006
Canaanite and Mesopotamian Influences on the Aramaic Legal Tradition
Andrew Gross, Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
2 p.m., 139 Cathedral of Learning
February 14, 2006
Who were the Gnostics?
Rebecca Denova, Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union
Four-part series on Lost Christianities, Lost Gospels, cosponsored with the University Honors College
January 30, 2006
Regulating Religious Secrets: Covert Japanese Buddhists and the Consequences of Concealment
Clark Chilson, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Pacific Lutheran University
2 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning
January 27, 2006
The Death of Buddhism: Locating the Dead in Contemporary Japan
Mark Rowe, Department of Religion, Princeton University
2 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning
January 26, 2006
Lost Christianities, Lost Gospels
Rebecca Denova, Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union
Four-part series on Lost Christianities, Lost Gospels, cosponsored with the University Honors College
January 20, 2006
Magic, Discipline, and Ideology: The Shingon Ritsu School and the Study of Kamakura-Period Buddhism
David Quinter, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
2 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning
December 2, 2005
Searching for a Needle in a Haystack: The Evidence for Jewish Persecution against Christians in the First Century
Rebecca Denova, Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
November 18, 2005
Idolatry and Theater after the English Reformation
Jennifer Waldron, Assistant Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
October 28, 2005
Mircea Elide, the History of Religions, and the "Provincialization" of Europe
Irina Livezeanu, Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
September 30, 2005
Missionaries, Diplomats, Soldiers, and Peasants: Modern China in Religious and Government Archives
Rob Carbonneau, CP, Director of Passionist Historical Archives
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
April 15, 2005
Why Does Shiva Look Like the King? Reflections on the Nature of Royalty and Divinity in Cambodia
Eleanor Mannikka, Department of Art, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
April 8, 2005
The Unintended Anti-Semite
Amy Jill Levine, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies and Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality, Vanderbilt University
1 p.m., Lower Lounge, William Pitt Union
Cosponsored with the Program in Jewish Studies and University Honors College
April 1, 2005
Doubly Neglected: Women Monastics in Orthodox Christianity
Milica Bakić-Hayden, Instructor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
March 18, 2005
Jewish Statehood, the Cold War, and Jewish Loyalties: Ilya Ehrenburg and Alfred Lilienthal
Alexander Orbach, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
February 24, 2005
Medicine and Exorcism in Heian Buddhism
Michael Como, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, College of William and Mary
1:30 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning
February 21, 2005
Can a Princess be a Nun? The Buddhist Practice of Elite Women in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Gina Cogan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbanks Center, Harvard University
1:30 p.m., 144 Cathedral of Learning
February 11, 2005
Queer Eye for the Jewish and Christian Guy
David Brodsky, Perlow Lecturer of Classical Judaism and Rebecca Denova, Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, University Honors College, Cathedral of Learning
Cosponsored with the University Honors College
February 7, 2005
Cosmology Today: Authority, Representation, and the Place of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal
Gregory Grieve, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1:30 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning
February 4, 2005
Wallace Stevens' "The Comedian as the Letter C" and the 100th Psalm
Richard Tobias, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
January 21, 2005
Afro-Caribbean Missionaries in the Salvation Army, ca. 1900-1940
Lara Putnam, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
December 10, 2004
Dimensions of Contemporary Chinese Buddhism
Stuart Chandler, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
November 12, 2004
The Impacts of Christianity on Patterns of Community Formation in European History
Katherine Lynch, Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
November 2, 2004
Othering the Other: Polemic Images of Christianity and Islam in Medieval Kabbalah
Elliot Wolfson, Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
4 p.m., Dining Room A, William Pitt Union
Cosponsored with the Program in Jewish Studies
October 29, 2004
God and Ockham's Razor: The Redundancy Argument against the Existence of God
Tony Edwards, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
October 15, 2004
Orality in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Angela Kim-Harkins, Assistant Professor of Theology, Duquesne University
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
September 10, 2004
Robert K. Merton and the Politics of Jewish Assimilation in Mid-20th-Century America: A Study in Intellectual History
Peter Simonson, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
April 16, 2004
Hunting for the Virgin: Meat, Money, and Memory in Tetiz, Yucatán
Paul Eiss, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
March 26, 2004
On Hermeneutics and Polemics: The Debate over Stone and Vegetal Buddhas
Linda Penkower, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
February 13, 2004
Archive as a Sufi Genre? The Mecmua of Mulla Mustafa Basheski from Sarajevo
Snjezana Buzov, Visiting Lecturer of History, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
January 23, 2004
Sexuality and Spirituality in Medieval Christianity: Methodological Considerations
Bruce Venarde, Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
December 5, 2003
Ulysses as Musketeer: Reflections on Metaphor and the Reconfigured Self in Eastern Orthodox Conversion Narratives
Amy Slagle, Cooperative Doctoral Program in Religion, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
November 14, 2003
Paul and the Law: Applying Principles of Legal Interpretation
Peter de Vries, Cooperative Doctoral Program in Religion, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
October 24, 2003
Violence in the Name of Religion: A Bombay Case Study
Fred W. Clothey, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
April 11, 2003
The Conversion of the Donmeh to Turkish Secular Nationalism
Marc Baer, Postdoctoral Fellow, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
March 28, 2003
Scriptures, Canons, and Classics: Jewish Case Studies
Adam Shear, Assistant Professor Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
March 14, 2003
Walking the Labyrinth: Reflections on Ritual Action
Barbara Laishley, Cooperative Doctoral Program in Religion, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
February 14, 2003
Religious Commotions in the Scottish Diaspora: A Transatlantic Perspective on Presbyterian Evangelicalism
David Miller, Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
January 31, 2003
Sufism and Syncretism in Sultanate India: The "Chandayan" as a Model Text
Richard J. Cohen, Associate Director of Asian Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium
January 17, 2003
Lilith: A Woman of Consequence
Sandra Collins, Cooperative Doctoral Program in Religion, University of Pittsburgh
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium