Department of Religious Studies
Events
Brown Bag Lunch Colloquia Archive
Colloquium Series 2008-2009
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
September 17, 2008
Hannah Arendt on the Miracle of Losing and Retrieving Conscience
Alon Segev, Max Plank Fellow, University of Heidelberg
October 29, 2008
The Hermeneutic Revolution in Contemporary Islam
Mohammed Bamyeh, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
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
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
February 11, 2009
Religion and Politics in China: Evidence from Survey Data
Wenfang Tang, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
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
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
Colloquium Series 2007-2008
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Colloquium Series 2006-2007
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
September 20, 2006
Gambaga: A Witch Sanctuary in the North of Ghana
David Brumble, Professor of English and Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
October 18, 2006
"Wars with the Lord?" Marketing Gersonides in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Adam Shear, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
November 8, 2006
Censorship and Civic Order in Reformation Germany
Allyson Creasman, Assistant Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
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
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
March 14, 2007
Tolerance as Hospitality: Pierre Bayle’s Commentaire Philosophique
Lucien Nouis, Assistant Professor of French, University of Pittsburgh
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
Colloquium Series Fall 2005
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
September 30, 2005
Missionaries, Diplomats, Soldiers, and Peasants: Modern China in Religious and Government Archives
Rob Carbonneau, CP, Director of Passionist Historical Archives
October 28, 2005
Mircea Elide, the History of Religions, and the “Provincialization” of Europe
Irina Livezeanu, Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
November 18, 2005
Idolatry and Theater after the English Reformation
Jennifer Waldron, Assistant Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
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
Colloquium Series 2004-2005
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
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
October 15, 2004
Orality in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Angela Kim-Harkins, Assistant Professor of Theology, Duquesne University
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
November 12, 2004
The Impacts of Christianity on Patterns of Community Formation in European History
Katherine Lynch, Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
December 10, 2004
Dimensions of Contemporary Chinese Buddhism
Stuart Chandler, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
January 21, 2005
Afro-Caribbean Missionaries in the Salvation Army, ca. 1900-1940
Lara Putnam, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
February 4, 2005
Wallace Stevens' "The Comedian as the Letter C" and the 100th Psalm
Richard Tobias, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Pittsburgh
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
April 1, 2005
Doubly Neglected: Women Monastics in Orthodox Christianity
Milica Bakić-Hayden, Instructor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
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
Colloquium Series 2003-2004
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
October 24, 2003
Violence in the Name of Religion: A Bombay Case Study
Fred W. Clothey, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
November 14, 2003
Paul and the Law: Applying Principles of Legal Interpretation
Peter de Vries, Cooperative Doctoral Program in Religion, University of Pittsburgh
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
January 23, 2004
Sexuality and Spirituality in Medieval Christianity: Methodological Considerations
Bruce Venarde, Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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
March 26, 2004
On Hermeneutics and Polemics: The Debate over Stone and Vegetal Buddhas
Linda Penkower, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
April 16, 2004
Hunting for the Virgin: Meat, Money, and Memory in Tetiz, Yucatán
Paul Eiss, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Colloquium Series Spring 2003
Noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning
January 17, 2003
Lilith: A Woman of Consequence
Sandra Collins, Cooperative Doctoral Program in Religion, University of Pittsburgh
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
February 14, 2003
Religious Commotions in the Scottish Diaspora: A Transatlantic Perspective on Presbyterian Evangelicalism
David Miller, Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
March 14, 2003
Walking the Labyrinth: Reflections on Ritual Action
Barbara Laishley, Cooperative Doctoral Program in Religion, University of Pittsburgh
March 28, 2003
Scriptures, Canons, and Classics: Jewish Case Studies
Adam Shear, Assistant Professor Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
April 11, 2003
The Conversion of the Donmeh to Turkish Secular Nationalism
Marc Baer, Postdoctoral Fellow, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh