A special Department for the Study of Religion series featuring cutting-edge talks that address and rethink methods and theories in the study of religion, while being anchored in particular periods, regions, traditions, or disciplines. Each lecture aims to bring together our department’s various communities of knowledge, reminding us that the project of the study of religion is situated in between these communities.
2024-25 Series
| Date | Guest Speaker | Title | More |
| Oct 8, 2024 | Cécile Fromont (Harvard University) |
The 2024 Annual DSR Alumni & Friends Lecture "Slave Trade, Witchcraft, Art: Material and Spiritual Histories of the Afro-Atlantic" |
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| Nov 14, 2024 | Mona Oraby (Howard University) |
"Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt" | |
| Jan 16, 2025 | Daigengna Duoer ( Boston University) |
"Handing Over Xuanzang’s Bones to a Mongolian Lama in Taiwan" The DSR is co-sponsor of this event in the Yehan Numata Program in Buddhist Studies Lecture Series |
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| Feb 6, 2025 | Constance Furey (Indiana University, Bloomington) |
"Unmooring Utopia: Death and Desire in Early Modern Christian Fictions" | Details |
| Feb 27, 2025 | Emrah Yildiz (Northwestern University) |
"Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders" | Details |
| Mar 20, 2025 | Marko Geslani (University of South Carolina) |
TBA |