Speakers
Past Speakers:
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“Women’s Education on the Roof of the World: Intentional Change for Girls and Nuns in 21st Century Ladakh”
A talk with Geshe Lobsang Tseten and Ven. Tenzen Dasel, April, 2023
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Amy Hollywood, “That Book Has Been Read: Surface and Depth, Reading Susan Howe,” November, 2018
David Friedenreich, “Food and Jewishness: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives,” November, 2018
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Natasha Mikles, “Saving our Mothers from Hell: Gesar, Mulian, and the “Good Buddhist”. October, 2017
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Damon Berry, “‘Our Race is Our Religion’: Racial Protectionism and Religion in American White Nationalism,” March, 2017
Chris Hedges, “The Moral Imperative of Revolt,” February, 2017
Karlene Griffiths Sekou, “Anti-Colonial Resistance and the Power of the People,” March, 2017
Fatuma Hussein, “Post-Election Perspectives of Muslim Immigrant Women in Maine,” March, 2017
Nathanael Andrade, “On the Trail of the Apostle Thomas throughout a Connected Afro-Eurasia,” March, 2017
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Laura McTighe, “‘The System Was Designed to Fail Me’: Religion, Incarceration, and the Erasure of Black Women,” April, 2016
Charlene Sinclair, “Resurrecting the Dead: Introducing a Necro-ethic of Resistance to Mass Incarceration and Criminalization,” March, 2016
Lerone Martin, “‘J. Edgar Hoover’s Stained Glass Window’: The FBI and Christian America,” March, 2016
Joshua Dubler, “Why Not Prison Abolition?” February, 2016
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Christine Hoff Kraemer, “Eros and Touch from a Pagan Perspective: Loving Touch as Divine Birthright,” April, 2015.
Janet Bennion,“Progressive Polygamy in North America: Is Plural Marriage the New Civil Rights Frontier?” March, 2015.
Kent Brintnall, “Refusing Redemption: Making Catholic Sex Abuse ‘Our’ Story,” March, 2015.
Joseph Marchal, “Appa(u)lling Bodies: Queerly Reconfiguring Paul’s Letters,” February, 2015.
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Andrew Aghapour, “Pedagogy of the Possessed: Improv Comedy in the Classroom,” January, 2016
John Gager, “Let’s Meet Downtown at the Synagogue: Jews and Greeks in the Ancient World,” March, 2015.
Thomas Allen Harris, filmmaker, “Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and The Emergence of A People,” March, 2015.
Russell J. Hopley, “Sicily: A Mediterranean Island at the Crossroads of Byzantium and Islam,” November, 2013.
Ali Humayun Akhtar, “Byzantium in Ottoman Clothing: Greeks of Istanbul and the Music of Rembetiko,” November, 2013.
Maria Georgopoulou, “Venice, Byzantium, and Islam: Trade and the Arts in the Medieval Mediterranean,” October, 2013.
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Michelle Campos, “Between Empire and Nation: Muslims, Christians, and Jews and the end of the Ottoman Empire,” April, 2013.
Ali Humayun Akhtar, “Post-Graffiti Damascus and Cairo: Arab Street Art as a Global Aesthetic,” March, 2013.
Nebahat Avcioglu, “Turquerie and Orientalism: Cultural Transfer between Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th Centuries,” March, 2013.
David Rodríguez-Solás, “Coming to Terms with Islamic Spain: Contemporary Stagings of Early Modern Spanish Theatre,” March, 2013.
Jeffrey Jackson, “Paris Under Water. How The City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910,” April, 2010.