Speakers
Past Speakers:
“Religion, Coloniality, and Resistance – Religious Studies Speaker Series”
Shreena Gandhi, “Yoga, Cultural Appropriation, and Whiteness”
Nurjahan Boulden, “Reclaiming Belly Dance as Resistance”
William D. Hart, “The Discourse on Settler Colonialism”
“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
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
Natasha Mikles, “Saving our Mothers from Hell: Gesar, Mulian, and the “Good Buddhist”. October, 2017
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
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
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.
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.
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.