Perin Gurel - “Sing o Djinn!: Violence, Memory, and Narrative in The Bastard of Istanbul”
Perin Gurel, American Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Discussants: Erinn Staley, Religious Studies; and Anna Kesson, History of Art
Meredith Gamer - “Reconsidering George Morland’s Slave Trade and African Hospitality: Slavery, Sentiment, and the Limits of the Abolitionist Image”
Meredith Gamer, History of Art
Discussants: Erinn Staley, Religious Studies; and Anna Kesson, History of Art
Ellen Gough - “The Power of Powder: Modern Jain Monks’ Daily Meditation on Mandalas”
Ellen Gough
Department of Religious Studies
Emory University
“The Power of Powder: Modern Jain Monks' Daily Meditation on Mandalas”
Birgit Meyer - "How to capture the ‘wow’: R.R. Marett’s notion of awe and the study of religion"
Birgit Meyer
Universiteit Utrecht
"How to capture the ‘wow’: R.R. Marett’s notion of awe and the study of religion"
Lucia Hulsether - “Buying into the Dream: Post-Racial Subjects at the Center for Civil and Human Rights”
Lucia Hulsether
Yale University
“Buying into the Dream: Post-Racial Subjects at the Center for Civil and Human Rights”
Courtney Bender - “Category Errors: On Rivera, Rockefeller, and Religion”
Courtney Bender
Columbia University
“Category Errors: On Rivera, Rockefeller, and Religion”
Kati Curts - “A Harrowing History: The Relics and Reliquaries of Henry Ford”
Kati Curts
Yale University
“A Harrowing History: The Relics and Reliquaries of Henry Ford”
Lecture and Performance Series: The Eruv, Fall 2012
Organized by Margaret Olin and Sally Promey, in conjunction with multi-site Yale University exhibition on the same subject as well as the graduate seminar team-taught by Margaret Olin and Sally Promey
October 10
Biblical Borders and the Nation-State
a lecture by Rachel Havrelock, University of Illinois, Chicago
5 pm
sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies
The Wedding Banquet (Taiwan, US, 1993)
The Wedding Banquet (Taiwan, US, 1993)
Discussants: Professors Ron Gregg and Sally Promey
Supported by Films at the Whitney, the Institute of Sacred Music, and the Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion.
Melancholia (US, 2011)
Melancholia (US, 2011)
Discussants: Professors Kathryn Lofton and Sally Promey
Supported by Films at the Whitney, the Institute of Sacred Music, and the Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion.