Marjorie Hall Thulin Lecture on Religion And Contemporary Culture
2009 THULIN LECTURE
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About the Thulin Lecture
Marjorie Hall Thulin, for whom the annual lecture is named, is a 1931 graduate of the University of Illinois. She enjoyed a successful career in advertising. She also published poetry and children’s literature, and edited a book on the history of Glencoe, Ill., where she is a longtime resident. Mrs. Thulin’s desire for students to understand how religion grows and functions in a complex society, especially Christianity in American society, led her to endow a fund establishing the Marjorie Hall Thulin Scholar of Religion and Contemporary Culture. Through this endowment, each year an internationally known scholar of religion and contemporary culture is resident on the Champaign-Urbana campus for several days.
Past Thulin Lectures
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
"Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire"
April 10, 2008
Photographs, video, and audio from the event can be found here.
FOCUS 580 WILL radio interview with David Inge
Charles E. Curran
Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values, Southern Methodist University
"The Church and Politics"
March 29, 2007
Photographs from the event can be found here.
FOCUS 580 WILL radio interview with David Inge
Stanley Hauerwas
Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke University Divinity School
"Sacrificing the Sacrifices of War"
April 6, 2006
A set of web pages developed by David Suryk devoted to Prof. Hauerwas's visit to UIUC that include an audio recording of the Thulin Lecture by Professor Hauerwas can be found here.
Photographs from the event can be found here.
FOCUS 580 WILL radio interview with David Inge
David R. Loy
Professor at the Faculty of International Studies, Bunkyo University
"The Religion of the Market"
April 5, 2005
FOCUS 580 WILL radio interview with David Inge
Diana Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard University
"America's Religious Pluralism: Challenges for the New Century"
April 15, 2004
Focus 580 WILL radio interview with David Inge
Visiting Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Hamburg
"Between Playing Dead and Asserting Faith: Progressive Islam and the Clash of Civilizations"
April 3, 2003
Focus 580 WILL radio interview with David Inge
For more information, please contact:
Department of Religion
3080 Foreign Languages Building
707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Telephone: (217) 333-0473