Work in Progress Series

UPCOMING EVENTS

Professor Valerie Hoffman
Department of Religion, UIUC
"Islam and Muslim Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar"
Friday, September 5, 2008 at 12 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building (Behind Elevators, 1st Floor)

 

PAST EVENTS

Professor Megan McLaughlin
History and Gender and Women's Studies, UIUC
"Bodies That Speak: Demoniacs, Prophets, and Visionaries in the Central Middle Ages"
Friday, March 28, 2008 at 12 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building (Behind Elevators, 1st Floor)

Professor J. Denny Weaver

Professor Emeritus of Theology, Bluffton College
"Forgiveness, (Non)violence and the Atonement: A Mennonite Perspective"
Friday, October 12, 2007 at 12 pm
Room 2090B, Foreign Languages Building
(This lecture is co-sponsored by the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security)

 

CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series

Co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of Religion and the Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University
"Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of the Religious Law of Islam"
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 at 4 pm
Location: Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor
(Dr. An-Na'im also spoke the same day on "The Shari`a and Constitutionalism in Africa" in 101 International Studies Building at noon as part of the Center for African Studies Brown Bag Series.

 

Professor David Price

Program for the Study of Religion and Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, UIUC
"Who Saved the Jewish Books? A New Perspective on the Confiscation of Hebrew Books in the Holy Roman Empire, 1509-1510"
Friday, November 3, 2006 at 12 pm
2090B Foreign Languages Building

Professor Bruce Rosenstock

Program for the Study of Religion, UIUC
"Nakedness and Incest in the Garden of Eden"
Friday, September 15, 2006 at 12 pm
2090B Foreign Languages Building

This presentation will condense a longer paper, which is available for download in PDF format here.

Professor Brian Ruppert

Program for the Study of Religion and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
"Veneration and the Wealth of Practice: Constructing Memorials, Inscribing Devotion, and Proliferating Ritual in Premodern Japan"
March 10, 2006 at 12pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge

Professor Jon Ebel

Program for the Study of Religion, UIUC
"Souls Beyond Beautiful: American Women Encounter the Great War"
February 17, 2006 at 12pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge

Prof. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

Departments of History & Sociology, University of Illinois
"Islamic Pluralism and Abdolkarim's Doctrine of 'Silent Sharia'"
January 27, 2006 at 12pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge

Professor Jay Twomey

Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati
"Bending the Rule: Jonathan Edwards, the Rule of Scripture, and Women's Religious Agency"
December 9, 2005 at 12pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge

Professor Wayne Pitard

Program for the Study of Religion, UIUC
"The Ancient Canaanite Myth of Baal: Writing a Commentary"
November 11, 2005 at 12pm
Room 2090B Foreign Language Building

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