CURA Colloquium • Fall 2025
CURA announces the fall 2025 colloquium schedule. This year-long conversation brings together an interdisciplinary community of scholars of culture, religion, and world affairs. Please register below for the session(s) you plan to attend.
Meetings take place at the Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) on the Fridays indicated, from 12 to 1:30 PM. Please note that reading the paper in advance is required for attendance. CURA workshops are dedicated to focused, in depth feedback and discussion. A copy of the paper(s) will be sent to registered participants one week in advance of each session.
Fall 2025 Colloquium Registration
September 19 • Moral Crusades and Losing Battles: The Anti-LGBTQ+ Backlash in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean • Taylor Boas, Professor, Political Science, Boston University
September 26 • Beyond Buddhist Nationalism: The Politics of Decentralized Resistance in Highland Southeast Asia • David Moe, Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in Southeast Asian Studies, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
October 10 • The Perils of Power: How Minority Representation Shapes Identity and Politics in India • Feyaad Allie, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University
October 17 • A Secret State within a Nation-State: The George Circle and the Rise of National Socialism in Germany • Yidi Wu, PhD Candidate, Department of Religion, Boston University
November 7 • Religion and State Formation in South and Southeast Asia • Farah Adeed, PhD Student, Department of Political Science, Boston University
December 5 • Kinship and Loss in a Warming World – Lessons from the Andean ‘Ayllu’ • Lior Hamovitz, PhD Student, Boston University
