CURA Colloquium • Spring 2026
CURA announces the spring 2026 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.
Spring 2026 Colloquium Registration
January 23 • Speaking in Code: Youth Poetry and the Politics of Possibility in Urban Uganda • Sarah Lewinger, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Boston University
February 6 • Desiring Sex, Desiring Piety: Sexual Moralities, Islam, and the Good (Gay) Muslim in Amman, Jordan • Jonathan Norris, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Boston University
March 20 • Trump, Christian Nationalism, and Migration • R. Ward Holder, Professor of Theology & Politics, St. Anselm’s College
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
April 3 • The Politics of Sanctity and Human Rights • Anat Biletzki, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy, Quinnipiac University
April 17 • Through and Beyond the State: Collaborative Finance and Cosmologies of Solidarity in East Africa • Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Research Associate, African Studies Center, Boston University
