Challenges for Pardee School Affiliated Centers for BU Giving Day Help CURA to meet these challenges for the annual day of giving. 1. The Center that receives the most total donations will receive $2,500 2. The Center that receives the highest number of donations will receive $2,500
Deadline April 15th. Details here.
The Reverand Professor David A. Martin, a sociologist, passed away March 8. Martin was the first visiting scholar to CURA. Former CURA Director Bob Hefner writes about his life. A friend and founding collaborator of CURA and Boston University, David A. Martin passed away on March 8, 2019, just short of his 90th birthday. The author […]
A nice write up on our most recent Pizza & Politics session.
Amy S. Patterson, professor of politics at Sewanee University, who participated in last year’s CURA Colloquium, recently published the article she was working on during her session. Check out “When to Speak? Church Advocacy on Galamsey and Mental Health in Ghana”.
The first colloquium meeting of the semester began today with Brother Larry Whitney defending his paper “Govern Them with Moral Force by Ritual: The Confucian Prescription for Achieving Peace among the Warring States” Check out our full line-up for the fall.
Our colloquium fellows for the coming year have been selected! This year the theme will be “Religion, Violence, and Peacemaking”. Check out our colloquium page for info on the fellows for this year and for information on last year.
Call for Proposals for CURA Religion and World Affairs Colloquium 2018-19 Theme: “Religion, Violence, and Peacemaking” Boston University’s Institute for Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) invites BU faculty and graduate students to apply to become fellows in the interdisciplinary colloquium on religion and world affairs, organized in cooperation with the BU School of Theology. […]
CURA Colloquium fellow Yang Shen has earned a fellowship with the Global Religion Research Initiative, with her dissertation Caring for the Commons: Encountering Buddhist Residential Temples in Contemporary China.