Join us for a Conversation with Yulia Ginis, founding director of Jerusalem’s Mystorin Theatre Group. Tuesday, October 3, 2023 4 to 5:15 PM Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road Reception to follow from 5:15 to 6 PM Jerusalem-based Mystorin Theatre Group specializes in outdoor, site-specific and immersive performances in alternative venues such […]
Join us for a reading and discussion with Kurdish novelist Bachtyar Ali and his English language translator Kareem Abdulrahman, in conversation with Margaret Litvin, World Languages & Literatures. This event celebrates the recent publication by Archipelago Books of Ali’s The Last Pomegranate Tree – “a phantasmagoric warren of fact, fabrication, and mystical allegory, set in […]
This event celebrates the recent publication of Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism by Teena U. Purohit, Associate Professor of Religion, South Asian Studies, and Islamic Studies at Boston University, by Princeton University Press. DATE: Thursday, October 5, 2023 TIME: 4 to 5:30 PM LOCATION: Howard Thurman Center, 808 Commonwealth Ave, Brookline Muslim […]
Join us for a lecture by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Moderated by Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Professor of International Relations and of Earth and Environment. Guardians of Justice: The Supreme Court’s Role in Advancing and Safeguarding […]
Join us for a lecture by Melani McAlister, Professor of American Studies and International Affairs at George Washington University. This event takes place as part of our Fall 2023 Religion & Empire series, exploring the relationship between religion and empire and how religious ideas and ideas about religion sustain projects of imperialism. Quinn Slobodian, Professor […]
Join us on Thursday, September 21, from 5 to 7 PM, for a boat cruise along Boston’s beautiful Charles River. This fun, annual event is a great way to kick off the new semester and mingle with CURA colleagues and friends. Drinks and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Boat departs from the Deerfield Dock […]
CURA announces the fall 2023 colloquium schedule. This year-long conversation brings together an interdisciplinary community of scholars of Religion & Empire. Please register below for the session(s) you plan to attend. 20 years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, scholars of religion are again examining the place of empire in history and international relations. We […]