Malika Zeghal, Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, Harvard University Date: March 6, 2025 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, 1st floor Event description: What is the relationship between religion and the state in the Middle East? In her book, The Making of the […]
Candace Lukasik: Assistant Professor of Religion & faculty Affiliate in Anthropology & Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State Univ Date: February 14, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Abstract: In 2014, ISIS took control over large swaths of land in Iraq […]
Date: February 13, 2025 | 4:30-6:00 PM Location: Howard Thurman Center, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Brookline, MA ABOUT THE PANELISTS Kerice Doten-Snitker is a social scientist and Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. She received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Washington and previously held positions at the Carlos III – […]
Date: February 11, 2025 | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Keynote Speaker: Prof. Michael Zank, Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies & Medieval Studies at BU Respondent: Prof. Thomas Meyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Event Description: Description: Part II of Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism […]
Date: November 1, 2024 | 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Keynote Speaker: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Assistant Professor of Religion and Anthropology, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University Reading the paper in advance is required for attendance. […]
Date: October 31, 2024 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Location: 67 Bay State Road, Boston Join CURA for a book talk discussion with Saree Makdisi, Professor of English at UCLA, about his book Tolerance is a Wasteland. In this book, Makdisi explores the overarching question as to how a violent project of dispossession and […]
Presenter: Special Guest: Dana Robert, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Boston University Abstract: Dana Robert’s upcoming book explores how and why global Protestant movements have been foundational for studies of internationalism. During the early twentieth century, hopes for the peaceful coexistence of nations animated emerging […]
Join CURA for our keynote lecture for our colloquium series on Religion, Nationalism, and Internationalism. Presenter: Maya Tudor, Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford Event Description: All nationalisms seek political sovereignty. All nationalisms set themselves apart from ‘others.’ And all nationalisms are created at […]
Presenter: Morgan Crago Melkonian, PhD Candidate, School of Theology, Boston University Abstract: In the 1930s, Brazilian Protestant leaders faced the challenge of proving their patriotism, freedom from foreign control, and overall benefit to Brazilian society. The time was one of political turmoil, and Brazilian Protestants found themselves as a religious minority, with suspicions foreign connections, […]
Each year, CURA’s Religion and World Affairs Fellowship program brings together an interdisciplinary community of Boston-area graduate students and faculty. Once selected, CURA Fellows gather on the Boston University campus for bimonthly colloquium sessions throughout the academic school year to workshop papers around a particular topic. The research theme for the 2024-2025 Religion and World […]