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: January 31, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Keynote Speaker: Warren S. Goldstein, Executive Director, Center for Critical Research on Religion Abstract: The creation the Jewish state of Israel in 1948 triggered an ongoing conflict that over seventy-five […]
Date: January 24, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Keynote Speaker: Syeda Rumana Mehdi, PhD Student in the Department of Anthropology, Boston University Abstract: Almost 1400 years later, the tragic death of Imam Hussain and his male relatives on […]
Date: Friday, December 13, 2024; 12:00-1:30 PM Location:Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Presenter: Merav Shohet, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University Abstract: This paper examines some of the narrative repetitions and silences of several octogenarian and nonagenarian elders who live(d) in kibbutzim near Israel’s northern borders with […]
Date: Friday, November 22 , 2024; 12:00-1:30 PM Location:Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Presenter: Callid Keefe-Perry, Assistant Professor of Public Theology, Boston College Abstract: Christian Nationalism (CN) has emerged as a significant force in contemporary American society, shaping public discourse, political agendas, and cultural conflicts. Existing measures […]
Date: Friday, November 8, 2024; 12:00-1:30 PM Location:Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Presenter: Special Guest: Ruth Braunstein, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut Abstract: American religion and politics have always been intertwined, but a major restructuring of the religious field starting in the 1950s […]
Date: November 7, 2024 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Location: 121 Bay State Road, First Floor Keynote Speaker: Ruth Braunstein, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut Discussant: Nancy Ammerman, Professor Emerita in the Sociology of Religion, Boston University Registration Required For the past several decades, Americans’ partisan loyalties have been […]
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 […]
Date: October 25, 2024 | 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Location: 67 Bay State Road, Boston Join our esteemed panelists as they engage in questions such as: What do we learn about Islam, politics, and the world by starting our analysis in Africa? By challenging the assumed dominance of the Middle East in the […]