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 […]
Date: October 18, 2024 | 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Keynote Speaker: Hannah Grace Howard, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology, Boston University Reading the paper in advance is required for attendance; CURA will email papers to registered attendees […]
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 […]
Date: October 8, 2024 | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Location: Howard Thurman Center, Boston University Keynote Speaker: Wendy Pearlman, Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University This event is open to BU students, faculty, and staff. Attendees must use their BU email when registering for this event. Tickets are limited to one ticket per […]
Date: October 8, 2024 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Location: Kilachand Honors College (91 Bay State Road) Room 101 Keynote Speaker: Wendy Pearlman, Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University “An absolutely vital book, Unflinching in its commitment to the testimony of people much of the privileged world has chosen to forget” – Omar […]
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 […]