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 […]
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 […]