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 […]
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, […]
Join the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) for a lecture by Walaa Quisay on “Countering the ‘Woke’ Agenda in Muslim Communities: Neo-traditionalism and Strategies for Political engagement and Disengagement.” See Event Abstract and Register below. EVENT ABSTRACT: Exploring tensions between traditional orientations and modern subjectivities, the pursuit of enchantment, and existing in […]
Registration is required via this link Trailer When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally support Israel witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turn. They join a movement of young American Jews battling the old guard to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel, revealing a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish […]
The Schedule Time Activity Title 9:00 – 9:50 Dane Scott Chaining God: Theorizing Bound Cult Images in Mediterranean Antiquity 9:50 – 10:40 Callid Keefe-Perry Altars of Empire: U.S. Christian Nationalism and the Performance of Power 10:40 – 11:30 Lance D. Laird Islamic Liberation Theology as the Empire Strikes Back: Palestinian Resistance Amid the Ruins of […]
Please join us at the Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, on Wednesday, March 27, at 2 PM, for a conversation with The Most Revd. Eliud Wabukala, Archbishop Emeritus of Kenya. Dr. Wabukala will talk about religion and politics in Africa, his work with the Kenyan government on anti-corruption and anti-violence, and his leadership experience […]
The Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) invites you to their keynote lectures for their year-long series on Religion and Empire. Register below.
Presenters: Zachary Mondesire, Assistant Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies Abstract: Since the moment of decolonization in Africa it seems that the political import of the Pan-African anti-imperialist worldview has waned. Yet, the project of continental unity has nevertheless persisted at regional and continental scales, as individuals and governments imagine and enact various forms of political […]