“Judaism, Christianity and Islam: The Three-Way Debate in the Middle Ages” Guest lecture in Professor Deeana Klepper’s Religion/History seminar, Medieval Religious Cultures in Contact and Conflict: Jewish-Christian Encounter. Students and attendees will read selections (in English translation) of Jewish anti-Christian polemics from Islamic lands alongside Islamic anti-Christian polemics, as a way of exploring Jewish-Christian debate as […]
Professor Michael Suarez, Oxford University and Fordham University This lecture will examine how the Bible has been used as a vehicle of political satire and dissent in eighteenth and early-nineteenth century England, in the Communist GDR (East Germany), and Tony Blair’s Britain. Michael Suarez is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University and Fellow & […]
Geoffrey Hill is a University Professor and Professor of Literature and Religion in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University, Associate Fellow of the Center for Research in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Hill is the author of numerous […]
Gauvin Bailey, Luce Visiting Professor in Scripture and Visual Arts, Boston University Department of Religion This lecture will explore the estilo mestizo (“Mestizo Style”) school of architecture, which developed in the southern Andes during the last century and a half of colonial rule (1650-1800) in Latin America. Combining characteristics of European Renaissance and Baroque architecture with […]
In the context of the Religion Department’s course on “Death and Immortality,” Pearl will speak about his upcoming novel, The Poe Shadow, and his own research on Poe’s life, death, and work. This event is cosponsored by the BU Department of Religion.
Peter Manseau The author of Killing the Buddha: a Heretic’s Bible and Vows: the Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son will discuss the theme of biblical afterlife in his work as well as in American culture more generally. The talk will focus on the ways stories from scripture can become entwined with the stories […]
Professor Franco Mormando, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Boston College This lecture will explore the variously ambiguous, paradoxical, contradictory, often surprising and at times shocking presence of the sensual and even the sexual in baroque art.
Gregory Maguire Maguire will consider the origins of his best known novels, Wicked and Son of a Witch, as well as others, and will ruminate on the impact of childhood reading and writing, of faith and doubt, of history and politics, on his development as a writer. He will also comment on the surprising success of the […]
Charlotte Gordon Charlotte Gordon began her writing life as a poet and has published two books of poetry,When The Grateful Dead Came To St. Louis and Two Girls on a Raft. Charlotte received an undergraduate degree in English and American Literature from Harvard University and a PhD from Boston University, where she received the Alumnae Award […]