6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University
The discussion is organized by the Chicago community of Pietre Vive, an international Catholic and ecumenical young adult organization that...
All day, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Black Theology & Black PowerA Conference exploring the legacy of James Cone https://jameshcone.northwestern.edu/about/ The conference is supported by Department of Religious Studies,...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
This presentation by Sarah Dees, Luce Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies, addresses American...
All day, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Northwestern is hosting the Engendering Change Graduate Student Conference. The purpose of this conference is to provide a space for graduate...
All day, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
"Beyond Oberman": Luther and the Middle Ages The year 2017 will mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Many events...
All day, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Graduate Student Conference Organized by Religious Studies Graduate Students Association. More Details TBA
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies End of Year Awards & Graduation Virtual Celebration!
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Lecture by Prof. Natalie Avalos, a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder details tba The...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Lecture by Prof. Marwan M. Kraidy, Professor of Communication and the Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media, Politics & Culture...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
As It Transpired: Multiple Lineages and Trans/Religious Study A Talk by Ashley King Recent works by trans authors wrestle with religious practices...
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by 2019-2020 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Join us for the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora's third event of the year. Tiffany Lethabo King will discuss her...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by 2019-2020 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Join us for the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora's second event of the year, and an evening of discussion exploring...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Graduate-Faculty Colloquium: “The Specter of the Fanatic: Christian Mission, White Sovereignty, and Religio-Political Radicalism” presented by Jeffrey Wheatley lunch will be provided
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us for hot cocoa, marshmallows, and a live research-based performance by Religious Studies major Chris LaMountain! r.s.v.p to religion@northwestern.edu
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In this lecture, historian Khaled Fahmy will describe the process by which modern medicine was introduced in early 19th-century Egypt....
All day, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Arendt on Earth takes the elusive concept of “earth” in the thought of Hannah Arendt as a frame, impetus and...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Bienen School of Music Concerts and Events
Donald Nally, conductor; Fuse Saxophone Quartet (Julian Velasco, soprano; Joe Connor, alto; Chris Forbes, tenor; David Schreck, baritone); Eric Budzynski,...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Come by for pizza and chat with your fellow Religious Studies majors and minors! Explore our upcoming course offerings and just...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
J. Michelle Molina is the John and Rosemary Croghan Chair, Associate Professor in Catholic Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies...
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join people around around the Chicago area, and around the country as they gather to celebrate the life and work...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Black Poetics and Environmental Memory: A Reading and Conversation featuring Ed Roberson and Tiana Clark Modern environmentalism has often struggled to...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by 2019-2020 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Join us for the 2019-2020 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora’s kickoff event. This year, the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us for conversations with Professor Michelle Molina about her current research on the sacramental logic of Jesuit material culture...
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Dr. Cristophe Ringer is an Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics & Society at the Chicago Theology Seminary. His research interests...
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Dr. Adam Kotsko is on the faculty of the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College, where he teaches...
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us at the Weinberg College Academic Direction Fair, meet with religious studies faculty and learn more about our program,...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies End of the Year Graduation Celebration
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Within one week of becoming president in January 2017, Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Protecting the Nation From...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
Peter Van Der Veer leads a masterclass on his new book, The Value of Comparison. In this book, he argues that many...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Graduate-Faculty Colloquium with Professor Sarah Taylor Lunch will be provided, r.s.v.p. to religion@northwestern.edu
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Lunch Talk by Jolyon Tomas, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania Abstract: Americans stationed in occupied Japan...
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents: "Carceral Aesthetics" a lecture by Nicole R. Fleetwood (Rutgers) moderated by Jennifer C....
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Spring Pedagogy Lunch Colloquium! RSVP to religion@northwestern.edu
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Come by for pizza!Explore our upcoming Fall courses!And just hang with your fellow Religious Studies majors and minors! RSVP to religion@northwestern.edu
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Edmund Perry Lecture presented by Jeff Wilson, Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies at Renison University College, in...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
From Conflict to Recognition: Rethinking a Scholarly Paradigm in the Study of Christian Origins by Ismo Dunderberg, Professor of New Testament...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Graduate-Faculty Colloquium lunch with Professor Mark McClish
All day, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
This international symposium will bring scholars of Islam, international and public affairs, education, race, and law together with practicing journalists...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Lecture By Professor Carl Ernst, Professor of Islamic studies at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North...
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Lecture By Wendy Doniger, Professor Emeritus of the History of Religions at the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations,...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Revival From Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam Faculty Book Colloquium presented by Professor Brannon Ingram, featuring panelists Professor Michelle...
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
Visiting scholar Dr. Rosemary Hancock will deliver a lecture on race, religion, and Australian grassroots politics. Although there is a significant body of...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
"My Fingers for War: A Prayer for Jewish Militiamen in Colonial Suriname" Eli Rosenblatt Affiliated Scholar, Northwestern University Sometime in the middle...
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Come by for pizza and chat with your fellow Religious Studies majors and minors! Explore our upcoming course offerings and just...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Graduate-Faculty Lunch Colloquium with Prof. Barry Wimpfheimer r.s.v.p. to religion@northwestern.edu
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Robert Launay presents work from his new book "Savages, Romans, and Despots," a tour of early modern and modern history...
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
A filmmaker digs into tales of surveillance inside her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago’s south suburbs and discovers that her hometown...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us and meet our faculty, students and other departament members! Learn more about Religious Studies and celebrate the Day...
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
The Religious Studies Department of Northwestern University invites you to attend a graduate student conference on “Sovereignty and Strangeness,” to...
9:00 AM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
The Religious Studies Department of Northwestern University invites you to attend a graduate student conference on “Sovereignty and Strangeness,” to...
3:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
The Religious Studies Department of Northwestern University invites you to attend a graduate student conference on “Sovereignty and Strangeness,” to...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
Master Class on Research Methods for the Study of Religion and Law with Dr. Benjamin Schonthal (Associate Professor of Buddhism and Asian...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
The international community celebrated the 2015 Myanmar elections and the success of the National League for Democracy and Aung San...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Harjant S. Gill will show his 30 min film, Mardistan (Macholand) followed by a Q&A. Mardistan (Macholand) explores Indian manhood articulated through the...
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Weinberg College Academic Directions Fair! Come and explore what each department and program has to offer!
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us for an End of Year reception honoring our graduating seniors and departmental award winners! We will convene in the Lake...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
The Graduate Group will be hosting Cecelia Lynch in a panel discussion of her new book Wrestling With God. Wrestling with God is...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Lecture by Dr. Judith Casselberry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Bowdoin College Response by Dr. Francesca Royster, Associate Professor of English,...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
A colloquium on the topic of Gods, Peoples, Earth: A Comparative Study of Martin Heidegger and Oskar Goldberg by Bruce...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
You are invited to Graduate –Faculty lunch colloquium with Stephanie Brenzel. Stephanie will present a Chapter One of her dissertation:...
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
The Department of German, Department of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies Program and Comparative Literary Studies, presents: Christina von Braun, Max Kade Distinguished...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Lecture presented by Christian Wedemeyer, Associate Professor of the History of Religions; Associate Faculty in South Asian Languages and Civilizations,...
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Manfred H. Vogel Memorial Lecture in Judaic Studies “Songs of Praise in a Broken World: Leonard Cohen from “Story of Isaac”...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
The capacity for “truth”—the ability to identify it, to convey it, to cherish it, and even to alter it—is one...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
by Professor David L. Haberman, Professor, Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Defined most simply as the attribution of human characteristics...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
“The Weekday Amidah as a Jewish Philosophical Response to the Problem of Evil.”
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
"Haven't I Told You Not to Take Yourself Outside of the Law?" Rabbi Yirmiyah and the Characterization of a Scholastic
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents "God Particle: Sublimity, Matter, and Virtuality in Black Feminist Poetics" – a...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join us for a dialog between Lamin Sanneh (Yale University and Yale Divinity School), author of Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Faculty Colloquium presented by Paul Ramírez, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University In the early modern world, Mexican salt was...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Please join us for a panel discussion with three professors from Northwestern’s Jewish Studies program. Each will present research from...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Come to hear students from the Department of Religious Studies present their honors theses.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Graduate Student Colloquium: Hannah Tebbetts
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents a talk by Dr. Mel Y. Chen (University of California, Berkeley). The event...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies Graduate-Faculty Colloquium: Job talk workshop with Sarah Wolf and William Caldwell
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us for treats and hot drinks in the spirit of Valentine’s Day!
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Yair LipshitzDepartment of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University Yair Lipshitz is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts at...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Sarah E. Dees, Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion, Politics, & Global Affairs, Department of Political Science and Department...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
By Yair Lipshitz, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theatre Arts in Tel Aviv University The talk will reflect on the...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies Colloquium Presented by Prof. Mira Balberg and Prof. Michelle Molina A conversation about shared theoretical interests, past and future...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us for some cupcakes and hot drinks in a Halloween atmosphere!
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
A lecture presented by a leading Tibetan Buddhist teacher Khenpo Sodargye from Larung Five Sciences Buddhist Academy in Tibet.
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents "Combahee Now" - a panel discussion reflecting on the Combahee River Collective Statement...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Lecture by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus,Associate Professor of African American Religions,Harvard Divinity School The election of Donald Trump to the US...
All day, sponsored by University Academic Calendar
TGS Graduate Student Orientation
All day, sponsored by University Academic Calendar
New Student Orientation (Wildcat Welcome)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Elephant, King and Holy ManReligious Studies Presents Edmund Perry Lectureby Thomas Trautmann, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Professor Emeritus of...
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Lecture by Professor Tuttle "Can Tibetan Buddhist Institutions Map 'Tibetan' Culture?" Organized by the Religious Studies Graduate Students Association at Northwestern University
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
RADICAL GRACE Three fearless nuns risk their place in the Catholic Church to follow another higher calling: socila justice. Movie screening with...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Thinking about the Torah: A Philosopher Reads the Bible Book Colloquium by Professor Kenneth Seeskin Panelists:Mira Balberg, Assistant Professor of Religion, Department...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Adam Kotsko, Professor in the Humanities at Shimer College In this talk, Adam Kotsko will show that bringing together neoliberalism and...
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Undergraduate Events
Conference hosted by the Undergraduate Philosophy Society, with speakers from Hillel, McSA, and Sheil Catholic Center, on issues of toleration...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
by Muhammad Qasim ZamanProfessor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion. Chair, Department of Near Eastern StudiesPrinceton University The event is organized...
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
By Professor Fatemeh Keshavarz, Director of Roshan Institute for Persian Studies and Roshan Institute Chair in Persian Studies, University of...
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Weinberg College Academic Directions Fair (formerly known as Major/Minors Fair) Come and explore what each department and program has to offer!
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies presents: Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies Spinoza - “The Renegade Jew...
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
EDMUND PERRY LECTURE "Hinduism and Its Others in Bollywood Film of the 2000s" Presented Diana Dimitrova, Associate ProfessorFaculty of Theology and Religious...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947Bruce HoffmanDirector of the Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University Bruce Hoffman is a tenured...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presented by Jacqueline Mariña, Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Anna Sun, Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies, Kenyon College "The Return of Confucianism in Contemporary China” The revival of Confucianism...
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
By Khenpo Karma Jamyang Gyaltsen,Buddhist institute in Tibet (Larung Gar in eastern Tibet) Khenpo Jamyang will be speaking about the place...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
By Matthew Engelke, Professor of Anthropology at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) What might it mean to...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
By Kim Gutschow, lecturer, Department of Anthropology/Sociaology and Religion, Williams College A talk juxtaposing Buddhist narratives of the birth of the...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd teaches on relations among law, religion, and global politics at Northwestern University. In summer 2015, she released Beyond...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
"Dialectic of Darkness: The Magical Foundations of Critical Theory" by Jason Josephson, Professor of the Department of Religion, Williams CollegeIn "Dialectic...
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Interdisciplinary Conversations: Religion Meets ReligiousStudies@Northwestern: African American Religions, 1500-2000, Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom A conversation, book signing and reception with Sylvester A....
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
"The Theological Origins of America's Culture War" by Molly Worthen, Assistant Professor, Department of History (UNC) Lunch Talk, rsvp to religion@northwestern.edu
8:30 AM - 7:45 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Luther: Forgotten and Neglected Aspects of His Life and Work An international conference, featuring Michael Massing, with Dean Bell, Molly Worthen,...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
Presented by Professor Steven Shankman, UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace at the University of Oregon. At...
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
A Conference at Northwestern University October 16 -17, 2015 The papacy of John XXIII and the convening of the Second Vatican...
1:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
A Conference at Northwestern University October 16 -17, 2015 The papacy of John XXIII and the convening of the Second Vatican...
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
Rajeev Bhargava, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, will be delivering a talk on his new research titled "Living with Religious...
