multi-day
Tuesdays Coffee & Tea with Dr. T.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Have questions about Religious Studies, majoring, minoring, honor projects, or just want to learn more about our Department? Stop by...
Past Events
multi-day
Fall 2024 Graduate Conference: Desire and Intimacy in the Study of Religion
All day, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Religious Studies Graduate Conference This conference will explore how desire and intimacy shape religious lives and the scholars who study them....
multi-day
Revolution or Reformation? The Potential of Palimpsest Conference
All day, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
This interdisciplinary conference experiments with the concept of palimpsest as generative for addressing polycrisis. Featuring Annie Bourneuf (SAIC); Mark Haxthausen (Williams);...
multi-day
The Second KFBSLS In-Person Workshop
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
This is the second in a series of In-Person Workshops hosted by the Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at...
multi-day
Tuesdays Coffee & Tea with Dr. T.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Have questions about Religious Studies, majoring, minoring, honor projects, or just want to learn more about our Department? Stop by...
multi-day
Tuesdays Coffee & Tea with Dr. T.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Have questions about Religious Studies, majoring, minoring, honor projects, or just want to learn more about our Department? Stop by...
multi-day
The Second Lotsawa Translation Workshop: Celebrating Buddhist Women’s Voices in the Tibetan Tradition
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
The Lotsawa Translation Workshop is an opportunity to create a community of practice around the translation of Tibetan Buddhist texts,...
multi-day
The Second Lotsawa Translation Workshop: Celebrating Buddhist Women’s Voices in the Tibetan Tradition
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
The Lotsawa Translation Workshop is an opportunity to create a community of practice around the translation of Tibetan Buddhist texts,...
multi-day
The Second Lotsawa Translation Workshop: Celebrating Buddhist Women’s Voices in the Tibetan Tradition
8:00 AM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
The Lotsawa Translation Workshop is an opportunity to create a community of practice around the translation of Tibetan Buddhist texts,...
multi-day
The Second Lotsawa Translation Workshop: Celebrating Buddhist Women’s Voices in the Tibetan Tradition
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
The Lotsawa Translation Workshop is an opportunity to create a community of practice around the translation of Tibetan Buddhist texts,...
multi-day
2022 KFBSLS In-Person Workshop
All day, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
The inaugural workshop for the Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at Northwestern! The first of an annual in-person gathering...
multi-day
Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW) 2022
All day, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW) 2022 will take place from Monday, April 4 – Friday, April 8, 2022 (with some...
multi-day
Religious Studies Virtual Academic Direction Fair
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Come join us to learn about the Religious Studies department and play a Kahoot trivia game about religion! We’ve got a...
multi-day
Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Undergraduate Research
The OUR Expo and Creative Arts Festival is less than a month away. Support our community of undergraduate researchers &...
Apr
30
2025
A Lake of Fire: Apocalyptic Futures and an Anthropology of Grace
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Edmund Perry Lecture 2025 Presented by Tulasi Srinivas, Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Transnational Studies at The Marlboro Institute for Interdisciplinary...
Apr
22
2025
Graduate Colloquium with Dhondup T. Rekjong
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Graduate Colloquium with Dhondup T. Rekjong
Apr
18
2025
KFBSLS Year 5, Lecture 6: Naomi Appleton "Telling Jātakas in Kapilavastu: The Buddha’s Multi-Life Familial Love"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
The sixth lecture in the fifth year of the The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at Northwestern, delivered by...
Apr
15
2025
Polling Evangelicals
12:30 AM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Graduate Colloquium with Eda Uca, Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Studies
Apr
11
2025
(NARW) North American Religions April Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Apr
8
2025
Mermaids, Physicians, and Unruly Things: The Politics of Healing in Revival Zion Religion
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Guest Lecture by Professor Khytie Brown, Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Mar
18
2025
The Emergence of the Devotional Self in Late Biblical Narrative
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Professor Robert Kawashima, Department of Religion and the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida Lunch will be provided
Mar
12
2025
Rare Hebrew Books and Where to Find Them
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
"Rare Hebrew Books and Where to Find Them" Wednesday, March 12th, 2025, 5:00 pm Northwestern University Library, Forum Room 1970 Campus Drive, Evanston...
Mar
7
2025
(NARW) North American Religions December Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Mar
7
2025
KFBSLS Year 5, Lecture 5: Elodie Pascal, "Hidden Within: Merits, Materiality, and Memory in Japanese Buddhist Sculptures"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Attested as early as the Nara period (710-794), objects enshrined within Buddhist sculptures (zōnai nōnyūhin 像内納入品) constitute valuable evidence to...
Mar
4
2025
"The Heroic and the Fragile": Kehinde Wiley, Late Ancient Poetry, and the Gender of Martyrdom
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Guest Speaker Lecture with Prof. Virginia Burrus, Syracuse University.
Mar
4
2025
Religious Studies Grad-Faculty Reading Series
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
This new initiative, entitled “In Theory: Off the List,” brings together faculty and graduate students to read and explore a...
Feb
27
2025
The Body is the Book: Jewish Artists' Books and Rare Judaic Materials
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
"The Body is the Book: Jewish Artists' Books and Rare Judaic Materials" Thursday, February 27, 5:00 pm Northwestern University Library, Ver...
Feb
18
2025
Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert | A Book Talk by Barbara Sostaita (University of Illinois Chicago)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group as they host Barbara Sostaita (UIC) Barbara Andrea Sostaita is a formerly...
Feb
18
2025
Religious Studies Grad-Faculty Reading Series
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
This new initiative, entitled “In Theory: Off the List,” brings together faculty and graduate students to read and explore a...
Feb
15
2025
Religious Studies Majors and Minors: Cat & Cuddle Winter Study Break
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us for Cat & Cuddle Winter Study Break and some Religious Cat Trivia @ Paws and Claws Cat Adoption...
Feb
7
2025
(NARW) North American Religions February Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Feb
7
2025
KFBSLS Year 5, Lecture 4: David Germano, "The Visible and Invisible Consort: Tantric Sexuality in 14th Century Tibet”
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
The fourth lecture in the fifth year of the Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at Northwestern. In this talk, David...
Jan
21
2025
Religious Studies Grad-Faculty Reading Series
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
This new initiative, entitled “In Theory: Off the List,” brings together faculty and graduate students to read and explore a...
Jan
17
2025
(NARW) North American Religions January Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Jan
10
2025
KFBSLS Year 5, Lecture 3: Jessica Zu: "Care-Based Processual Philosophies for Isonomia (no-rule): Evidence from Pāli Texts"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
This study reconstructs a care (karuṇā)-based philosophy for building an isonomic, complex society preserved in Pāli texts. The Greek term isonomia...
Dec
6
2024
(NARW) North American Religions December Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Nov
24
2024
Northwestern Religious Studies Reception at the 2024 AAR Conference (San Diego, CA)
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
2024 AAR & SBL Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA Northwestern University alumni, faculty, friends, and current and prospective graduate students...
Nov
8
2024
(NARW) North American Religions November Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Nov
8
2024
KFBSLS Year 5, Lecture 2: Heather Blaire: “Buddhist Prayer and Obligation in Early Medieval Japan"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
The second lecture in the fifth year of the Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at Northwestern.
Nov
7
2024
"I Contain Multitudes": Jewish reckonings in a Muslim Household
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group as they host PhD candidate in Anthropology, Idil Ozkan (Northwestern University). Abstract:...
Oct
30
2024
Religious Studies Fall Gathering
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us for delicious treats, spooky fun, and hot drinks in a Halloween atmosphere! Costumes are encouraged! R.S.V.P. below.
Oct
25
2024
KFBSLS Year 5, Lecture 1: Willa Baker, "Coming Forward: The Treacherous and Empowering Path of Breaking Silence.”
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
The first lecture in the fifth year of the Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at Northwestern.
Oct
25
2024
Heartwood/Northwestern Symposium on Sexual Violence in Buddhism: Centering Survivor Voices
8:45 AM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
The first-ever conference about Buddhism and sex abuse, and also the first one to be centering survivor voices. Conference funding provided...
Oct
18
2024
Religion in Europe Today: Secularization, Christianism, and Neoliberal Visibility
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Lunch presentation by Titus Hjelm, Professor in the Study of Religion, Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki Lecture Abstract: Europe has...
Oct
11
2024
(NARW) North American Religions October Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Sep
26
2024
Religious Studies Department Welcome Reception
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us at the Double Clutch Brewery in Evanston to celebrate the start of the year and meet our new...
Sep
19
2024
Weinberg College Academic Directions Fair
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Welcome Class of 2028! Join us at the Fair, meet with religious studies faculty, and learn more about our program,...
May
30
2024
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration
May
21
2024
Religious Studies Graduate Colloquium with Miranda Smith
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Religious Studies Graduate Colloquium with Miranda Smith
May
14
2024
Graduate Colloquium with Amanda Gvozden
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Graduate Colloquium with Amanda Gvozden
May
11
2024
Grant Application Workshop
All day, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Grant application workshop for graduate students across the humanities and interpretive social sciences at Northwestern whose work focuses on religion....
May
10
2024
(NARW) North American Religions May Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Apr
30
2024
Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Edmund Perry Lecture presented by Rima Vesely-Flad, Professor of Religious Studies at Warren Wilson College This lecture is drawn from Dr....
Apr
27
2024
3rd Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow- Hosted by NAISA
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Office of Community Enrichment
Northwestern University Third Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow - Hosted by the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance ALL ARE WELCOME!!!
Apr
23
2024
A Fatal Policy: War-Time in the Astral State
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
GSA Guest Lecture: Presentation by Professor Marko Geslani Professor Geslani is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of...
Apr
16
2024
This is how my conciencia was born: Jesuits, Maya, and a church from below in revolutionary Guatemala
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Professor Carlota McAllister "This is how my conciencia was born: Jesuits, Maya, and a church from below in revolutionary...
Apr
9
2024
Karma, Kinship, and Queerness in the Cinema and Video Art of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Presentation by Arnika Fuhrmann, Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. The event is organized by Religious Studies...
Apr
5
2024
(NARW) North American Religions April Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Apr
5
2024
KFBSLS Year 4, Lecture 7: Charles Hallisey, "The Ethics of Care and Responsibility for the Sāsana as a Transgenerational Project."
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Since the beginning of the field of Buddhist Studies, Buddhist historiographies have been valued as sources for historical information, but...
Mar
22
2024
(NARW) North American Religions March Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Mar
12
2024
Graduate Colloquium with Miranda Smith
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Graduate Colloquium with Miranda Smith
Mar
8
2024
KFBSLS Year 4 Lecture 6: Nisheeta Jagtiani, "The Fourteenth Dalai Lama and His Rimé Approach"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
In this talk, Northwestern doctoral candidate Nisheeta Jagtiani examines the teachings and political philosophy of the Fourtheenth Dalai Lama, with...
Mar
5
2024
Ninety-Nine Names: Towards an Ethnography of God
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Professor Amira Mittermaier (University of Toronto) Abstract: According to the Islamic tradition, the quintessential human flaw is not sinfulness...
Mar
1
2024
(NARW) North American Religions March Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Mar
1
2024
Leprosy and the Boundaries of Christendom.
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Prof. Lily Stewart Lunch will be provided.
Feb
27
2024
GSA Speaker Event by Professor Abel R. Gómez
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Professor Abel R. Gómez, an Assistant Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, researches the relationships between sacred sites, ceremony,...
Feb
21
2024
Leprosy and the Boundaries of Christendom.
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Prof. Lily Stewart Lunch will be provided.
Feb
20
2024
From the Medium to the Agent: Self and Agency in Khandro Dechen Wangmo’s Prophetic Text
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Graduate Colloquium presented by Ph.D. candidate, Sherab Wangmo.
Feb
16
2024
Senior Honor Thesis Info Luncheon
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Senior Honor Thesis Info Luncheon
Feb
16
2024
KFBSLS Year 4, Lecture 5: Jue Liang, "Making It as Buddhist Women: Rethinking Female Inferiority in Tibetan Buddhism"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
One of the persistent tensions that has defined and challenged Buddhist communities (and the study of Buddhism) is the well-recognized...
Feb
14
2024
Between faith, activism, and academia: Latin American experiences of intersectionality
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program as they host...
Feb
13
2024
Happy Valentine's Undergraduate Gathering
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
We Love our majors and minors! Join us for a night of sweets and treats, play games, and hear more about...
Feb
6
2024
Faculty Book Colloquium with Kevin Buckelew
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Faculty Book Colloquium with Kevin Buckelew
Feb
2
2024
(NARW) North American Religions February Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Jan
26
2024
(NARW) North American Religions January Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Jan
24
2024
The Politics of Religious Freedom in the Inter-American System
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program as they host...
Jan
19
2024
KFBSLS Year 4, Lecture 4: Andrew Macomber, "Evil Dead in the Aristocratic Mansion: Buddhist Experiments with Ritual Healing in Heian Japan"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
From the middle of the Heian period (794–1185) on, the aristocracy in the capital of Heian-kyō more and more found...
Jan
12
2024
(NARW) North American Religions January Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Dec
8
2023
(NARW) North American Religions December Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Nov
19
2023
Northwestern Religious Studies Reception at the 2023 AAR Conference (San Antonio, TX)
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
2023 AAR & SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX Northwestern University alumni, faculty, friends and current and prospective graduate students...
Nov
10
2023
KFBsls Year 4, Lecture 3: Huatse Gyal, "Blessing or Poison? The Mass Production/Consumption of Khata and its Afterlife"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
What is a Khata (ཁ་བཏགས)? The Khata is a white ceremonial scarf used primarily as an offering to religious teachers....
Nov
7
2023
A Colloquium featuring Neeti Nair (University of Virginia) and J. Barton Scott (University of Toronto)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group, the South Asia Research forum and the Department of Asian Languages...
Nov
7
2023
How to become a successful ruler? A philosophical re-examination of the Arthaśāstra
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
Join us for a talk by Agnieszka Rostalska, Ghent University, on "How to become a successful ruler? A philosophical re-examination...
Nov
7
2023
Religious Studies Grant Writing Workshop
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Dr. Stephen Hill Dr. Stephen Hill is the Senior Associate Director in the Office of Fellowships and the purpose of this...
Nov
3
2023
(NARW) North American Religions November Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Oct
30
2023
Religious Studies Fall Undergraduate Gathering
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies Fall Undergraduate Gathering details tbd.
Oct
27
2023
Global Antiquities Graduate Social
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
The Global Antiquites Group at Northwestern invites you to our first Graduate Student Social and Reception! It will be held...
Oct
27
2023
KFBSLS Year 4, Lecture 2: Xiaoqiang Meng: "Philosopher’s Myth, Worldmaking, and Religious Polemics: How to Read Buddhist Deva-Asura War Myth?"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
The epic warfare for supremacy between Indian Gods and Titans, i.e. Devāsurasaṃgrāma, is a myth prevalent in and beyond South...
Oct
19
2023
“New Directions in the Study of Religion, Law, and Public Life: Benjamin Schonthal and Levi McLaughlin.”
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group as they host Benjamin Schonthal (Professor and Head of Programme in...
Oct
17
2023
LACS | Faculty Colloquium | Race, Politics, and Religious Placemaking in Jamaica
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
A faculty colloquium with Dr. Dennis Meade. Lunch will be provided. What is the relationship between space, place, and religious conviction?...
Oct
6
2023
(NARW) North American Religions October Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Sep
29
2023
KFBSLS Year 4, Lecture 1: Damchö Diana Finnegan, "Reading, Translating, Retelling Buddhist Narratives: What are our Ethical Obligations?"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
In a very basic sense, relationships involve ethics. This talk suggests that in working with Buddhist narratives, we are moving...
Sep
14
2023
Religious Studies Department Welcome Reception
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us at the Double Clutch Brewery in Evanston to celebrate the start of the year and meet our new...
Sep
7
2023
Religious Studies Virtual Academic Fair
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us at the Religious Studies Virtual Academic Fair on Sep 6, 1-2pm, and Sep 7, 2-3pm. Learn more about...
Sep
6
2023
Religious Studies Virtual Academic Fair
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us at the Religious Studies Virtual Academic Fair on Sep 6, 1-2pm, and Sep 7, 2-3pm. Learn more about...
Aug
31
2023
Religious Studies Meet abd Greet
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Welcome Class of 2027! Stop by for an in-person conversation with our Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Taylor, who tell...
Jun
2
2023
Lecture 9: Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā, "Revived Theravāda bhikkhunīs and the bhikkhusaṅgha: institutional asymmetries, legal and existential dissonances"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
In this lecture, Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā will take up the legal and relational ambivalence with respect to the perceived legal "existence"...
May
31
2023
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration
May
19
2023
(NARW) North American Religions May Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
May
19
2023
Department Renaming Symposium: From "African American Studies" to "Black Studies"
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Black Studies Department
BLACK TO FRONT: From "African American Studies" to "Black Studies" • Keynote speaker: Professor Davarian Baldwin (author, ‘In the Shadow of the...
May
19
2023
Lecture 8: Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, "Reflections on the Nonsectarian (ris med) Movement and the Academic Study of Buddhist Traditions"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was trained in all schools of Tibetan...
May
13
2023
Religious Studies Bahá'í House of Worship Walking Tour
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us for a walking tour to the Bahá'í House of Worship - a field trip led by Professor Richard...
May
11
2023
Edmund Perry Lecture "We are not here to know: Ways of Approaching Buddhist Art" (hybrid)
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presented by Justin McDaniel (Professor of Southeast Asian and Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania) Professor McDaniel's research foci include...
May
10
2023
The Separation (and Unification) of Yoruba Tradition and State: An Analysis of Indigenous Yoruba Articulations of Power, Politics, and Religion
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group for this talk with Ayodeji Ogunnaike (Bowdoin College) Despite Nigeria carrying out...
May
5
2023
(NARW) North American Religions May Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
May
3
2023
Plague and Contagion in the Colonial Mexican Convent: Affect, Embodiment and Cultures of Care, A Talk by Stephanie Kirk
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
A Talk by Professor Stephanie Kirk, Washington University in St. Louis: In this talk I will examine the circumstances around the...
Apr
21
2023
(NARW) North American Religions April Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Apr
20
2023
Political Reaction: How Sexuality Studies Matters to the Struggle for Social Justice- Keynote Address by Janet Jakobsen
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)'s 2023 Workshop, Political Reaction: How Sexuality Studies Matters to the Struggle for Social Justice,...
Apr
14
2023
Lecture 7: Sherab Wangmo, "'Ocean of Dakinis’: Biography, Gender, and Agency in a treasure text of Khandro Dechen Wangmo (1868-1935?)"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
This talk introduces the biograhies of the Ocean of Dakinis, a collection of sixteen female figures revealed by Khandro Dechen...
Apr
7
2023
(NARW) North American Religions April Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Apr
6
2023
Religious Studies Graduate Student Appreciation
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Snacks and gifts provided to RELST Graduate Students.
Mar
31
2023
Lecture 6: Lama Rod Owens, "An Introduction to the New Saint Tradition"
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
The New Saint is a contemporary expression of an ancient Buddhist tradition, which understands the saint as a Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva...
Mar
29
2023
Davóne Tines
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Bienen School of Music Concerts and Events
Davóne Tines, bass-baritone; John Bitoy, piano Recital No. 1: Mass is the latest in a series of Davóne Tines’s works speaking...
Mar
11
2023
KFBSLS Surprise Talk: Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, "Reflections on the Dharma"
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Drupon Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche serves as the spiritual director for the Chicago Ratna Shri Sangha. Drupon Rinpoche received teachings on...
Mar
7
2023
“James Cone and the Eschatological Critique of Mass Incarceration” with Guest Lecturer Dr. Christophe Ringer
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join the Center for the Church and the Black Experience at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminar and Northwestern Religious Studies Department in...
Mar
7
2023
RS Professionalization Workshop
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
RS Professionalization Workshop
Mar
3
2023
Faculty Colloquium
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Robert Orsi Give Us Boys: The Erotics of Religious Formation at a Jesuit High School in the Bronx in...
Feb
24
2023
(NARW) North American Religions March Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Feb
23
2023
Lecture 5: Professor Lucia Dolce, "New abhiṣeka rituals in medieval Japan: Reimagining continental tantric practices?"
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Several new types of initiatory practices were created by Japanese tantric ritualists between the 12th and the 14th centuries. Often...
Feb
21
2023
RS Professionalization Workshop
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
RS Professionalization Workshop
Feb
15
2023
"Banality and Supremacy: How Catholicism Reproduces Privilege in France": Elayne Oliphant (New York University)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group and co-sponsor French Interdisciplinary Group as they host Elayne Oliphant (New...
Feb
13
2023
Born in the Struggle Film Viewing
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by American Studies Program
Please join African American Historian, ETHS AP History teacher, and film-maker Kamasi Hill for a viewing of his documentary, "Born...
Feb
7
2023
RS Professionalization Workshop
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
RS Professionalization Workshop
Feb
3
2023
(NARW) North American Religions February Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Feb
3
2023
Lecture 4: Professor Melissa Curley, "Living Memory: Mass Body Relics in Modern and Contemporary Japan"
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Japanese Buddhists, medieval and modern, have made a dizzying number of things. A tiny fraction of these things are made...
Jan
13
2023
(NARW) North American Religions January Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Jan
13
2023
Lecture 3: Professor Annabella Pitkin, "Aim Your Dharma Practice at a Beggar's Life: Memory, Renunciation, and Longing in the Life of a Modern Himalayan Buddhist Master.”
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Devotion plays a central role in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist accounts of guru-disciple relationship, part of an ideal of indivisible...
Dec
16
2022
Lecture 2: Professor Brooke Schedneck, "Disciplining Bodies: Surveilling Monasticism in Contemporary Thailand"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
In contemporary Thailand, a significant topic of discussion is monastic behavior. Transgressions of appropriate monastic appearance and physical comportment are...
Dec
2
2022
(NARW) North American Religions December Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Dec
1
2022
Hot Chocolate & Cookies Break
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Take a break and join the Religious Studies department for some sweet treats!
Nov
29
2022
RS Professionalization
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Religious Studies Professionalization Workshop
Nov
21
2022
Israeli Elections 2022: Decision at Last, Again?
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Israel Innovation Project
A conversation with David Horovitz, founding editor of The Times of Israel, about the results of the 2022 Israeli Elections.
Nov
15
2022
Graduate Student Colloquium
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Courtney Rabada is presenting her Graduate Student Colloquium on Tuesday, November 15 in Kresge 1515 from 12:30-2:00 pm. The title...
Nov
11
2022
(NARW) North American Religions November Workshop (Tentative)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Nov
11
2022
GLOBAL LUNCHBOX | Religion and the Sacred in the Caribbean: A conversation with KB Dennis Meade
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Please join us for the Global Lunchbox, a weekly forum convened by the Weinberg College Center for International and Area...
Nov
11
2022
Lecture 1: Zim Pickens, "Preliminary Practices and the Formation of Tibetan Buddhism"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Zim Pickens is a doctoral candidate in Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley. He will deliver the KFBSLS's first lecture of...
Nov
8
2022
RS Professionalization
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
RS Professionalization Workshop
Nov
4
2022
NARW- Presentation by Izzak Novak
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Nov
1
2022
Re-Selling Religion: ethnography & Christian material culture in circulation.
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by James S. Bielo, Associate Professor in Anthropology Miami University, OH
Oct
21
2022
Sermons in the Nahuatl language of 16th century Mexico: challenges for study
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Drs. Berenice Alcántara and Mario A. Sánchez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Several libraries around the world preserve manuscripts containing...
Oct
14
2022
(NARW) North American Religions October Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Sep
15
2022
Weinberg College Academic Direction Fair
9:30 AM - 12:30 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,...
Jun
15
2022
Phurwa Gurung: "(Un)seeing like a conservationist: Politics of translating nature/culture in the pluriverse"
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Phurwa Gurung is a doctoral candidate in Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. In this lecture, he will critically...
Jun
8
2022
Religion and Construction of the Images of Ukrainian Lands by the Historians of the Russian Empire
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
A virtual talk with Pavlo Yeremieiev, a historian from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98152145819
Jun
3
2022
(NARW) North American Religion June Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Jun
3
2022
Global Religion and Politics Research Group Symposium 2022
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
The symposium entitled, “Global ‘Religion’: Invention, Translation, Critique”, like our spring 2019 workshop, will take place under the aegis of...
Jun
1
2022
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration
May
31
2022
What Is This? Lived Religion, Pentecostalism, Blackness
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Graduate-Faculty Colloquium with Marlon Milner The event is hybrid, please register below.
May
27
2022
Guest Lecture with Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada is Assistant Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College where she holds the Marlene Crandell Francis Chair in the...
May
25
2022
"A Matter of Faith: Religious Arguments and Political Goals Behind the Russian-Ukrainian War": A Talk given by Dmytro Vovk
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
As part of an initiative created by The Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (REEES) Research Program and the Buffett...
May
23
2022
Toward the Critique of Violence in 1920s and 2020s Colloquium
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
A Colloquium at Northwestern University in response to the publication of the new translation and critical edition of Walter Benjamin’s...
May
17
2022
Edmund Perry Lecture: Teaching Buddhism in the Western Academy
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presented by Jan Willis (Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University) Jan Willis is Professor Emerita of Religion at Wesleyan University in...
May
10
2022
Dr. Jan Willis: "Teaching Buddhism in the Western Academy"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Jan Willis is Professor Emerita of Religion at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She has studied with Tibetan Buddhists in...
May
6
2022
(NARW) North American Religion May Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
May
3
2022
Christus-Rex: Sacrifice, Sovereignty, and the Secular in the Seventeenth Century
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
presented by Professor Jonathan Sheehan (University of California, Berkeley)
Apr
21
2022
Myers Foundations Lecture: Melissa Kerin in conversation with Catherine Becker, "Coming and Going: Marble Sculpture in the Creation and Memorialization of Lives in the Western Himalaya and the US"
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
In her presentation, Melissa Kerin, Associate Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University, will examine how her specific...
Apr
12
2022
Dr. Lama Jabb: “Distilling Joys and Woes: An Appreciation of Contemporary Tibetan Women’s Writing”
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
With the exception of a few remarkable female luminaries, traditional Tibetan literature hardly has any room for the public voice...
Apr
8
2022
Religious Studies & History --What’s in a Discipline?
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
A symposium on the retirement of Professor Richard Kieckhefer Panelists: Mira Balberg, University of California at San Diego Deeana Copeland-Klepper, Boston University Martha Newman,...
Apr
6
2022
Religious Studies Graduate Students Appreciation Day!
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Religious Studies Graduate Students Appreciation Day! Stop by the Department for some snacks and a surprise gift!
Apr
5
2022
Weinberg College Named Chair Investiture | Sanford Goldberg, Christine Helmer, and Susan Manning
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Investiture Ceremony for Named Chairholders Sanford Goldberg Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities Department of Philosophy Christine Helmer Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the...
Apr
1
2022
(NARW) North American Religion April Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an intedisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Mar
10
2022
The Lullaby of Jewland
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Guest Lecture by Prof. Daniel Boyarin, Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies...
Mar
4
2022
(NARW) North American Religion March Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Feb
25
2022
Dr. Sonam Kachru: On Keeping The History of Philosophy Weird
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
There's no denying it. There's a lot of weird stuff in Buddhist cosmology. My first book, Other Lives: Mind and...
Feb
10
2022
Works-in-Progress with Darcie Price-Wallace
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Works-in-Progress with Darcie Price-Wallace, discussing "Gender Asymmetry in the Different Buddhist Traditions Through the Prism of Nuns’ Ordination and Education."...
Feb
4
2022
(NARW) Presentation by Nichole Kirk
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working alongside the field of North American Religions.
Jan
26
2022
Darice Price-Wallace: "Telling Stories Affectively: Multivocal Perspectives on the Buddhist Women's Foundational Ordination Narrative"
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Darcie Price-Wallace is a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies at Northwestern University. She holds an MA in History of Religions and...
Jan
7
2022
(NARW) Presentation by Aram Sarkisian
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Dec
15
2021
Dr. Stephanie Balkwill, "Buddhism and Sex in the Sixth Century: The Biography of Taghbach Yue, a Foreign Prince in Luoyang"
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
The Chinese sixth century was a time of upheaval and reconfiguration that saw the traditionally nomadic peoples of the Inner...
Dec
3
2021
(NARW) Presentation by Gabrielle Guillerm
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdiciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Nov
12
2021
(NARW) Presentation by Courtney Rabada (New Date)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Nov
12
2021
Dr. Natasha Heller, "What is Buddhist Parenting, and Where Do We Find It?"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
In this talk, Dr. Heller will explore how parenting is presented in Taiwanese Buddhist literature both for adults and for...
Nov
9
2021
Ancient Samaritans and the Limits of Christian Empire
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Professor Matthew Chalmers Contact religious-studies@northwestern.edu if you are interested in attending.
Oct
6
2021
Dr. Jann Ronis: Collating Canons and Linking Data: Building Indra's Net for the Information Age
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
This lecture was delivered on October 6th, 2021. You can view it here. The vast Buddhist literary heritage spans two thousand...
Oct
1
2021
Religious Studies Departamental Fall Gathering
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Families and significant others are welcome. We hope to see you all!
Oct
1
2021
(NARW) Presentation by Ray Buckner
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Sep
14
2021
Religious Studies Incoming Graduate Students Orientation
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
details tbd.
Jun
9
2021
Thupten Jinpa: "The Art of Translating Buddhist Texts and Traditions"
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Thupten Jinpa is a former Tibetan monk who holds the Geshe Lharam degree, as well as a B.A. in philosophy...
Jun
8
2021
For the People: A Roundtable on Community Organizing and Mutual Aid
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by 2019-2021 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Join us for the final installment of the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora's series Survey: Contemplation. Control. Creativity. Joined by the...
Jun
2
2021
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies End-Of-Year Celebration
May
28
2021
(NARW) Presentation by Gabrielle Guillerm
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
May
26
2021
Objects of Influence: Sacrality and Native American Material Culture Across Five Contexts
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies major, Emily Holtzman, will be presenting at the Undergraduate Research & Arts Expo! She will be participating in...
May
19
2021
Carmen Simioli and Khenpo Yeshi: Current Studies in Tibetan Buddhism
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
The The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at Northwestern is pleased to host our own Dr. Carmen Simioli and...
May
18
2021
Virtual Talk: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Environmental Policy and Culture
On Tuesday, May 18, 3PM, Dina Gilio-Whitaker will speak on the topic, "Indigenizing and Decolonizing Environmental Justice". Through the unique lens...
May
18
2021
Graduate-Faculty Colloquium with James Hill
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Graduate-Faculty Colloquium "The Black Church and the Black Fantastic: Black Religious Experience in Popular Culture" Presented by James Hill, Ph.D candidate, Religious...
May
15
2021
Religious Studies Undergraduate Field Trip to the Baha'i House of Worship
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies Majors and Miniors Field Trip to the Baha'i House of Worship! Contact religous-studies@northwestern.edu for more information.
May
14
2021
(NARW) Presentation by Michael Hertenstein
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
May
11
2021
Graduate-Faculty Colloquium with Marlon Millner
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
CANCELED: Graduate-Faculty Colloquium "On Pentecostalism -- Black Religion After Death" Presented by Marlon Millner, Ph.D candidate, Religious Studies
May
3
2021
EDMUND PERRY LECTURE "White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America" with Dr. Anthea Butler
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
EDMUND PERRY LECTURE "White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America", presented by Dr. Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religion,...
Apr
30
2021
(NARW) Presentation by Ray Buckner
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Apr
29
2021
Faheem Majeed and LaCharles Ward in conversation (Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora)
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by 2019-2021 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Faheem Majeed and LaCharles Ward will join us to talk about their work and reflect on the Colloquium's ongoing theme...
Apr
28
2021
Chün-fang Yü: "The Renewal of Buddhism in China," Reflections on the Study of Chinese Buddhism
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Chün-fang Yü was born in China and educated in Taiwan, graduating from Tunghai University with a major in English Literature...
Apr
27
2021
A Conversation with Dr. Traci West
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
A Conversation with Dr. Traci C. West, Professor of Christian Ethics and African American Studies, Drew University Theological School (Madison,...
Apr
16
2021
(NARW) Presentation by Carl Creason
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Apr
15
2021
"The Power of Black Music" In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Northwestern Community Ensemble
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by NCE 50th Anniversary Planning Committee
“The Power of Black Music” lecture by Dr. Alisha Lola Jones, Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, is...
Apr
5
2021
Presentation by Chenxing Han
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Presentation by Chenxing Han, a Bay Area–based writer whose publications have appeared in Buddhadharma, Journal of Global Buddhism, Lion’s Roar,...
Mar
31
2021
Natalie Avalos and Dawa Lokyitsang: Decolonizing Buddhist Studies Roundtable
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Natalie Avalos is an assistant professor in the Ethnic Studies department at University of Colorado Boulder. She is an ethnographer...
Mar
12
2021
Graduate-Faculty Colloquium with Lily Stewart
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
"From the Dangerous to the Divine: Leprosy as Exemplarity in Hagiography and Exempla.", presented by Lily Stewart, a doctoral student...
Mar
10
2021
Lived Black Religion: Ethnographic Reflections on Religion, Race, and Politics in Contemporary Jamaica
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Dr. Kijan Bloomfield, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College. Abstract: In this presentation, Dr. Bloomfield will discuss...
Mar
4
2021
Gods of the Flesh: Black Atlantic Religion-Making in Jim Crow New Orleans
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Ahmad Greene-Hayes, a doctoral candidate in Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. Abstract: This lecture will examine...
Mar
2
2021
Graduate-Faculty Colloquium with Nisheeta Jagtiani
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, sponsored by Religious Studies Graduate Students Events
Nisheeta will present chapter one of her disseration, which examines the state of sectarianism and how rimé is understood among...
Feb
26
2021
(NARW) Presentation Presentation by Aram Sarkisian
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Feb
24
2021
Amy Langenberg: “On Reading Buddhist Vinaya: Feminist History, Hermeneutics, and Translating Women's Bodies"
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Amy Paris Langenberg is an associate professor in the Religious Studies Department at Eckerd College. She is a specialist in...
Feb
16
2021
Biblical Tourism, Sensory Choreography, & the Power of Entertainment
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presented by James S. Bielo, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Miami University James S. Bielo is the author of four books,...
Feb
5
2021
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche: “Reflections on the Study and Practice of Buddhist Traditions”
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
The present Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, Thubten Chökyi Gyamtso, was born in 1961 in eastern Bhutan. He was recognized as...
Jan
29
2021
(NARW) Presentation by Dr. Gema Kloppe-Santamaría
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
We are excited to welcome a new member to NARW! Dr. Gema Kloppe-Santamaría (Loyola University, Dept. of History) will be...
Jan
27
2021
Associate Professor Sarah Jacoby “Buddhist Technologies of Sexuality: Perspectives from Tibetan Texts"
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series
Sarah H. Jacoby is an associate professor in the Religious Studies Department at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She specializes...
Jan
12
2021
Race and Religion: A Conversation About Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of our Discontents.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Race and Religion: A Conversation About Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of our Discontents. Panelists: Nitasha Sharma (Associate Professor of African American...
Dec
8
2020
Wearing the Niqab (Islamic face veil) in the UK and the US: Women's negotiations of intersecting Islamophobia, racism, and sexism.
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presentation by Dr. Anna Piela, a Visiting Scholar of Gender and Islam, on her new book, "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim...
Nov
30
2020
Race and Blackness in Middle East Studies: A MENA Conversation
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This event is free and open to everyone, but registration is required: bit.ly/race-middle-east-studies Participants Mandana Limbert is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens...
Nov
12
2020
Religious Studies Undergraduate Virtual Event
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Join us for undergraduate virtual “game night”, find out more about our winter courses and just take a break! Contact...
Nov
12
2020
Current Trends and Future Directions in Buddhist Studies: a conversation between John Kieschnick and Kevin Buckelew.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Panel Discussion with John Kieschnick, The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies (Stanford University) and Kevin Buckelew,...
Oct
30
2020
(NARW) Nathan Ellstrand, dissertation chapter: "The Spread of Sinarquismo and Fear of Fascism, 1936-1940"
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Sep
25
2020
(NARW) Nicole Kirk, book draft: "A Menagerie, A Minister, and the Circus: American Religion on the Move"
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
Sep
3
2020
Religious Studies Virtual Academic Direction Fair
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Come join us to learn about the Religious Studies department and play a Kahoot trivia game about religion! We’ve got a...
Sep
2
2020
Religious Studies Virtual Academic Direction Fair
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Come join us to learn about the Religious Studies department and play a Kahoot trivia game about religion! We’ve got a...
Jun
16
2020
Religious Studies End of Year Awards & Graduation Virtual Celebration!
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Religious Studies End of Year Awards & Graduation Virtual Celebration!
Jun
5
2020
(NARW) Marlon Millner, dissertation prospectus: "Without the Body, Within the Flesh – Blackness, Biopolitics, Spirit Baptism, and the Exilic Afterlife of Pentecostalism"
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by North American Religions Workshop (NARW)
NARW is an interdisciplinary workshop for Chicago-area students and faculty working in and alongside the field of North American Religions.
May
19
2020
Lecture by Prof. Natalie Avalos
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...
May
11
2020
Lecture by Prof. Marwan M. Kraidy
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...