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Our At-Large Lectures in Religion Series this year includes the following:

Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 4:30 pm
Madonna, Whore and Mammon: Religion, Gender and the Media
Diane Winston, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
Science and Engineering Library, Room 090
Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Studies
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 4:30 pm
Albrecht Durer and the Art of Faith on the Eve of the Reformation
Jeffrey Chipps Smith, The University of Texas at Austin
The Grand Lounge of the Faculty Club
Co-sponsored by the Department of History of Art
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 4:30 pm
"When You See Blood, It Brings Truth": Catholic Ritual and Resistance in a Time of War
Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College
The Grand Lounge of the Faculty Club
Co-sponsored by the Department of Greek and Latin
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 4:30 pm
(CANCELLED) The Role of Maturationally Natural Cognition in Science and Religion
Robert McCauley, The Center for Mind, Brain and Culture, Emory University
Location to be announced
Friday, April 16, 2010 - 4:30 pm
Prophecy and Historicity in Post-Byzantine Greece
Charles Stewart, University College, London
Location to be announced
Co-sponsored by the Modern Greek Program
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 4:30 pm
The Execution of Saddam Hussein: An Exercise in Ritual Studies
Kathryn McClymond, Department of Religious Studies, Georgia State University
The Grand Lounge of the Faculty Club
The Annual Savko Lecture

'No More Than a Page' - Informal Discussions of Faculty Research

Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 4:30 pm, University Hall, University Museum
Discussions of Faculty Research
Dale Van Kley
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 4:30 pm, Dulles Hall, Room 168
Discussions of Faculty Research
David Cressy
Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 4:30 pm, University Hall, University Museum
Discussions of Faculty Research
Paul Reitter

Previous Lectures


Previous "At Large" Lecture Series

2008/2009:

Monday, October 13, 2008 - 4:30 pm , 090 Science and Engineering Library
Closing the God Gap? Religion and Voting in 2008
Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown University
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 4:30 pm , 090 Science and Engineering Library
Weeping Statues and Bleeding Bread: Transformation Miracles in the Late Middle Ages
Caroline Bynum, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 4:30 pm , 090 Science and Engineering Library
Workshops, Shrines and 'Pagan Survivals': Remodeling the Christianization of Egypt.
David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire
Friday, February 27, 2009 - 4:30 pm , Grand Lounge of the Faculty Club
Religion in the Media: Recent Discoveries and their Public Faces
Jodi Magness and Bart Ehrman, University of North Carolina
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 4:30 pm , Science and Engineering Library, Room 090
'Religion' and the Purification of Spirits
Paul Christopher Johnson, University of Michigan
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 4:30 pm , 090 Science and Engineering Library
Building a Better Buddha
Don Lopez, University of Michigan

2007/2008:

Friday, October 5, 2007 - 4:30 pm , 010 Page Hall
The House that Really Matters: Material Culture and Religious Life in the Oronoco
Larry Sullivan, Notre Dame University
Monday, October 29, 2007 - 4:30 pm , 180 Hagerty Hall
Myths and Politics of the Chaotic
Bruce Lincoln, University of Chicago
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 4:00 pm , 54 Scott Laboratory
Myth and Advertising: Pushing the Theories Forward and Backward
Lecture by Laurie Patton

2006/2007:

Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 4:30 pm , 090 Science and Engineering Library
A Distant Mirror: The Tyranny of the Present
Susan Schreiner, University of Chicago
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 - 4:30 pm , 100 Mendenhall Laboratory
Osama bin Laden: Situating Public Enemy No. 1 between the Media and the Academy
Bruce Lawrence, Duke University
Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 4:30 pm , 090 Science and Engineering Library
Gnostics and other "Heretics": Imagining the Diversity of Early Christianity
David Brakke, Indiana University
Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 4:30 am , 010 Page Hall
Putting Women, Low Castes, and History Back into the History of Hinduism
Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago

Other Previous Lecture Series

2007/2008: Through a Glass, Darkly: Public Interest in the Occult

Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 4:30 pm , 090 Science and Engineering Library
Occulture, Popular Culture, and the Appeal of The Da Vinci Code
Christopher Partridge, Lancaster University
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - 4:30 pm , 090 Science and Engineering Library
UFOs, Conspiracy and the Occult: The Strange Journey of Sister Thedra
Michael Barkun, Syracuse University
Friday, January 25, 2008 - 4:30 pm , 090 Science and Engineering Library
A Student of Phallic Antiquities: Ida C. Craddock and the Sexual History of Religion
Leigh Eric Schmidt, Princeton University
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 4:30 pm , 090 Science and Engineering Library
The Reclamation of Paganism and the Politics of Identity in the Early 21st Century
Sabina Magliocco, California State University, Northridge
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 4:30 pm ,
Religion and the Mysterious in Prime Time: Lost, Heroes and Other Myths of the Post-9/11 Era
Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Denver

Previous 'No More Than a Page' Presentations:

2008/2009:

Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 4:30 pm , University Museum, University Hall
Discussions of Faculty Research
Daniel Avorbegdor

2007/2008:

Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 4:30 pm
Victimology
Fritz Graf, Greek and Latin
Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 4:30 pm
Is Private to Public as Household to Church?
Tina Sessa, History