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For Professor Anne Monius, an early field trip led to a lifelong love of learning.

This talk contradicts the longstanding reading of Emerson as invested in idealism and instead charts his obsession with matter both organic and inorganic, organized and unorganized. By attending to his interest in sciences of life, Branka Arsić...

“If something is not healthy, we are moving on until we find a product that is,” said Ralph DeFlorio, HDS's director of operations.

In an interview with the Public Health Post, HDS Visiting Professor Cornell William Brooks talks about his career in activism and the fight for social justice.

HDS faculty and friends remembered Professor Anne E. Monius during a memorial service on October 11, 2019. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, passed away on August 3, 2019. FULL TRANSCRIPT: [INDIAN MUSIC PLAYING] Good...

Shane Snowdon, MDiv candidate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on October 25, 2019.

What would it look like if we didn’t put human beings at the center of creation? That’s the question that Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies Janet Gyatso explores with her students in “Knowing Animals” and “Forms of Life,” two HDS courses that...

Alicia Izharuddin (University of Malaya), Visiting Senior Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islam, gives a lecture entitled “‘Bureaucratic Islam and the Romance Industry in Southeast Asia.”

Hindu monastics bring Vedanta to HDS and gain new perspectives on their tradition—and others Just like any student at Harvard, Swami Sarvapriyananda had dreams about what he would do when he grew up. As he sat in a classroom in Rockefeller Hall on Harvard...

Terry Tempest Williams, HDS’s writer-in-residence, and film producer Geralyn White Dreyfous have curated a special film series that is open to the Harvard community as well as the general public, and includes the chance for audience members to engage in...

A few years ago, Harvard President Drew Faust commissioned a University-wide Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. The presidential charge delivered to the committee, under the title “From Diversity to Belonging,” states that: “ A community that draws on...

"John Samuel Mbiti will be remembered as a preeminent African scholar whose endeavors are unparalleled in the academy and worthy of the highest regard. The world is truly poorer with him gone," writes HDS Professor Jacob Olupona.