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459 results for "Academic Lectures and Discussions"
459 results for "Academic Lectures and Discussions"

Video: Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration

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The Christianity, Race, and Mass Incarceration Conference gathers scholars of various disciplines, activists, organizers, and formerly incarcerated persons and places them in conversation with each other. This conference is a critical study of carceral...

Video: The Violence of Naming

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Shaun Marmon, Associate Professor of Religion at Princeton University, delivered this presentation as part of the 2012–13 colloquium series Science, Religion, and the Body. Science, Religion, and the Body will explore themes of gender and sexuality in...

Video: To Speak or Not to Speak

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Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, a panel of HDS professors explores tensions and creative possibilities professors face in the role of public intellectuals. The panel, moderated by Francis X. Clooney, S.J...

Video: The Spacetime of Dreams

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This talk examines the higher-dimensional time theories of the British aviator and writer John Dunne. Dunne developed a theory of time in which human beings transcended time and space in dreams. His views reverberated throughout popular culture in Europe...

Video: Was God a Jew? The Ecstasy of Biblical Translation

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Acclaimed expert on biblical, gnostic, and apocryphal writings, Willis Barnstone explores the question, were early Christians Pharisee Jews like Saint Paul? Barnstone is a poet and translator of ancient and modern texts. A four-time recipient of the Book...

Video: Religious Literacy and Government Symposium

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Held on December 7–8, 2017, the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative (RLPI) explored the complicated roles religions play in our nation’s multi-faceted debate over immigration, and how understanding those roles may help government agencies...

Video: Concordance: An Evening with Susan Howe

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Award-winning American poet Susan Howe visited Harvard Divinity School on April 24 to speak about the binding together of freedom and law, spontaneity and habit, as occasions for awakening a reader to the exaltation of spirit in process. Crossing the...