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The South Asian Religions Colloquium (SARC) seeks to share ongoing, current scholarly research on topics in South Asian religions with Harvard students and faculty as well as the wider Boston academic community. This event features speaker James Mallinson...

Based on personal study and experience, Anne Waldman speaks on the refuge and Bodhisattva vows, the Six Realms of Existence, “co-emergent wisdom” and a parallel vow to poetry, and the joys and contradictions therein. She integrates her own poetry...

How do you measure and govern for happiness? On April 13, 2019, an international conference of academics, practitioners, politicians, corporate leaders and spiritual leaders at the Harvard Divinity School sought answers to the question of universal...

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...

Michael Marder discusses the paradox of “excessive heat” that, on the one hand, signals the ardency of faith and the love of God and, on the other, the effect of sin configured as ariditas (dryness), undoing viriditas (the greening green, a self...

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...

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...

The 2018 Peter J. Gomes STB '68 Memorial honorees speak for the final installment of this year’s Divinity Dialogues. The panelists were: Robert Michael Franklin, MDiv '78; Jalane D. Schmidt, MDiv '96, AM '05, PhD '05; Simran Jeet Singh, MTS '08; Karen I...

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...

HDS students Jiaying Ding, Sally Fritsche, and Chandra Plowden deliver sermons for the Billings Preaching Prize Competition during Noon Service on April 12, 2017. The annual preaching competition is open to second- and third-year MDiv students. In...

In the first installment of the 2017–18 Divinity Dialogues series, graduates Willie Bodrick II, MDiv ’14; Tracy Howe Wispelwey, MDiv ’12; and Jalane Schmidt, MDiv '96, AM ’05, PhD ’05, shared reflections on their activism related to the August 12 events...

The conference focused on resiliency practices upheld by seasoned chaplains from the major fields of chaplaincy. ​Dr. Frank Rogers delivers the keynote for “Cultivating Resilience Through the Peaks and Valleys of Chaplaincy” conference. Rogers is the...