Search

Harvard Divinity School hosted a discussion on May 7 featuring some of Harvard's top scholars on religious conflict and interfaith peace-building in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. Christopher Lydon, award-winning journalist and host of Radio...

The opening keynote address of the " Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture" conference was delivered by Nigel Savage, president and CEO of Hazon. Read ' Recalling The Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture' Listen iTunes SoundCloud

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne discusses religion's changing role in politics and the 2016 elections. Read ‘ Pope Francis, Trump, and Religion’s Role in American Politics’ Listen iTunes Soundcloud

HDS Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West delivered the 2017 Convocation address "Spiritual Blackout, Imperial Meltdown, Prophetic Fightback," on August 29, 2017. You can read a recap of the Convocation ceremony and Professor West's...

Writer and rights advocate Suzan Shown Harjo, a Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee and President of the Morning Star Institute, gave the annual Dudleian Lecture at Harvard Divinity School on April 17, 2014.

The fall 2018 Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture was delivered by Alfredo López Austin, Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Anthropological Research, at Mexico’s National Autonomous University on October 9.

Professor Alexander Samely (University of Manchester) discusses new tools in analyzing ancient Jewish texts, including a database of comparative profiles of ancient Jewish texts.

On April 22, 2014, Harvard Divinity School hosted an interactive workshop on Cherrie L. Moraga's play "New Fire: To Put Things Right Again." David Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, introduced the program and playwright...

Considerable attention has been directed to the possibility of a technological singularity when artificial intelligences “wake up” and start acting in their own self-interest. Long before then, however, humanity will confront an ethical singularity—a...

How do our views of land and landscape influence our religious imagination, and vice versa? On September 13, the Center for the Study of World Religions hosted its opening event of the 2017–18 academic year, "Barren Landscapes and Open Spaces." The...

On Thursday, November 14, 2019, Kerry M. Sonia, WSRP Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Hebrew Bible, gave the lecture, “Like a Woman in Labor: The Ritual and Social Dimensions of Childbirth in the Hebrew Bible and...

This presentation reviewed a series of studies investigating the effects of psilocybin administered to carefully screened and psychologically prepared volunteers who were encouraged to close their eyes and direct their attention inwards. Under such...