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Filmmaker Artemis Joukowsky, HDS professor Kevin Madigan, Amber Moulton of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, and Sana Mustafa, an activist and Syrian refugee discuss Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War and place the Sharps’ efforts in a larger...

Congratulations to the class of 2016, who received their diplomas during the HDS Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 26, 2016. Erez Golan, MTS ’16, was selected by his peers to deliver the student address. Read the full text of Golan's remarks. Listen iTunes...

Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and associate dean for faculty and academic affairs, discusses her recent publication, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. Listen iTunes SoundCloud

Richard A. Grounds, PhD, explores the appropriate responses for social justice and the case for reparations for Native American languages. Grounds delivered the Dana McLean Greeley Lecture for Peace and Social Justice at the Center for the Study of World...

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...

Congratulations to the class of 2015, who received their diplomas during the HDS Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 28, 2015. Melissa Bartholomew, MDiv '15, was selected by her peers to deliver the student address. You can read the full text of it here.

Wesley J. Wildman, Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at Boston University, presented the second and final comparative theology lecture of the 2013–14 academic year at the Center for Study of World Religions. Traditional natural theology...

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...

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...

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...

How do journalists cover religion? What makes for good religion reporting? What do journalists need to know about religion to do their job? A symposium on December 8 and 9, 2016, at Harvard Divinity School brought together some of the nation's leading...

Aaron Zelin explores why jihadism grew so rapidly in Tunisia after the uprisings in 2011 in a lecture on April 27, 2015 at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. The lecture is part of the Junior Fellowship series,...