Ingersoll Lecture

Atul Gawande talks about the limits of "being mortal" with Harvard Divinity School Dean David Hempton at the School's annual Ingersoll Lecture and Convocation.

Albert J. Raboteau, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion at Princeton University, delivered the 2010 Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality on November 4, 2010, on the HDS campus. Raboteau is a specialist in American religious history. His research and...

Terry Tempest Williams, the 2017–18 Writer-in-Residence at Harvard Divinity School, delivers the 2018 Ingersoll Lecture. She has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A...

Ahead of the 2014 Ingersoll Lecture, "Feeding Moloch: The Sacrifice of Children on the Altar of Capitalism," Russell Banks and a panel discuss his work. With Russell Banks, Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at HDS...

"We have unknowingly sacrificed our children in order to feed Moloch," said author Russell Banks, describing Moloch—a Levantine god to whom children were sacrificed—as "god of capitalism." Considered one of America's most important fiction writers, Banks...

Ahead of the 2014 Ingersoll Lecture by Russell Banks, John Stauffer, Professor of English and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, explores Bank’s novel, Cloudsplitter, and the history of John Brown. Welcome and...

This fall, Harvard Divinity School brings Russell Banks, one of the United States' most celebrated writers of contemporary fiction, to Harvard to deliver the annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality. The talk will take place on Wednesday, November 5, at 5...

Karen Armstrong, author of The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness and A History of God, delivered the 2005 Ingersoll Lecture on November 10, 2005.

This annual endowed lecture was presented on November 3, 2011, by Robert Desjarlais, Alice Stone Ilchman Chair in Comparative and International Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College. The title of the lecture was "Cessation and...

At the annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality, Robert Desjarlais elaborated on the beliefs of Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists.