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2001-2002 Calendar of Events

September 14-December 31, 2001
This multimedia exhibition at Woodruff Library's Schatten Gallery presents, in photographs and video, trips taken earlier this year to India by several Emory faculty members and students. The traveler/photographers included Religion professors Paul Courtright, Tara Doyle, Joyce Flueckiger, and Laurie Patton. Paul Courtright shot video documenting Indian spiritual practices. The Third Eye runs Sept. 14-Dec. 31. There is an opening reception on Sun., Sept. 16, from 4:00-6:00 PM in the Jones Room. For Schatten Gallery hours, visit their Web site or call 404-727-6868.

 

Dancing Flesh: slide lecture by Sam Gill, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2001
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Callaway Memorial Center, Room S319

Dancing Flesh draws inspiration from Javanese shadow play and classical dancing to help apply Merleau-Ponty’s “flesh ontology” to move towards a theory of dancing—one that works better with dance as a comparative category for broad cultural studies and one that helps us see something about ourselves as humans.

Militant Buddhists: Dalit Panthers and the "Angry Young Men"
One in a series of Religion Dept. Faculty Presentations.

TARA DOYLE, Lecturer in Religion and Asian Studies and Director of the Tibetan Studies Program in India
Wed, Oct 10, 2001
3:00 PM
Callaway Center S221

A talk by Tara Doyle on a group of ex-untouchable Buddhist converts living in Maharastra, India, who have advocated both violent and non-violent responses to caste exploitation and violence. Doyle will focus particularly on poet activists and other artists within this group.

Catholicism and Buddhism: Missionary Encounters

ERIC REINDERS
Department of Religion, Emory University
Thursday, October 11, 2001
4:00 p.m.
White Hall 103
Speaker Series: Christianity and Buddhism,Sponsored by the Aquinas Center & the Department of Religion, Emory University

The Religion Department's Working Group on Religion & Conflict presents
A Forum on Religion and Violence

Wednesday, October 24, 2001
7-10 pm
Winship Ballroom, Dobbs University Center
(light refreshments will be served)

moderated by Dean Robert Paul with panelists: Rabbi Leila Berner, Congregation Bet Mishpachah (D.C.) and George Washington University; Prof. Michael Berger, Emory University; Prof./Rev. Mary Elizabeth Moore, Candler School of Theology; Prof./Rev. Thee Smith, Emory University; Prof. Richard Martin, Emory University; Prof. Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University; Imam Ibrahim Pasha, Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam

 

Toward a Properly Christian Understanding of Buddhism

PAUL J. GRIFFITHS
Schmitt Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
Thursday, October 25, 2001
8:00 p.m.
White Hall 110
Speaker Series: Christianity and Buddhism,Sponsored by the Aquinas Center & the Department of Religion, Emory University

Abandoning the Lunar View: A Mahayana Philosophy of Religions for Christians in a Diverse World

JOHN P. KEENAN
Professor of Religion, Middlebury College
Thursday, November 8, 2001
8:00 p.m.
White Hall 112
Speaker Series: Christianity and Buddhism,Sponsored by the Aquinas Center & the Department of Religion, Emory University

From Apartheid to Democracy: Islam and Politics in South Africa

DR. URSULA GUNTHER
Tuesday, November 27, 2001
4:30 p.m.
Callaway S221

Dr. Ursula Gunther is a researcher at the University of Hamburg on a project titled "Islam and Revolution in South Africa," and a lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies is from the University of Hamburg (2000). She has published in German and English on Mohammad Arkoun's modernist interpretations and constructions of Islam, Islamic feminism, fundamentalism, and the influence of Islam in South Africa today. Sponsored by the Institute for African Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, the Religion Department, the Graduate Division of Religion, and the Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS).

 

Resistance at The My Lai Massacre

HUGH THOMPSON , winner of the Soldier's Medal for heroism above and beyond the call of duty Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:30 p.m. Goizueta Business School, room 231 followed by reception and book signing at 6:00 p.m., room 500

Hugh Thompson is the helicopter pilot from Stone Mountain who, while flying over My Lai in Vietnam, saw the massacre taking place. He set his helicopter down and rescued, at gunpoint, several Vietnamese civilians. Then he radioed what was happening to headquarters which, eventually, called off the operation. 502 people were killed; the three day plan would have eliminated about 10,000. This event is sponsored by the Goizueta Business School, The Emory School of Law, The Office of the Chaplain, The Jewish Studies Enrichment Fund, The Department of Religion, and The Violence Studies Program.

 

Ursula Gunther: Coffee Hour with Graduate Students

DR. URSULA GUNTHER
Wednesday, November 28, 2001
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Callaway S221

Dr. Gunther will discuss her work on Muslim feminists (in particular, Fatima Mernissi's Muslim feminist social criticism) and her work on the French Muslim modernist, Mohammad Arkoun. (Also see her lecture on Nov. 27)

Mark Juergensmeyer: "Terror in the Mind of God"

Thursday, December 6, 2001
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Tull Auditorium, Gambrell Hall, School of Law

Halle Institute for Global Learning Guest Speaker Series,
co-sponsored by the Department of Religion and Asian Studies
For more info: Peter Wakefield, 404-727-7504.

 

Between Eden and Armageddon: the Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking

MARC GOPIN
Responding: David Blumenthal and Thee Smith
Friday, Dec. 7, 2001
2:00 pm
Callaway Center S319

Learn on Shabbat with Marc Gopin on the topic "Jewish Source Texts for Negotiation and Peacemaking"

Saturday, Dec. 8, 2001
2:00 pm
Harris Hall Parlor (1340 Clifton Road)

Marc Gopin, the author of Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking (Oxford University Press: 2000) is a consultant and trainer in conflict resolution. He is a visiting associate professor of International Diplomacy at the Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University and a Senior Researcher in its Institute for Human Security. He has engaged in dialogue with leading international religious figures and government leaders, and spoken extensively on conflict resolution around the globe. In 1993, he received his Ph.D. in Ethics from Brandeis University and the Nachum Glatzer Prize for Excellence in Jewish Scholarship for his dissertation on Samuel David Luzzatto’s Moral Sense Theory. His book Holy War, Holy Peace (Oxford University Press) will be available in March 2002.

After the Verdict: Academic Responses to Irving v. Lipstadt
One in a series of Religion Dept. Faculty Presentations.

DEBORAH LIPSTADT
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2001
3:00 PM
Callaway Center S221

 

Inter-Religious Conflict in the Name of God

JAMES CARROLL, author of Constantine's Sword
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2002
9:00 PM
Carlos Museum Auditorium

A conversation with author James Carroll. Panelists include Phillip Reynolds, Candler School of Theology; and Rabbi Alvin Sugarman, The Temple. Sponsored by the Center for Ethics, the Aquinas Center, and the Department of Religion. For more information, please contact Chance Hunter at (404) 727-1179.

 

Power in the Blood: Interpreting Ritual Blood Manipulation in the Hebrew Bible
One in a series of Religion Dept. Faculty Presentations.

WILLIAM GILDERS
An exploration of the problems involved in dealing with textual representations of cultic practice. Prof. Gilders will address theoretical and methodological questions by means of a specific case example, the covenant ritual represented in Exodus 24:3-8.

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2002
3:00 PM
Callaway Center S221

Competing Jihads: War & The Religious Imagination
Seminar with Mark Juergensmeyer
Sponsored by the Religion Department with generous support from The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, the Graduate Division of Religion and the Hightower Fund

Monday & Tuesday, March 25 & 26, 2002
Seminar from 7-10 pm in WH 200
For more information, contact the Religion Dept., 404-727-7566

Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology and Director of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Terror in the Mind of God The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, 2000) and The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State (California, 1993).

 

Annual Luncheon for Religion Students and Theta Alpha Kappa Induction with Special Guest Speaker Catherine Wessinger

Friday, April 5, 2002
12 noon
Harris Hall Parlor
(Religion majors and minors should RSVP by March 29 to Anny Varghese)

Catherine Wessinger is Professor of the History of Religions and Women's Studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, who studies religious conflict, women and religion, and new religious movements. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa (School of Religion, 1985) and a B.F.A. from the University of South Carolina (1974).

 

Religion Department's Working Group on Religion & Conflict presents Catherine Wessinger, "Teaching about New Religious Movements and Conflict"

CATHERINE WESSINGER, Professor of the History of Religions and Women's Studies, Loyola University
Friday, April 5, 2002
2:00 pm
Callaway Center S221

 

Media and the Teaching of Religion: Notes from the Field and the Classroom

PAUL COURTRIGHT
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
4:00 PM
Emory Center For Interactive Teaching
2nd fl Woodruff Library

A workshop for Religion Department faculty.

 

Mark Jordan, "St. Thomas and the Police"
One in a series of Religion Dept. Faculty Presentations.

Wednesday, April 17, 2002
3:00 PM
Callaway Center S221

Thomas Aquinas’s texts have been quoted regularly by the police of various regimes. We want to ask whether Thomas ought to have done a better job of forestalling such an abuse of his texts. But we need to ask first how we can recover texts so regularly abused for criminal purposes. To wish for a reading of Thomas without the police is to want a reading beyond the authority that “Thomisms,” even the most benign, must construct around him. Mark Jordan is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion.

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