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2002-2003 Calendar of Events

Clash of Civilizations or an Islamic Revolution?: Indonesia, 9/11 and the Politics of Contemporary Islam

ROBERT W. HEFNER
Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Associate Director, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University
Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Woodruff Library, Jones Room

Presented by Emory's Institute for Comparative and International Studies' Vernacular Modernities Speakers Series. Co-sponsored by: Development Studies Seminar, Department of Religion, Department of Anthropology, Asian Studies, and the Hightower Lecture Fund. For more information, contact Juana Clem McGhee, 404-727-6959

Finding Christianity in the Quarrels Over Same-Sex Unions
Decalogue Lecture

MARK JORDAN, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Relgion
Wednesday, Sept 18, 2002
12:15 - 2:00 PM
Tull Auditorium, Emory University School of Law

This is a presentation of the Fall 2002 Lecture Series of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion and the Law and Religion Program. It is supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. For more information, visit the CISR Web site or call 404-712-8710.

Clash of Civilizations or an Islamic Revolution?
One in a series of Religion Dept. Faculty Presentations.

RICHARD C. MARTIN, Professor
Wed, Oct 9, 2002
3:00 PM
Callaway Center S221

 

The Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits
A public talk, slide show and poetry reading.

BILL PORTER, aka RED PINE
Mon, Oct 28, 2002
7:00 - 9:00 PM
White Hall 102

Bill Porter is an award-winning poet, translator and cultural commentator. He has written and produced hundreds of programs on Chinese culture and religion broadcast in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. His books include: Road to Heaven; and under the name of Red Pine: a new translation of The Diamond Sutra from the Sanskrit and Chinese, The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse, and The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma. Sponsored by Emory's Graduate Division of Religion and Department of Religion. For more information, contact Pescha Penso: 404-727-6333.

Urban Place: Reconnections with the Natural World
Department of Anthropology Mini-Symposium

Thurs & Fri, Nov 7 & 8, 2002
Jones Room, Woodruff Library third floor

The Symposium is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Gustafson Seminar, the Department of Religion, and the Hightower Fund. For more information, contact Dee Shriver at 404-727-4130, or to see a flyer with more information (in PDF format), click here.

A Poetry Reading in celebration of the publication of The Gossamer Wall: Poems in Witness to the Holocaust (Time Being Books, 2002)

MICHEAL O'SIADHAIL, award-winning Irish poet, reading from new and collected work
Wed., Nov. 13, 2002
7:30 PM
The Jones Room,Woodruff Library, Emory University

Books will be available. Sponsored by the Program in Creative Writing, the English Department, the Poetry Council, the W. B. Yeats Foundation, the Department of Religion, and the Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. For more information, call 404-727-5177.

Working Group on Religion & Conflict

Don Seeman, Hebrew University and Harvard Medical School
Fri., Dec. 6, 2002
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Callaway Center S221

Don Seeman will be the guest speaker for the regular meeting of the Department of Religion's Working Group on Religion and Conflict. He will focus on strategies of reading Jewish texts which are part of the phenomenon of mysticism and religious violence. Seeman is currently a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. He was a Wexner Graduate Fellow in Jewish Studies at Harvard University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1997. For more information, call 404-727-7596.

A Gaian* Harmony of the Nonviolent Gods
One in a series of Religion Dept. Faculty Presentations.

THEE SMITH, Associate Professor
Wed, Dec 11, 2002
3:00 PM
Callaway Center S221

A presentation from the work-in-progress by Thee Smith, After Violence: Futuring Victim-Free Society. For more information, click here for flyer or contact the Religion Department office at 404-727-7566. Readings for advance preparation are available in the office or by clicking here (PDF document opens in new window).

*Gaia \jee'-uh\: known as Earth or Mother Earth (the Greek common noun for "land" is ge or ga). She was an early earth goddess. [from Encyclopedia Mythica]

Orisha Traditions in Trinidad: The African Dynamic in an Eastern Caribbean Religion
One in a series of Religion Dept. Faculty Presentations.

DIANNE M. STEWART, Assistant Professor
Wed, Feb 19, 2003
3:00 PM
Callaway Center S221

For more than a century Orisha devotees have preserved the memory of Africa in Trinidadian popular thought and culture. Women have emerged as leaders in this endeavor, using ancient African ideals to create new sources of religious meaning and new paradigms of authority within their tradition. Dianne Stewart is Assistant Professor of African-Caribbean and African-American Religions, Emory University.

Brown Bag Lunch Lecture

IVAN STRENSKI
Thursday, Feb 20, 2003
12-2 PM
Callaway Center S221

Ivan Strenski is Professor and Holstein Endowed Chairholder at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). He previously taught at UC Santa Barbara and Connecticut College. He has studied and traveled extensively in Europe, Mexico and South Asia, and has maintained close contact with scholars in those regions of the world. Although a US native, he took his BA from the University of Toronto and his PhD from the University of Birmingham (England). He has hosted conferences at UCR on migration and religion in Europe and the United States, and is one of the founders of a research team made up of scholars from Southern California devoted to the subject of “LA: Religion in the World City.” Among his most recent enterprises is the formation of an international group of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic concentrating on the implications of the work of the great French sociologist of religion, Emile Durkheim. He is the author of Durkheim and the Jews of France (1997) and Religion in Relation: Method, Application and Moral Location (1993).

 

When the World Becomes Female: A South Indian Goddess Tradition
One in a series of Religion Dept. Faculty Presentations.

JOYCE FLUECKIGER, Associate Professor
Wed, Apr 23, 2003
3:00 PM
Callaway Center S101

For the week-long festival of the goddess Gangamma, the goddess proliferates through a wide range of guises, whereby the streets of Tirupati are quite literally feminized. We get a hint at the gendered understandings and experiences of the goddess by looking at the repertoire of festival guising/masking. This repertoire of practices suggests that guising is primarily a process of recognition: recognition by the goddess of her true self, recognition of males as female, recognition of women as (sharing in the nature of) the goddess, and in this festival world, recognition of ultimate reality as female.

Working Group on Religion & Conflict

SEAN BYRNE and MERIDITH GOULD:
Conflict Analysis & Peacebuilding in Protracted Ethnopolitical Conflicts (With a Note on the Role of Religion)
Friday, April 25, 2003
2:00 PM
Callaway Center S221

Sean Byrne (Nova Southeastern University) and Meridith Gould will be the guest presenters for the regular meeting of the Department of Religion's Working Group on Religion and Conflict. For more information, click here for the event flyer in pdf format (opens in a new window).

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