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2007-2008 Calendar of Events

For information on the 2007 visit of the Dalai Lama, please visit: http://dalailama.emory.edu/. Video archives of the events are now available to view at:
http://www.emory.edu/dalai_lama.cfm

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Fall 2007 events

Tibetan Film Festival

Sept 12 - Oct. 17, 2007
Wednesday Nights 8 pm
White Hall 205

In honor of HH the Dalai Lama's visit, South Asia Studies & Film Studies present this film festival. Department of Religion is one of the co-sponsors. For more information, visit: http://www.filmstudies.emory.edu/

Michael Zogry: "Wide Open Spaces: The Trail of Tears, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and Gaps in the National Memory"

Thurs, Oct. 4, 2007, 4 pm
Callaway S221

Michael J. Zogry is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of First Nations, or Native American religions; religions of America; and theory and method in the study of ritual. His lecture will be excerpted from a chapter in Richard Callahan, ed., New Territory, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase (forthcoming, University of Missouri Press, 2008). For more information, contact the Department of Religion, 404-727-7596. (For a flyer in pdf format, click here.)

Michael J. Walsh: "The Intimate Religious Life of the Nation: Visions of China in Colonial Missions"

Fri, Oct. 12, 2007, 12 noon
White Hall 200

Michael J. Walsh (B.A., University of Cape Town; M.A.; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is Assistant Professor of Religion at Vassar College and teaches in the areas of East Asian religions, and method and theory in the study of religion. He is particularly interested in Chinese Buddhist history, monastic economics, cultural geography, sacred space, and social theory. His current book project is entitled Religious Economies: Monasticism and Territoriality in Pre-Modern Buddhist China.

This talk is co-sponsored by East Asian Studies. For more information, contact the Department of Religion, 404-727-7596. (For a flyer in pdf format, click here.)

Techung: Tibetan singer/songwriter

Fri, October 19, 2007, 7:30pm
Carlos Museum Reception Hall
Tickets are free, but required, and available for pick up in the Office of Educational Programs at the Carlos Museum, Monday-Friday from 8:30 am - 5 pm.

Techung will be joined by musicians Sonam Lhamo, Tsering Phuntsok, and Tenzin Kalsang. Co-Sponsors:  Students for a Free Tibet, Hightower Family fund, Carlos Museum, CIPA, Music Dept, East Asian Studies Program, and Religion Department. For more information, contact Asian Studies at 404-727-2108.

Vist by H.H. The Dalai Lama

Oct 20-22, 2007
For more information, go to: http://dalailama.emory.edu/

Sudhir Kakar:
Gandhi and the Art of Heroic Spirituality

Mon, Nov. 5, 2007, 8 pm
White Hall 206
Lecture followed by book signing and reception

Sudhir Kakar is an internationally renowned psychoanalyst and writer. His non-fiction books include The Inner World: A Psychoanalytical Study of Childhood and Society in India; Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality; The Analyst and the Mystic; The Colours of Violence; and The Indians: Portrait of a People. He is the author of four novels: The Ascetic of Desire; Ecstasy; Mira and the Mahatma; and the forthcoming The Seeker. He translated, with Wendy Doniger, Vatsyana’s Kamasutra.

He has the received Germany’s Goethe Medal, Columbia University’s Kardiner Award, and the Boyer Prize of the American Anthropological Association. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Chicago, Harvard, the University of Vienna, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Since 1994, he is Adjunct Professor of Leadership at INSEAD in Fontainbleau, France.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division of Religion, the Hightower Fund, the Halle Institute, Institute for Comparative and International Studies, the Psychoanalytic Studies Program, the Asian Studies Program, and the Center for International Living. For more information, contact the Department of Religion, 404-727-7596. For a flyer in pdf format, click here.

Sara McClintock: "Buddha in Paradise" Lecture

Wednesday, Nov. 14, 7 pm
Carlos Museum Reception Hall

Dr. Sara McClintock, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, gives an illustrated lecture titled "The Place of the Pure Land in the Buddhist Cosmos." This talk is in conjunction with The Michael C. Carlos Museum exhibition,"Buddha in Paradise: A Celebration in Himalayan Art" (October 13 - November 25, 2007), an exhibition in honor of the visit and professorship of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

This exhibition brings together sixteen Tibetan thangka paintings inspired by the theme of the Buddhist pure lands, or Sangyey Dakzhing. Created between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, these masterpieces reveal the artistic depth, technical excellence, and transcendental sophistication of Tibetan Buddhist painters over the centuries. The exhibition is on loan from the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, in honor of the Dalai Lama's visit to Emory..For more information, contact the Carlos Museum at 404-727-4282.

This exhibition brings together sixteen Tibetan thangka paintings inspired by the theme of the Buddhist

Elizabeth Barre: “The Possibility of Religious Liberalism: The Common Good and Civil Society in Catholic and Islamic Political Thought"

Tuesday, Nov. 27, 4 pm
Callaway S221

This talk by Elizabeth Barre of the Religion Department of Florida State University is sponsored by Emory's Departments of Religion and Political Science. For more information, please contact Dan Reiter in Emory's Political Science Department.

Spring 2008 events

Adrian Bennett: "Young J. Allen in 19th Century China: Advocate of Christianity and Western Ideas But For What End?"

Friday, Feb. 8, 2008, 12 noon
White Hall 200
Bring your lunch. Cookies & sodas provided.

Adrian Bennett is Professor Emeritus, Iowa State University, Department of History. He will discuss Young John Allen, an Emory graduate who went to China as a missionary in 1859. Allen found himself in Shanghai at a time when the church was unable to send him funds, so he supported himself by working in journalism and other secular fields in addition to preaching. His personal papers are housed at Emory and are the subject of an exhibition at Emory’s Oxford College. This talk is co-sponsored by The East Asian Studies Program. To download a flyer in pdf format, click here. For more information, call the Department of Religion at 404-727-7596.

Edward Blum: “W.E.B. DuBois, American Prophet”

Wed., Feb. 13, 2008, 12:00-1:15 pm
Rich Hall 211

Edward Blum is Assistant Professor of History at San Diego State University and author of W.E.B. DuBois, American Prophet, a religious biography of DuBois which has been recently published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Prof. Blum will lead a discussion of chapter 2 of his book. Copies are available in the History Department, 221 Bowden Hall, or through the Woodruff Library electronic reserves under HIST 000-000, Crespino Seminar. Sponsored by Emory’s Department of History and co-sponsored by the Departments of Religion, African-American Studies, the Candler School of Theology, and the Graduate Division of Religion. For more information, contact Prof. Joseph Crespino in the History Department.

Tenenbaum Lecture: Leon Wieseltier: “A Passion for Waiting: Messianism and the Jews”

Feb 21, 7:30pm.
Carlos Reception Hall

This event is sponsored by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies with a number of co-sponsors including the Department of Religion. For more nformation, visit the website at http://www.js.emory.edu/tenenbaum/tenenbaum2008.htm

Film: "Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath"

Tues., Feb. 26, 2008, 7 pm
Harland Cinema, Dobbs University Center (DUC)

A documentary film by Sharar Raju and Valarie Kaur exploring race, religion and what it means to be American in times of national crisis. Sponsored by Emory’s initiative in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding; for more information, call 404-727-2575.

Peter Lorge: “Shaolin and the Origin of Chinese Martial Arts”

Mon., March 3, 2008, 4:00 pm
White Hall 111

Emory’s Program in East Asian Studies and Department of Religion present a talk by Peter Lorge of Vanderbilt University. For more information, please contact Martha Shockey in East Asian Studies at 404-727-6280.

 

The Wrathful God: Religious Extremism in Comparative Perspective
An International Symposium

Mon-Tues, March 3-4, 2008
Carlos Museum Reception Hall

Should extremism be viewed as its own tradition, independent of the traditions of which it is normally seen as a part? What is the God of extremism? Is the God of extremism different from the God of mainstream religious traditions? A particular focus of this conference will be the perspective of critical orthodoxy as an antidote to extremist doctrines. The conference will also examine religious extremism from sociological and social-psychological perspectives. Sponsored by the Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS); Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Initiative; Candler School of Theology; Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies; Department of Religion; South Asian Studies Program; the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, and the Hightower Fund. See www.icis.emory.edu for details.

 

Tibet Week at Emory

March 17-22, 2008
Various events/venues around campus.

The Department of Religion is one of the co-sponsors. For the latest schedule of events, visit the Emory-Tibet Partnership's Tibet Week website.

Joan R. Branham: Mapping Sacrifice on Bodies, Spaces, and Art in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity  

Tues, March 18, 2008, 7:00 PM
103 White Hall

Joan R. Branham is Associate Professor of Art History, Providence College; Visiting Associate Professor of Early Christianity and Judaism and Acting Director of Women’s Studies in Religion rogram, Harvard Divinity School. This talk is sponsored by the Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies, the Program in Mediterranean Archaeology, the Department of Religion, the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory, and the American Schools of Oriental Research. For more information, call 404-727-2670.

 

DEADLINE: The William A. Beardslee Prize
in Religious Literature

Friday, March 21, 2008, Callaway S214, by 5:00 p.m.

For the best paper about religion written by an undergraduate student in an Emory College course anytime between Spring 2007 and Spring 2008. First Prize: $250.00; Second Prize $100.00. Papers may be revised before being submitted. Honors Theses are not eligible. Please put your contact information on your paper (phone, email), along with the course (and semester) for which it was written.

Submission deadline is 5:00 p.m., Fri., March 21, 2008. Please submit your entries to staff in the Religion Dept. office, Callaway Center S214.The winners will be announced in the Commencement Program at graduation and will be invited to participate in the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Students with further questions may call 404/727-7566.

William Dalrymple: “The Last Mughal:  The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857”

Sunday, April 6, 2008, 4:00 pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library

This lecture, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the South Asian Studies Program. Co-sponsored by the Hightower Family Fund, the Religion Department, Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies, and the Subalternity and Difference Program of RDI. For more information, contact the South Asian Studies Program at 404-727-2108.

Religion Majors/Minors Luncheon

Monday, April 14, 11:30 a.m.
in Cox Hall 1&2

Emory Religion majors and minors are invited to this annual event where we induct eligible new members into Theta Alpha Kappa, the national honor society of Religious Studies/Theology. You are all cordially invited and encouraged to attend. We can provide documentation to other instructors if you need to miss part of a class to attend.

The luncheon is an occasion to interact with each other and also to meet this year’s guest speakers, two of our own alumni, Nicola Rochester of Cozen O’Connor Law Firm in Atlanta and Charlie Saltalamachia, a student at Emory School of Medicine. We are honored to have the alumni majors speak and share with us how being a religion major at Emory has impacted their career since graduation.

This event is for Religion majors/minors only; rsvp to 404-727-7596 or swill29 at emory dot edu, please.

The Department of Religion Commencement Day Reception for Graduating Religion Majors and Minors, their Families and Friends

Monday, May 12, 2008, 12 noon (after commencement ceremony)
Callaway Center S221
Recognizing graduating students and department award recipients
Please R.S.V.P. (with number attending) by Friday, May 2
to the Religion Office at 404-727-7596; swill29@emory.edu.

The XVth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies

Mon-Sat, June 23-28, 2008
Emory University campus

This academic conference, held once every three to four years, is the premier international forum for scholars of Buddhism to present their findings. This year Emory University is proud to host. For more info, visit the IABS 2008 website: http://religion.emory.edu/iabs2008/

You may also be interested in the calendar of Religions and the Human Spirit, The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies calendar of events, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Department events and Asian Studies Program events.

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