Past Events
Video: Tunisia's Jihadists After 2011
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. The lecture is part of the Junior Fellowship series, "Authority and Meaning: Islam...
Video: Towards a Muslim Poetics of Nature
Professor Mohammed Rustom explores the question of Islam and nature in a lecture from the Junior Fellowship series "Religion and Nature."
Video: Stendahl Symposium: Conversations Across Religious Boundaries
In this year's Stendahl Symposium, four Harvard Divinity School students present their papers centered around the broad topic of "conversations across religious boundaries." The Stendahl Symposium has become an annual HDS tradition in memory of former...
Video: The Metaphysics of Ecology: What Makes Our Environment Worthy of Care
Professor Caner Dagli, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, delivered a lecture as part of the Junior Fellowship Series "Religion and Nature" at the Center for the Study of World Religions. The Metaphysics of Ecology...
Video: The Awakening of Muslim Democracy
Professor Jocelyne Cesari discussed her new book, The Awakening of Muslim Democracy, with two respondents.
Video: "Would You Impugn My Justice?"
Joel S. Kaminsky, Professor of Religion and Morningstar Family Professor in Jewish Studies at Smith College, delivers the 2015 Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture. Much recent scholarship has portrayed the book of Job as sweeping away an...
Video: Written Religion: Some New Avenues in Analyzing Ancient Jewish Texts
Professor Alexander Samely (University of Manchester) discusses new tools in analyzing ancient Jewish texts, including a database of comparative profiles of ancient Jewish texts.
Video: Light on Yoga – in America: On the Legacy of BKS Iyengar
A panel was held on October 20 in honor of the passing of BKS Iyengar, considered to have been one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world. Panelists included scholars and friends of Iyengar: Stephanie Corigliano, PhD candidate, comparative theology...
Video: Logic of Thinking, Logic of Engagement: Chan/Sŏn Buddhism in the Life-World
Professor Jin Y. Park, Associate Professor and Director of the Asian Studies Program at American University, delivered the 2014 Ahnkook Lecture on Korean Buddhism. Chan/Sŏn Buddhism has been criticized for its seeming lack of social engagement. In this...
Video: 2014 Dana McLean Greeley Lecture for Peace and Social Justice
"Refiguring American Jewish Identity through Solidarity with Palestinians: A Relational Approach to Religious Innovation" by Atalia Omer, Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and Society and Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict and...
Video: To Speak or Not to Speak
Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, a panel of HDS professors explores tensions and creative possibilities professors face in the role of public intellectuals. The panel, moderated by Francis X. Clooney, S.J...
Video: Seeing Hindu 'Idols'
In a feature produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Hindu priest Jayant Bapat, Hinduism teacher Mangalam Vasan, and Tamil scholar Balam Lakshmanan visit an early nineteenth century album of Hindu deities in the National Gallery of Victoria...
Video: Comparative Natural Theology
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...
Video: 2014 Stendahl Symposium
On April 7, 2014, Harvard Divinity School held its annual Stendahl Symposium. HDS student participants included Meghan Guidry, Lucia Hulsether, Molly Moses, Michael Woolf, and Katelynn E. Carver. The Reverend Janet Cooper Nelson, Chaplain of Brown...
Video: Religion and Social Welfare—How Faith-State Partnerships Can Save the World
On April 7, 2014, the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School hosted a talk on Religion and Social Welfare. The speakers were Fr. Bryan Hehir, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life...
Video: Religion Across the Disciplines
The 2014 CSWR annual spring conference 'Studying Religion Across the Disciplines' took place on March 27-29, 2014. The conference aimed to foster a lasting conversation among scholars studying religion across the disciplines of the humanities, social...
Video: Divine Law—A Tale of Two Concepts and Three Responses
On March 3, 2014, Christine Hayes, Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University, was a featured speaker at the Center for the Study of World Religions.
Video: Finding Altruism in China—The Confucian Corpus and the Quest for Universal Benevolence
On February 25, 2014, the CSWR sponsored this discussion on altruism in China. The speakers were: Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Chair, Department of East Asian Languages & Culture at the University of California, Berkeley; Michael Puitt, Acting Director, The...
Video: Faith-Based Community Organizing—How Working with the Religious Other Can Save the World
On February 19, 2014, the Center for the Study of World Religions sponsored a panel discussion about faith-based community organizing in different faith traditions. The speakers were Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School; Yusufi Vali...
Video: Mountain Monasteries and Metropolitan Meditation Centers—A Century of Buddhist Propaganda in Modern Korea
On February 10, 2014, Mark Nathan, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Buffalo, was a guest speaker at the Center for the Study of World Religions. Professor Nathan spoke about Buddhist propaganda in modern Korea.
