Past Events
Video: Don Revell, Reading and Conversation (with Intro by Stephanie Burt): Almost a Prayer: The Afterlife of Enchantment
As part of the CSWR Poetry Series, the Center hosted award-winning poet, Don Revell for the Fall 2023 Poetry Symposium, Almost a Prayer: The Afterlife of Enchantment. The symposium and Revell were introduced by literary critic, poet, and professor of...
Video: Dhamma Chakra Day: Buddhism and Emancipation of Marginalized Classes in India
The Center for the Study of World Religions was thrilled to host, along with HDS Buddhist Ministry Initiative, Dhamma Chakra Day: Buddhism and Emancipation of Marginalized Classes in India. This event was initiated by CSWR resident, Dr. Santosh Raut. This...
Video: Psychedelics and the Future of Religion: Race and Exoticism in Global Psychedelic Spirituality
As part of the Psychedelics and the Future of Religion series, the Center for the Study of World Religions hosted scholars Dr. Amanda Lucia, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California-Riverside and Dr. Arun Saldanha, Professor in the...
Video: Angela’s Symposium: YouTube, Esotericism, and the Academia
Center for the Study of World Religions hosted our first Gnoseologies series webinar of the academic year on October 18, 2023. Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani engaged in conversation with Dr. Angela Puca. In this discussion, Dr. Puca describes how she pioneers an...
Video: List Lecture in Jewish Studies: Adam Afterman: Kabbalistic Neoplatonism: Divine Emanation and Mystical Integration
Center for the Study of World Religions hosted our annual List Lecture Speaker Adam Afterman. Dr. Adam Afterman is a Professor at the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel Aviv University, specializing in Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah. He is...
Video: The Islamic Conception of Arabness, A New Reading of the Qur’ānic Discourse on the a‘rāb
Center for the Study of World Religions hosted a talk by Raashid Goyal, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen, Germany. In his talk, Goyal proposes that the term a‘rāb signified “Arabs” and not “nomads,” and that the former entity...
Video: Eranos Conference 2023, "Ideas and Influences on Eros"
Professor Charles Stang, CSWR Director delivered a lecture entitled, “Apopha sis and Angelology: Henry Corbin’s Neoplatonism” at the 2023 Eranos conference in Switzerland. “This is not merely a minor chapter in the history of ideas, but rather a case...
Video: "The Call of the Ancient: Psychedelic Pasts and Futures", Professor Charles Stang
Professor Charles Stang, CSWR Director, delivered a lecture entitled, “The Call of the Ancient: Psychedelic Pasts and Futures ” at the "Archives of the Impossible" Conference at Rice University on May 13, 2023. What is at stake in our knowing whether and...
Video: Poetry Craft Talk and Reading with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith
On Monday, May 8, 2023, CSWR Resident Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of Peripheries, Sherah Bloor hosted a Poetry Craft Talk and Reading with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Tracy K. Smith for a capacity Zoom audience. "During the Zoom lecture, Smith read aloud...
Video: Are Psychedelics Theologically Significant for Judaism?
On April 27, 2023, The Center for the Study of World Religions co-hosted this discussion with panelists Sam S. B. Shonkoff, Taube Family Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. Melila Hellner-Eshed, professor of Jewish...
Video: Multiple Subjectivities and the Ethnographic Study of Lived Religion
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - As part of the T&T Gnoseologies Series, CSWR Research Associate Giovanna Parmigiani engages in a fascinating conversation with Black Feminist ethnographer and African diaspora studies scholar, Assitant Professor N. Fadeke...
Video: New Voices in Poetry: Tawanda Mulalu, Isabel Duarte-Gray, and Jess Yuan
On April 10, 2023, Sherah Bloor, editor of the Peripheries Journal at the Center for the Study of World Religions hosted three exciting new voices in poetry. Bloor invited Tawanda Mulalu, Isabel Duarte-Gray, and Jess Yuan to discuss their latest works...
Video: Dis/appearing: Black Life, Theodicy & the Study of Religion with Biko Mandela Gray
Thursday, April 6, 2023 - Center for the Study of World Religions held its annual Greeley Lecture in Peace and Social Justice (Race, Religion, and Nationalism Series), welcoming Biko Gray, Assistant Professor of American Religion at Syracuse University to...
Video: Reiki, Energy Medicine, and Post-Materialism
Center for the Study of World Religions Research Associate Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani led a conversation with Dr. Natalie Dyer on April 5, 2023, titled "Reiki, Energy Medicine, and Post-Materialism." Dr. Dyer is a research scientist with Connor Whole Health...
Video: Judeopessimism: Antisemitism, History, and Critical Race Theory with Shaul Magid
On April 3, 2023, Shaul Magid delivered the Albert & Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture at the Center for the Study of World Religions. In this talk Magid explored the relationship Critical Race Theory and Black Studies have with Jewish Studies, in...
Video: Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research: Group Two
On April 1, 2023, The Harvard Psychedelics Project at Harvard Divinity School, a student organization, held the "Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research" conference gathering together faculty, researchers, and students from across Harvard...
Video: Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research: Regulation Panel
On April 1, 2023, The Harvard Psychedelics Project at Harvard Divinity School, a student organization, held the "Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research" conference gathering together faculty, researchers, and students from across Harvard...
Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research Conference 2023
The Harvard Psychedelics Project at Harvard Divinity School, a student organization, presented this conference to gather faculty, researchers, and students from across Harvard University to explore their diverse, interdisciplinary, and promising research...
Video: Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research: Group 3
On April 1, 2023, The Harvard Psychedelics Project at Harvard Divinity School, a student organization, held the "Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research" conference gathering together faculty, researchers, and students from across Harvard...
Video: Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research: Group One
On April 1, 2023, The Harvard Psychedelics Project at Harvard Divinity School, a student organization, held the "Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research" conference gathering together faculty, researchers, and students from across Harvard...