conferences

The call for papers is now closed. Conference details and registration are now available here. Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions is excited to announce the third annual Psychedelic Intersections conference. This one-day...

From May 14-18, 2024, the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School hosted an exclusive conference titled “Platonism as a Living Tradition.” This invite-only event brought together distinguished scholars and practitioners...

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. In-person registration is closed, as we have reached max capacity. Please register at the livestream link below to join virtually. Register to attend via livestream. The second annual...

“Religion, Ecology, and Our Planetary Future” advances the work of understanding and transforming the discourse of religions and ecology for the twenty-first century. The conference marks the twentieth anniversary of the Religions of the World and Ecology...

The following opening overview comments were delivered by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, both of Yale University, on October 14, 2016, at the Religion, Ecology, and Our Planetary Future Conference, held at the Center for the Study of World Religions at...

On October 14-16, 2016, the Center hosted Religion, Ecology, and Our Planetary Future, a major conference marking the twentieth anniversary of the Religions of the World and Ecology Conference series and subsequent book series, and moved forward the work...

September is once again upon us, and after a long hot and dry summer here in Cambridge, we are ready – or almost ready - for the new academic year. 2016 is a year in which religion remains much in the news, for both good and bad reasons. Climate change...

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, spent a month this summer with the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. On his third visit to ACU, Professor Clooney once...

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...