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The religion department hosts a variety of speakers and lecturers on campus, inviting them to address the intersection of religion with politics, architecture, environmentalism, mass media, and more.

Lecture Series

The Department of Religion invites notable speakers to campus as to provide students with additional perspectives.

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Past Event Highlights

  • (Visual Artist); Exhibition at Clifford Gallery and On-site Mural Workshop 
  • Professor Brenton Sullivan Participated in an
  • Professor Jenna Reinbold Works In Progress Brown Bag Session
  • is a journalism professor at New York University and a contributing writer for The New York Times. Lecture:
  • (Univ of Otago, NZ) Author:  Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka. Lecture: 
  • Robert Garland, Professor Emeritus Lecture: "" Presents a case for polytheism, drawing upon the religious expressions of ancient Greece.
  • Professor Steven Kepnes Works In Progress Brown Bag Session:
  •  (Rice University) Lecture:
  •  An Indonesian art form: a dozen musicians perform an excerpt from the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.
  • with Harold Roth, professor of religion, director of the Contemplative Studies Initiative and Concentration, and co-founder of the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. 
  • Professor Georgia Frank Works In Progress Brown Bag Session:  
  • discussed convent life, self-fashioning, and nuns' portraiture in colonial Peru in my course 'Nuns Having Fun in Colonial Latin America'. Lecture: 
  • Jeff Shore (professor emeritus in Zen Studies, )  Lectures:   and
  • , Playwrights discus their plays that deal with Ukrainians living through the current war as well as the Holocaust and WWII.
  •  - Author, Podcaster, Scholar of Sanskrit
  • - UCSB Religious Studies Department
  •  - Babka-Making Workshop, Cinematographer
  •  and scholar of religion and artist 
  • Zaid Kurdieh of  and , , Human Rights Lawyer and Activist
  • , Political Science Colombo University Sri Lanka, 
  • Marilyn Thie and Mary Canavan,
  •  Yale Religious Studies and Author
  •  - Author of Ancient Greek tragedy, Hamilton College
  •  - Author, Podcastor, University of Toronto
  •  - University of Chicago
  •  - Author, Emory University Professor, Cultural Anthropologist
  •  - Navajo Blessingway Stories 
  • , an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University.