Lecture

Feb

25

Lecture

Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding with Thomas Friedman

Location:

Zoellner Arts Center, Baker Hall

February 25, 2025, 8 - 9:30pm

Thomas Friedman, the internationally renowned and award-winning author, reporter, and columnist will deliver the annual Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding, Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 8:00 p.m. in Zoellner Arts Center’s Baker Hall. It will be followed by a question-and-answer…

Nov

7

Lecture

What do we owe the ancestors? Legacy Collections and Repatriation in Archaeological Laboratories

Location:

STEPS 101

November 7, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Over 30 years after the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), new regulations have become a catalyst for institutions to invest in NAGPRA programs and initiatives. This has resulted in the hiring of personnel throughout the U.S. that are…

Nov

12

Lecture

Berman Center: Making Jewish Heritage in the Present: A tribute to Dr. Chava Weissler

Location:

Williams Hall, Global Commons

November 12, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Prof. Chava Weissler, Lehigh University, Emerita, will be interviewed by Prof. Jessica Carr, the Berman Scholar of Jewish Studies at Lafayette College where they are an Associate Professor of Religious Studies, and Prof. Martin Kavka, a former Berman Professor who…

Oct

24

Lecture

The Planetary Turn in Historical Thinking with Dipesh Chakrabarty

Location:

Linderman Library, Room 200

October 24, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Dipesh Chakrabarty teaches History and South Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. His publications include Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000; 2008), The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021) and One Planet, Many Worlds …

Feb

6

Lecture

Gipson: Plains, Hills and Mountains: The Balkan Peninsula in the Eighteenth Century with Professor Molly Greene

Location:

TBD

February 6, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30pm

This talk is intended as a response to Faruk Tabak’s sweeping study of the Mediterranean, The Waning of the Mediterranean 1550-1870: A Geohistorical Approach (2008). In the book Tabak argues that Mediterranean unity continued long past Braudel’s famous sixteenth century. The…

Oct

15

Lecture

Southeast Asia into the Eighteenth Century: The Lynchpin of Asia's Seaways with Professor Eric Tagliacozzo

Location:

STEPS 280

October 15, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Different parts of the world are said to have "entered modernity" – a tenuous phrase at best – at different times.  For Southeast Asia, there is an argument to be made that this transition was happening just as we move into the eighteenth century.  How and why was this…

Oct

16

Lecture

Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire with SherAli Tareen

Location:

STEPS 101

October 16, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Perilous Intimacies explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Based on the close reading of an expansive and multifaceted archive of Arabic, Persian,…

Oct

15

Lecture

Beyond Sectarianism: Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and Formations of Religious Identity in Early Islam with Tehseen Thaver

Location:

STEPS 101

October 15, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

In her new book, Beyond Sectarianism, Tehseen Thaver offers a fundamental reevaluation of how one should think about the relationship between the Qur’an, Shi‘ism, and religious identity. This book focuses on the literary Arabic Qur’an exegesis of the highly influential yet less…

Oct

17

Lecture

Africana Studies: It’s Only Hidden if you Don’t Look: Race, Ghosts, and the Archive—Public Lecture with B. Brian Foster (5x10)

Location:

Business Innovation Building Room 108

October 17, 2024, 6 - 7pm

Drawing from his new book, Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight, B. Brian Foster tells a collection of stories that together show the importance of seeing the environment-the buildings we enter, the roads we travel, the things we are surrounded by-as…

Oct

9

Lecture

Eckardt Lecture 2024: Black Freedom & the Racialization of "Religious Excitement" in American Psychiatry with Judith Weisenfeld

Location:

STEPS 101

October 9, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

As the nineteenth century drew to a close, white American psychiatrists declared that mental illness among African Americans in the South had reached alarming proportions and argued that, in a notable percentage of these cases, “religious excitement” was the key…

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