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Undergraduate News!

Congratulations to Rudolph Reyes II who was selected to attend the recent Diversity and Explorations Program at Harvard Divinity School!

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PRESENTATIONS:

Ali Amin -
“Defining Religion in Indonesian Movies 2000-2006” 2007 Annual Meeting American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA, November 17-20 2007.

"Framing Religion in Raam Punjabi's Soap Opera", Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Annual conference, April 13-16, 2007, Phoenix Arizona.

"The Representation of Islam and Muslim in The Arizona Republic Newspaper 2005-2006", The 2006 Middle East and Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society Conference. September 7-9 2006, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Seth Clippard -
"Arguing for Survival: Rhetorical Uses of the Platform Sutra in Late Eighth-Century China" Taiwan Association of Religious Studies Annual Conference, July 1-2, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan

Brandon Crowe -
"American Evangelicalism, the Ethics of Belief, and the Challenge of Fideism" annual meeting AAR/WECSOR, March 2007.

Kelly Fitzsimmons -

“The Ethics of Critical Engagement and the Practice of Teaching Religion”, annual meeting AAR/ WECSOR, March 2007.

Brett Hendrickson -
"Sites of Healing: Mexican-American Folk Saints and Modernity" Society of Church History winter meeting,  Washington, DC, January 3-5, 2008.

Jeffrey Halverson –
"The Islamic State in Egyptian Islamist Discourse: 1928-1966," annual meeting AAR/WECSOR, March 13, 2005.

Joon Sik Hwang -
"The Tale of Two Cities: The Comparison of Two Images of Ayodhya"  The 2nd South and Southeast Asian Association for The Study of Culture and Religion, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, May 24 2007.

"Four Points of View on The Partition of Indian Subcontinent" Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies and the Southwest Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, September, 21, 2007.

Samsul Maarif -
Syncretism or Dissimulation? Strategies for Religious and Cultural Survival among the Ammatoa of Sulawesi, Indonesia. " 2007 Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR), April 13-16, 2007,  Phoenix , Arizona.

Beverly Lucas -
"Conjured Realities: Depicting Wiccan Women in Film" American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 19, 2007, San Diego, California.

Pat Power -
"The Holy, the Hypocrites, and the Ecclesia: Uncovering Identity in the Didache," annual meeting AAR/WECSOR, March 25, 2007.

Evelyn Sanchez -
"Determining the Importance of Saint Veneration Practices for the Growth and Maintenance of Early Christianity through the Use of a Theological/Historical Perspective,” annual meeting AAR/WECSOR, March 2007

Beau Seegmiller -
“‘People of Faith’: Defining Religion in American Public Life” 2007 Society for the Anthropology of Religion Meeting, April 13-16, 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona.

“Ethos of Engagement: An Internationalist Ethic” 13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium, The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations, February 15-17, 2007 at Arizona State University.

“Radicalized Margins: Eric Rudolph and Religious Violence” First North American Conference on Radicalism, January 25-27, 2007 at Michigan State University.

“The FBI’s Project Megiddo: Secularism, Secularization, and the Category of Religious Violence” Religion, Politics, and Law Graduate Symposium, March 31-April 1, 2006 at Florida State University.

“Are Mormons Polytheists?” 2006 Arizona Sunstone Symposium, January 14, 2006 at Arizona State University.

Konden Smith -
"Nineteenth-Century Mormonism or 'An Unloved Child': National Culture and the Contested Notions of Americanness and the American Kingdom of God," annual meeting AAR/WECSOR, March 25, 200

"Nineteenth-Century Mormonism or 'An Unloved Child': National Culture and the Contested Notions of Americanness and the American Kingdom of God," Mormon History Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, Ma7 26, 2007

Abdoulaye Sounaye -
Remembering the Past, Inspiring the Present: Reappropriating Sheick Usman Dan Fodio’s Jihad in Niger’s Islamic Sphere, AAR/WECSOR.

Religion and Colonialism in Niger: The Case of Babule, Arizona State University, Religious Encounters and Modernity.

ImaginingIndigenous Religions in Colonial Niger: The Case of the Babule Religious Movement,  2007 Society for the Anthropology Meeting, Phoenix.

Mugdha Yeolekar -
"The Social Functions of Historical Narratives in Non-Brahman Movement in Western India" Western Conference of American Association of Asian studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City September, 2007.

"The Malibu Hindu temple: ‘replication’ or ‘recreation’?  On redefining ‘Indian culture’ in the context of transnational Hinduism"  The conference was on 'Syncrestism in South and South east Asia' and was organized by the South and South east Asia Regional Association of the International Association of History of Religions, conference in Bangkok.

PUBLICATIONS:

Jeffrey Halverson
Book Review for The Qur'an and the West, by Kenneth Cragg (Georgetown University Press, 2005) in Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol. 14, Issue 1 (Oxford: BlackwellPublishing, 2007), 13-15.

Book Review for Muslims in the United States: Identity, Influence, Innovation, ed. Philippa Strum (Washington: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005) in Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol. 13, Issue 4 (Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, 2006): 519-522.

Book Review for Islam and the West Post 9/11, ed. Ron Geaves (Ashgate, 2004) in Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol. 13, Issue 1 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006): 113-115.

Book Review for Martyrdom in Islam, by David Cook (Cambridge University Press, 2007) in Reviews in Religion and Theology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), forthcoming.

"The Muslim Brotherhood," in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence, ed. Jeffrey Ian Ross (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008), forthcoming.

"Feminist Thought in Islam," in The Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, ed. Yudit Kornberg Greenberg (Oxford, UK: ABC-CLIO, 2007), forthcoming.

"No Longer a Novelty: Caucasian American Muslims" in Islamic Horizons, ed.Omer
Bin Abdullah (January/February 2005): 36-45.

Patricia Power
"Seppuku" in Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence, Jeffrey Ian Ross, ed., M.E. Sharpe (forthcoming).

Brooke Schedneck
“Buddhist Life Stories” Contemporary Buddhism, vol. 8, issue 1, May 2007.

Beau Seegmiller
“Peoples Temple.” In Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence, ed. By Jeffrey Ian Ross. M.E. Sharpe, (forthcoming).

Co-authored with Brett Hendrickson. “Religious Studies Engaged in Refugee Studies: Potential Contributions.” Refuge and Rejection: The Humanities in the Study of Forced Migration (a peer reviewed online journal). Department of History, Arizona State University, (forthcoming).

“Radicalized Margins: Eric Rudolph and Religious Violence.” Terrorism and Political Violence (forthcoming).

Abdoulaye Sounaye
'Les Politiques de l'Islam au Niger dans l'ère de la démocratisation: de 1991 à 2002', in Muriel Perez-Gomez, Islam politique au sud du Sahara: Identités, discours et enjeux, ed. Paris: Karthala, 2005.

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Spring 2007 Religious Studies Awards and Opportunities

• Outstanding Major: Alexander Ginsburg. 
• Outstanding Concurrent Major: Martin Martos III
• Outstanding community/public service: Aaron Begay
• Outstanding Interdisciplinary Major: Trevor Link
• Outstanding Academic Achievement: Seth Larson
• Undergraduate Norton Grant for Women's Studies in Religion: Erika Levin
• Graduate Norton Grant for Women's Studies in Religion: Elizabeth Ursic
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistants: Seth Clippard and Mugdha Yeolekar
• Outstanding Graduate Student: Inayah Romaniyah
• Lily Safra Internship Program at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (summer 2007): Erika Levin
• CLAS Student Ambassador: Yousra Madfai

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2006-07 PAST EVENTS

October 6 & 7 2006
Research Consultation
Buddhist Objects: Knowledge, Ritual and Art
Arizona State University
Resources

Friday, September 15, 2006
Difficult Dialogues Faculty Seminar
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict

Monday, September 18, 2006 12 noon, Marshall Conference Room (ECA 385)
"The Future of Sovereignty"
Conversations at the Center with Robin Lovin, the Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University.
Robin Lovin

Due: October 16, 2006
Sun Angel Undergraduate Research Award
Applications for Spring 2007 awards now available

Downoad: application form        advisor form

October 6-7, 2006

Conference on Buddhist Manuscripts as objects of Art, Knowledge and Ritual
(IHR Seed Grant - Juliane Schober and Claudia Brown)

October 10, 7:30 p.m. Old Main, Carson Ballroom

"Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Religion, Science and Technology"

Templeton Research Lectures

Leda Cosmides, Professor of Psychology

University of California, Santa Barbara.

Open to the Public

October 16, 2006

Sun Angel Undergraduate Research Award
Applications for Spring 2007 awards now due

Downoad: application form        advisor form

October 19, 7:30, Coor 170

"Legal Ethics: A Medieval Ghost Story"

ACMRS Distinguished Lecture in Medieval Studies

James Brundage (University of Kansas)

Free and open to the Public

October 20, 2006, 9:30-12 noon, Coor 5536

"Are the Crusades Still Relevant?"

An Academic Panel: John Carlson, Aurelio Espinosa, Mark Woodward and James Brundage

Co-sponsored with Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict and

The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Download Panel flyer (PDF)

October 21, 2006, Coor 170

"Violence and War in Medieval Canon Law"

Religious Studies/ACMRS Homecoming Lecture

James Brundage (University of Kansas)

Free and open to the Public

October 25, 2006, 4:30pm, Old Main Carson Ballroom

Religion and Conflict: Alternative Visions - "Religion and Foreign Policy"

Jack Miles (author of God: A Biography)

Open to the Public

CSRC

October 27, 2006
Difficult Dialogues Faculty Seminar
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict

 

November 7-8, 2006

Alicia Ostriker (Rutgers University)

Feminist, Poet, Critic & Midrashist
Poetry Reading / Q & A: Tuesday, November 7 at 7:00 p.m. MU 224
Midrash Writing Workshop: Wednesday, November 8 12:00-1:30pm, Virginia G Piper Writers House
Open Class on Women's Poetry: Wednesday, November 8 5:00-6:30pm, LL145
All sessions are free and open to the public. Call 480-727-6906 for information
Download PDF Flyer

November 9, 2006 1:45pm, MU Pima Room (MU218)

“When Religion Brings Peace, Not War.”

Annual Lecture on Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies

with David Smock, Religion and Peacebuilding Program

United States Institute for Peace

**classes welcome

November 16-17, 2006 9:00 am to 5:30 pm, Coor 5536

Invoking Gender in Korean Religious Traditions

Sponsored by the Korea Foundation
co-sponsored by ASU Center for Asian Research,
Department of Religious Studies, Women and Gender Studies Program,
and Korean Studies Program
Download Symposium Flyer (PDF)

Friday, January 19, 2007, 1:30 PM
Conversations at the Center
"Democracy Promotion in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the West Bank”
With Rosie O'Connell
Marshall Conference Room (Engineering Center A wing - ECA 385)
(Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict)

Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 12:00 PM, Social Sciences 109
“What are the Humanities Good For?” Series –
“Fits and Misfits: Disciplinary Locations in the Humanities”
With Linell Cady and Margaret Walker
(Sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research)

Feb 9, 2007

Difficult Dialogues Faculty Seminar
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict

Monday, February 12 , 2007, 12:00 PM, Social Sciences 109
“What are the Humanities Good For?” Series –
“Knowledge and Belief in Religion and Science”
With Norbert Sameulson and Brad Armendt
(Sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research

Tuesday-Wednesday, February 20-21 , 2007 MU 080 (Fiesta Room)
International Conference on Jerusalem Across the Disciplines
Tuesday, February 20, 2007, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Keynote: "Living and Revealing Jerusalem" by Dr. Menachem Klein ( PDF)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel
International and cross-disciplinary conference (more information)

(Sponsored by Jewish Studies Program. Cosponsored by the ASU Department of Religious Studies, Center for Study of Religion and Conflict, Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law with contributions by the Department of Political Science, School of Justice and Social Inquiry, and the School of Global Studies)

Thursday, February 22 , 2007, 1:40 PM, Marshall Conference Room (ECA 385)
Conversations at the Center
"We Have No Order To Save You! Deadly Riots, Partition Or Genocide In South Asia "
With Jackie Assayag,
L'École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales
(Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict)

Friday-Saturday, February 23-24, 2007,
Academic Conference: “ Religious Encounters at the Intersection of Colonialism and Modernity ”
Organized by Eugene Clay and Alexander Henn
(Sponsored by Religious Studies with support from the Institute of Humanities Research)

Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 12:15 PM, A.S.U., Room TBA
Interpreting Biblical Ancestors Through Art
Janet Shafner, Internationally recognized Jewish Artist
(Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program)

Monday, March 5, 2007, 2:00 PM, Marshall Conference Room (ECA 385)
Conversations at the Center
"American Amelek: Religion and Violence in American Religious History"
With John Corrigan
(Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict)

Tuesday, March 7, 2007, 12:00 PM, Social Sciences 109
“What are the Humanities Good For?” Series –
With Neal Lester and Matthew Whitaker
(Sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research)

Thursday, March 8, 2007, 7:30 p.m. College of Law Great Hall
Public Lecture: “ "Islamic Ethics and Gender: Towards an Ethics of Compassion"” Religion and Conflict: Alternative Visions

with Amina Wadud

Topic: Women and Islam
(Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict)

 

March 9, 2007

Difficult Dialogues Faculty Seminar
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict

Friday, March 23, 2007, 11:00 AM, ASU Tempe Campus, COOR 4403
Student Discussion with Manulani Meyer

Friday, March 23, 2007, 6:00 PM, ASU Tempe Campus, Murdock Hall 101
Public Lecture: "Indigenous and Original: Hawaiian Epistemology and Meaning Making"

with Manulani Meyer, University of Hawaii

(Sponsored by Asian Pacific American Studies, the Department of Religious Studies, and Women and Gender Studies)

Wednesday-Thursday, March 22-23, 2007
Eckstein Lectures in Jewish Studies
with Judit Bokser-Liwerant, Head of Graduate School of Political and Social Sciences UNAM
(Topic, Time and Location: TBA)
(Sponsored by Jewish Studies Program)

March 22-23, 2007, 9-5, University Club

Conference on "Religion, the Secular and Democracy:
Competing Narratives, Alternative Modes" (more information)

(Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict; funded by the Ford Foundation)

Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 12:00 PM
Conversations at the Center
"The Third Pillar of Indigenous Authority:
Making Relevant the Traditional Religious Hierarchy in Guatemalan Maya Politics"
With Timothy J. Smith
Marshall Conference Room (Engineering Center A wing - ECA 385)
(Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict)

Saturday, March 31, 2007 | 7:30 PM, Katzin Concert Hall
Music of the Jewish Tradition with ASU Chamber Singers
Katzin Concert Hall (West Wing, 1st floor, Music Building), Arizona State University
David Schildkret conductor, and ASU faculty members
Judy May, Thomas Landschoot, and Robert Hamilton.
(Sponsored by the ASU School of Music and Jewish Studies Program)

Monday, April 9, 2007, 7:30 PM, Recital Hall
Film Screening: Bernstein: Reaching for the Note
Recital Hall (East Wing, 5th floor, Music Building), Arizona State University
(Sponsored by the ASU School of Music and Jewish Studies Program)

Thursday, April 12, 2007 | 7:30 PM
Bernstein's Jeremiah Symphony and Bloch's Sacred Service Informance
Beth El Congregation
1118 West Glendale Avenue | Phoenix, Arizona
(Cosponsored by the ASU School of Music, Jewish Studies Program and  Bureau of Jewish Education)

Friday, April 13 , 2007 | 1:30 PM | University Club
Marshall Speaker Series: "Sacred and Secular Refigured:
Identity, Piety and Politics in a Global Era"
With Jean Comaroff
(Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict)

Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 7:30 p.m., Old Main Carson Ballroom
Public Lecture: "Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism:
Religion, Science and Technology"
with John Tooby, Professor of Anthropology
University of California - Santa Barbara
(Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict)

Thursday, April 19, 2007, 7:30 PM, Recital Hall (East Wing, 5th floor, Music Building), Arizona State University
Barton Lee (Religious Studies, Hillel, ASU): Liturgy in the Bloch Sacred Service
Marvin Sweeney (Religious Studies, Claremont Graduate University): Bernstein and Lamentations
David Schiller (Music, University of Georgia): Jewish Music before and after the Holocaust

Joel Gereboff, moderator
David Schildkret, respondent
(Sponsored by ASU School of Music and Jewish Studies Program)

Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 7:00-10:00 PM, Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, Arizona State University
Open Rehearsal: Bernstein's Jeremiah Symphony and Bloch's Sacred Service

The ASU Symphony Orchestra joins the ASU Choral Union, Symphonic Chorale and Chamber Singers, David Schildkret, conductor. Q and A with the conductor follows.

April 27, 2007
Difficult Dialogues Faculty Seminar
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict

Thursday-Saturday, May 31 to June 2, 2007, MU #202

RIFREM 10th Annual Conference
10th annual meeting of the Network of Religious Phenomena Researchers in Mexico (Red de Investigadores del Fenomeno Religioso en Mexico) Co-hosted by Department of Religious Studies and Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies. Downlad PDF of program

June 17-20, 2007
Association of Jewish Libraries 42nd Annual Convention
for additional information visit: http://www.jewishlibraries.org

Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 4:40PM
Venerable Pomryun
“Active Social Engagement: A Korean Buddhist Perspective”
Department of Religious Studies, Korean Studies Program
LL 60

Thursday, September 27, 2007, 10:40AM
Ivan Strenski, UC Riverside
Conversation about Theorizing Religion and Religious Studies
Marshall Conference Room (ECA 385)

Thursday, September 27, 2007, 12:00 noon
Ivan Strenski
“When God Plays Politics: Political Religions and Religious Politics”
Marshall Conference Room (ECA 385)
CSRC

Thursday, October 11, 2007, 4:30PM
Religion and Conflict: Alternative Visions
Michael Scheuer,
“Two Steps Toward Hell: The Scare-Mongers, the Caliphate, and Islamofascism”
4:30pm, College of Law, Great Hall
CSRC, Tickets Required

Friday, October 12, 2007, 9:00AM– 5:00PM
"From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence and America"
University Club North Room
Speakers include: Sohail Hashmi, Steven Webb, Lynn Neal, John Carlson, Moses Moore, James Turner Johnson
CSRC

Monday, October 15, 2007
Brian McGuire, Roskilde University, Denmark
“The Meaning of Christianization: The Case of Denmark, 700 – 1300”
3:00 PM, Lattie F. Coor Hall – Room 4403
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies and ACMRS

Monday, October 22, 2007, 7:30PM
Templeton Research Lectures
Brad Allenby
“From Human to Transhuman: Technology and the Reconstruction of the World”
7:30pm, College of Law, Great Hall
CSRC, Tickets Required

Thursday, November 8, 2007, 4:00PM
Abdullahi An-Na'im,
 "Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a
4:00pm, University Club South Room
CSRC

 

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Four Religious Studies Majors Named Research Fellows by
ASU's Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict

Four Religious Studies majors have been accepted in The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict’s Undergraduate Research Fellows program for the 2006-07 academic year. Vahid Dejwakh, Tobie Milford, Randall Reed and Joel Shepard will participate in research projects on religion and conflict currently being conducted at ASU and will receive a $500 scholarship upon completion of the program.

The undergraduate research fellows program focuses on providing a rich interdisciplinary atmosphere for student development. Students accepted into the program work directly with a faculty member on current research projects involving religion and conflict. They also take a special class with the Center’s Director, Religious Studies Professor Linell Cady, and have an opportunity to meet with visiting scholars, attend special lectures, and compete for research, travel and conference funds.

For additional information about this program, please visit:
The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Undergraduate Faculty Research Advisor

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Spring 2006 Religious Studies Awards

The following Religious Studies students received awards and honors at the end of the Spring 2006 semester.

Brandon Crowe, who is now a student in the Department's doctoral program, received the Outstanding Major award.  Brandon is working in the Religion in America track and is currently teaching 7th and 8th grade History in Paradise Valley.

Roxane Barr, who graduated with a concurrent degree in English Literature, and Louis 'Benji' Rolsky (concurrent in History) , each received the department’s Outstanding Concurrent Major award.  Roxane is now the Program coordinator for the Virginia Piper Center for Creative Writing. Benji, who received a Theta Alpha Kappa award as well is on his way to Claremont for his graduate studies.

Corinne Widmer was rewarded for her outstanding community/public service and for her many achievements in the public sphere. Corinne majored in Religious Studies and Political Science and served as President of the Undergraduate Student Government. She will be pursuing her M.A. in Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.

Alex Ginsburg was this year's recipient of the Dean's Circle Scholarship.

Erin Lanus, a concurrent major in Psychology, received the department’s Undergraduate Norton Grant for Women's Studies in Religion for a second year.  Erin is continuing her study of women’s contributions to Zen Buddhism.

Matt Estes, who has completed a dual major in Religions Studies and Philosophy, and a minor in Political Science received department recognition as the Outstanding Trans-Disciplinary Scholar. Matt will attend the University of Texas Law School to pursue his J.D. and a concurrent degree in philosophy.

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2005-2006 CALENDAR
LECTURES AND PROGRAMS RELATED TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:30 pm.
ACMRS Distinguished Lecture in Medieval Studies.
Carolyn Walker Bynum (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton ), “Did Medieval Women See Visions?”
Coor Hall 170

Friday, October 28, 2005 10 am.
Joint Colloquium and Conversation Caroline Walker Bynum.
Sponsored by Departments of Religious Studies and History in conjunction with ACMRS.
Coor 4403

Saturday, October 29, 2005 11am.
ACMRS Homecoming Lecture.
Caroline Walker Bynum , “Ideals of Blood and Atonement in Late Medieval Piety."
Coor Hall 170.

Sunday, November 6, 2005 , 7-9pm.
“Ethics After Auschwitz : Jonas’ Notion of Responsibility in a Technological Age”
Part of Jonas Conference on Religion & Technology.
Neeb Hall, 105.
Sponsored by CSRC, Jewish Studies Program

Sunday-Monday, November 6-7, 2005.
Conference on Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life: The Legacy of Hans Jonas.
Sponsored by Harold and Jean Grossman Chair in Jewish Studies, CSRC, Department of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies Program

Friday-Saturday, January 13-14, 2006.
Sunstone Conference.

Wednesday, January 18, 2006.
Albert and Liese Eckstein Lecture in Jewish Studies.
Omer Bartov, Brown University.
“The Death of the Shtetl: The Holocaust in Buczacz Ukraine, in Fact and Memory."
Temple Chai

Thursday, January 19, 2006.
Omer Bartov, Brown University.
“Jews, Arabs and the Holocaust in Recent Israeli Cinema.”
ASU Tempe Campus, Time and Location TBA

January 22-23, 2006.
Conflicts at the Interface of Science and Religion: A Series of Public Symposia.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, the Metanexus Institute, and the Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies.

Symposium 1: Evolution and Intelligent Design: Religion, Science and American Culture.
Sunday, January 22, 7:00pm-9:00pm.
Evelyn Smith Music Theater (located in the ASU Music Building across from Gammage) The panelists will address the recurrent battle over evolution and intelligent design in American culture, locating the contemporary conflict within its broader historical and cultural contexts. In the process it will consider larger questions about the nature of religion, the nature of science, and their interface.

Symposium 2: The Pursuit of Happiness: Perspectives from Science and Religion.
Monday, January 23, 2006 , 9am to 12 noon.
Old Main Carson Ballroom. With recent developments in neuroscience, biotechnology, and psychometrics the panel will look at the implications on our society and culture. They will assess the benefits as well as the risk and dangers of the pharmacological approach to human longing for happiness.

Both discussions are free and open to the public. Seating is limited, please call 480-727-6736 or email csrc@asu.edu to order your tickets.  For more information on the panelists and content of the discussion, go to http://www.asu.edu/clas/csrc/conference_archive_science.html

 

Thursday, February 2, 7:30 pm , 2006.
Art Spiegelman, “Comix 101.”
Sponsored by Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.
Orpheum Theater

Sunday – Tuesday, February 5-7, 2006.
Jewish Studies Conference: imagiNATION: The Cultural Praxis of Zionism.
Sponsored by Jewish Studies Program, Department of Religious Studies.
Location TBA.

Friday -- February 10th, 9:30 AM in ECA 371

The Department of Religious Studies and the Barrett Honors College present Professor Ron Inden (University of Chicago) speaking in a Colloquium on "Images of Utopia in Bollywood Films."

Thursday-Saturday, Feb 16-18, 2006.
ACMRS Annual Conference.
Mark Cohen ( Princeton ), Keynote.

Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006 3 pm.
Joint Colloquium with Mark Cohen , Princeton University.
Sponsored by Departments of Religious Studies and History in conjunction with ACMRS.
Muslim, Christian and Jewish Relations in the Middle Ages.
Coor 4011.

Wednesday-Thursday, February 22-23rd.
Jeffrey Stout , Princeton University.
CSRC.

Thursday-Friday, March 3-4, 2006.
Religion in the American West Through the Prism of Race and Ethnicity Conference.
Sponsored by IHR and RS.

Wednesday, March 8, 2005.
Carl Ernst , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“Interpreting Islam: Politics, the Media and the Academy.”
7:30pm , location TBA.

Friday, March 31, 2006.
Religious Studies Conference: Christianity and Colonialism.
Location TBA.
Sponsored by Department of Religious Studies.

Wednesday, April 5, 2005.
Public Lecture w/ Jean Bethke Elshtain , University of Chicago.
“Are We Losing Our Humanity?: C.S. Lewis on Moral Conflict. ”
Old Main Carson Ballroom at 7:30pm.

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Three Religious Studies majors have been accepted in The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict’s Undergraduate Research Fellows program for the 2005-06 academic year. Roxanne Barwick, Steven Cottam and Corinne Widmer will participate in research projects on religion and conflict currently being conducted at ASU and will receive a $500 scholarship upon completion of the program.

The undergraduate research fellows program focuses on providing a rich interdisciplinary atmosphere for student development. Students accepted into the program work directly with a faculty member on current research projects involving religion and conflict. Fellows also have an opportunity to meet with visiting scholars, attend special lectures, compete for research, travel and conference funds, and qualify for three credit hours and a stipend of $500.

For additional information about this program, please visit:
The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Undergraduate Faculty Research Advisor

Spring 2005 Religious Studies Awards

The following Religious Studies students received awards and honors at the end of the Spring 2005 semester.

Rachel Aiken, who graduated with a concurrent degree in Psychology, received the department’s Best Concurrent Major award.  Rachel is now off to Seattle where she plans to open her own restaurant.

Alex Ginsburg received a Jewish Studies Scholarship this May.  Alex is spending the summer in South Africa with ASU's Summer Abroad program.

Ryan Riedel, who graduated with a concurrent degree in Spanish, received the department’s Community Service award.  Incidentally, he also received the same award from the Honor’s college.  Ryan will be taking time off before graduate school to continue his research in Mexico.

Erin Lanus, a concurrent major in Psychology, received the department’s Norton Grant for Women's Studies in Religion.  Erin will be off to Japan for a semester to study Women’s role in Zen Buddhism.

Eric Lind, who graduated with a concurrent degree in Philosophy, received the department’s Best Graduate award.  Eric also received an Honor’s award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  Eric is next off to South Africa to assist in the summer abroad program, but he recently notified us that he will be spending next year in South Africa having been awarded a Fulbright Grant.

Rebecca Webb-Gourrinat,who graduated as a concurrent major with English, received our Outstanding Contribution to the Religious Studies Department award.  Not only has Rebecca been instrumental in organizing the Religious Studies Society, she has created as part of her Honor’s thesis a website that is a real resource for students searching for an academic and useful center for information on all things religious.  Rebecca was also this year’s recipient of the Dean’s Circle Scholarship.