Gary A. Rendsburg Rutgers University Thursday, October 15, 2015 314 Royce Hall 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Light lunch will be served Over the course of more than two millennia, Jewish texts have transitioned from scroll to codex to book – and now to the digital age. This talk will survey the classical Jewish sources (Bible,...
Anna Sun Kenyon College Thursday, October 22, 2015 243 Royce Hall 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Light lunch will be served The revival of Confucianism in contemporary China has many dimensions, among which the political, the educational, the ritual, and the ethical are the most prominent. In this lecture Anna Sun focuses on the last...
Book Talk by: Robert Buswell, UCLA Asian Languages and Cultures Department Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark examines the issue of whether enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is sudden or gradual—that is, something intrinsic to the mind that is achieved in a sudden flash of insight or something extrinsic to it that must be developed through a...
The Love of Strangers- What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London In 1815, the Iranian Crown Prince ‘Abbas Mirza dispatched six young men to travel to England in search of the technological ‘new sciences’. One of these students, Mirza Salih Shirazi, recorded their experiences of almost four years of study in a journal...
Fifteen years after the horrific attacks of 9/11, the American Muslim community and the American democratic experiment both find themselves in a perilous state. No American community is viewed with more hostility and negativity. On one hand the community has had to perpetually defend itself against association with the vile attacks of groups like...
Charles Taylor November 3, 2016 Secularity: A Contested Concept Discussant: Craig Calhoun (LSE, Berggruen Institute) Young Research Library, Conference Room 11360 5:00 - 6:30 pm Open to the Public Charles Taylor is emeritus professor of Philosophy at McGill University and author of more than a dozen books including Sources of the Self (1992) and A Secular Age (2007). Taylor was recently named as the...
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The allegorical paintings and altarpieces that Lucas Cranach made in Wittenberg during his association with Martin Luther reveal a Reformation that is different from the one we know in books. This lecture examines the iconography of some of the earliest protestant artworks, made by some of the greatest artists of the German Renaissance, with an...
Keynote Lecture for the UCLA Graduate Conference on Religion: Performing Devotion: Religious Rituals and Religious Practices This talk explores the concept and representation of post-mortem paradises in Ancient Egypt and Early China. The notion of a paradise for the worthy, accessed through personal piety, ethical conduct or ritual knowledge, developed at a particular historical moment...
