Featuring work emerging from the 2013-2014 Humanities Center Faculty Research Seminar.
Part I: The Politics of Religion in Secular Spaces
This Dialogos session will feature work emerging from the Humanities Center Faculty Research Seminar: “In Search of the Secular”. These talks will also engage the work of nationally known scholar, Janet Jakobsen.
- Carolyn Fure-Slocum (College Chaplain)
- Lori Pearson (Professor and Chair of Religion)
- Peter Balaam (English) Moderator
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Part II: In Search of the Secular
- Peter Balaam (English): will present on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s religious thought.
- Adeeb Khalid (History): will present his work on antireligious campaigns in the early Soviet Union
- David Tompkins (History): will speak on constructions of Jews as friends and enemies in Cold War Eastern Europe