Lectures

Thanks to the generous donations from our friends and alumni*, the department is able to sponsor lecture series and host events for our concentrators. Here are highlights from our 2007/08 schedule:

10/19/07: Sarah Cramsey ’04, Ph.D. student, University of California, Berkeley. “Saying Kaddish in Prague: Shoah Memorialization in Czechoslovakia”

10/30/07: Barbara King, Professor, College of William and Mary. Panel discussion of her recent book, Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion. Panel members: Professors Galambush and Morreall.
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11/14/07: Daniel Zemel, Rabbi, Temple Micah, Washington DC. “Reform Judaism in America: A Close Reading of the 1999 Platform”

11/27/07: Brad L. Weiss, Professor, College of William and Mary. “African Traditional Religions”

12/03/07: William D. Rudolph, Rabbi, Congregation Beth El, Bethesda, MD. “Conservative Judaism in America: A Close Reading of the 1988 Platform”

12/ --/07: Michael Brenner, Professor, Chair, Jewish History and Culture, Munich, Germany. Topic: “After the Holocaust”

01/29/08: John Pollini, Professor, University of Southern Florida. “Christian Destruction and Desecration of Images of Classical Antiquity”

03/13/08: “Let’s Talk About Studying Abroad” event (dinner and discussion) for Religious Studies Majors and Minors.

03/25/08: Maggie Wunnenberg ’02, Visiting Instructor, College of William and Mary. “The Victim, the Threat, and the Martyr: Images of the Child Shoah Survivor in the Immediate Postwar Period”

03/31/08: Marcie Cohen Ferris, Assistant Professor, American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Associate Director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. “Religion and Domestic Culture: Judaism at Home in the American South”

03/31/08: Lloyd Steffen, Professor, Lehigh University.
“The Moral Meaning of Fetal Innocence: An Approach to Abortion through Just War Thinking”

*July 07-June 08 Alumni donors: W. Bangel, D. Belen, W. Bossin, C. Brockwell, B. Bromley, B. Brown, P. Carr, Mr. & Mrs. J. Comey, Jr., J. Crane, J. Devereaux, A. Eichel, E. Forrest, K. Goldberg, M. Golub, J. Harris, K. Hill, K. Koch, D. McClendon, A. McIntosh, R. Miller, K. Nelson, R. O’Callahan, S. Page, A. Pinkerton, M. Poteet, N. Ronollo, S. Schworer, C. Shadyac, B. Soffin, K. Toker, R. Tuttle, K. Waller, J. Watson, Dr. & Mrs. D. Willson