*All events are in Room 5307, on Wednesdays, 12:30-2pm, unless otherwise noted
February 3rd
Susan Woodward, “The Decline of Violence: A Conversation with Susan Woodward on Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of our Nature”
February 10th
Jeff Diamant
“Saudi Arabia and African American Muslims, 1975-2000: Religious Authority and Transnationalism in a Muslim-Minority Land”
February 17th
Jürgen Mackert
“Changing forms of citizenship and the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Germany”
February 24th
Andrew March
“Explaining Disbelief: On the Enduring Puzzle of Religious Pluralism”
February 24th
Andrew March
“Explaining Disbelief: On the Enduring Puzzle of Religious Pluralism”
March 2nd
Bryan Turner
“Islamophobia vs. Islamofascism: the Role of Advocacy Concepts in Sociology”
March 9th
Shehzad Nadeem
“Bourgeois Bodies: How Yoga was Made Middle Class and Modern”
March 16th
Jon Keller
“The ‘Office of the Prophet’ in the Hebrew Bible: The Birth of Political Criticism”
March 30th
Matthew Baxter
“Bare Life: Nirvana, Mixed Marriage, and the Secular in Non-Brahmin Political Theory”
April 6th
Marc Katz
“Can you be commanded to be happy? A Jewish view”
April 13th
Lisa Tagliaferri
“Catherine of Siena’s Network”
April 20th
Matthew Scherer
“Democracy’s everyday failures: Tragedy, acknowledgement, and traces of theology in the late political thought of Stanley Cavell”
April 27th
Hilke Brockmann
“German Angst and German Glück [Happiness]: Experiencing migration in the 21st Century”
May 4th
Jamie Lindsay
“Jurgen Habermas’ Differentiation of Religious, Moral, and Ethical Discursive Contexts”
May 11th
Tracy Dennis-Tiwary
“Plugging into Happiness: How Technology Can Both Heal and Harm the Anxious Brain”
May 18th
Janet Gornick
“High and Rising Inequality: Causes and Consequences”
