- Chitra Ganesh (Visual Artist); Exhibition at Clifford Gallery and On-site Mural Workshop
- Professor Brenton Sullivan Participated in an AHUM Panel discussion of the relationship between Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and future Nepal Extended Study
- Professor Jenna Reinbold Works In Progress Brown Bag Session Everywhere and Nowhere: Religion and Secularism in the U.S. Abortion Debate
- Rachel L. Swarns is a journalism professor at New York University and a contributing writer for The New York Times. Lecture: Souls for Sale: How Slavery Fueled the Growth of the American Catholic Church
- Benjamin Schonthal (Univ of Otago, NZ) Author: Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka. Lecture: Finding Buddhist Law in Colonial Ceylon/Sri Lanka
- Robert Garland, Professor Emeritus Lecture: "God against the Gods" Presents a case for polytheism, drawing upon the religious expressions of ancient Greece.
- Professor Steven Kepnes Works In Progress Brown Bag Session: The Climate Catastrophe: What's God Got to Do With It?
- Dr. Anthony B. Pinn (Rice University) Lecture: What is (Black) Religion?
- Javanese Gamelan & Shadow Puppet Performance of Wahyu Cakraningrat An Indonesian art form: a dozen musicians perform an excerpt from the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.
- CLTR Teaching Table with Harold Roth, professor of religion, director of the Contemplative Studies Initiative and Concentration, and co-founder of the Mindfulness Center at Brown University.
- Professor Georgia Frank Works In Progress Brown Bag Session: Lived Religion & Lost Voices
- Dr. Kathryn Santner discussed convent life, self-fashioning, and nuns' portraiture in colonial Peru in my course 'Nuns Having Fun in Colonial Latin America'. Lecture: Mrs. Freyer Presents: Early Collecting and Display of Andean Colonial Art
- Jeff Shore (professor emeritus in Zen Studies, Hanazono University) Lectures: Zen & the Art of Falling in Love and Ten Oxherding Pictures
- Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings Project, Playwrights discus their plays that deal with Ukrainians living through the current war as well as the Holocaust and WWII.
The religion department hosts a variety of speakers and lecturers on campus, inviting them to address the intersection of religion with politics, architecture, environmentalism, mass media, and more.
Colgate Events Calendar
Oct 20
Arts & Humanities Colloquium -- Creation & the Cosmic Egg: Hildegard’s Scivias and Ordo Virtutum
4:15pm to 5:30pm
Lecture Series
The Department of Religion invites notable speakers to campus as to provide students with additional perspectives.
Past Event Highlights
2023 - 24
2022-23
- Dr. Raj Balkaran - Author, Podcaster, Scholar of Sanskrit
- Elizabeth Pérez - UCSB Religious Studies Department
- Masa Madre - Babka-Making Workshop, Cinematographer
- Arthur Jafa and scholar of religion and artist Ashon Crawley
- Zaid Kurdieh of Norwich Meadows Farm and Chefs for Impact, Swastika Arulingam, Human Rights Lawyer and Activist
- Sumith Chaminda, Political Science Colombo University Sri Lanka,
- Marilyn Thie and Mary Canavan,
- Kathryn Lofton Yale Religious Studies and Author
- Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz - Author of Ancient Greek tragedy, Hamilton College
- Arti Dhand - Author, Podcastor, University of Toronto
- Dr. Alia Goehr - University of Chicago
- James Hoesterey - Author, Emory University Professor, Cultural Anthropologist
- Sunny Dooley - Navajo Blessingway Stories
- Magnus Fiskesjö, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University.