Thursday, March 28, 5:30-7:00 p.m. 107 Business
Tinu Ruparell
Associate Professor in Indian and Comparative Philosophy, Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary
“Religion and/as technology: Re-entering the Public Sphere”
2019 Harshbarger lecture in Religious Studies
Thursday, March 28, 12-1:30 p.m. 102 Weaver
Society for the Study of Religion seminar with Tinu Ruparell
“Professionalising Religious Studies”
Catherine Wanner responding
Light lunch will be served.
Monday, Feb 4, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Sparks 124
Sarah Garibova, Assistant Teaching Professor in Jewish Studies
“Jewish Burial Culture and the Exhumation of Holocaust Mass Graves in Postwar Belarus and Ukraine”
This talk will examine Soviet Jews’ post-Holocaust efforts to reconcile traditional parameters of proper burial with the catastrophic burial landscape created by the Nazi and Romanian occupations of Eastern Europe. These survivors’ frequent use of grave exhumations complicates overly-simplistic narratives of both “tradition” and “secularization.”
Christopher Heaney responding
Light lunch will be served.