Department of Religious Studies
Spring 2008 Colloquium
Thursdays, 3-4:30
January 17 - First meeting - Reading Group
January 24: SPEAKER
Professor Sally Gordon, Law School and History
"The Devil: The Nation of Islam and Religion in Priso, l955-1970"
Respondents: Reena Vaidya, RELS Graduate Student
Verity Clayton, RELS Graduate Student
January 31 - PROFESSIONALIZATION
J. Melvin, RELS Graduate Student
"Clerical Book Ownership in Avila, 1561-1636"
Respondents: Virginia Wayland
February 7 - No Colloquium (Faculty Meeting)
February 14 - READING
February 21 - SPEAKER
Professor Tom Safley, History
"On Merchant Practice': Religious Principle and Economic Behavior in Early Modern Europe"
Respondents: Dave Barbee, Amira Qurayshi
February 28 - PROFESSIONALIZATION
Luke Blair, Graduate Student, RELS
"From Painted Soldiers to Gods: The Evolution of Human Meaning in Nietzsche's Thought"
Respondents:
March 6 -No Colloquium (Faculty Meeting)
March 13 - No Colloquium (Spring Break)
March 20 - SPEAKER
Professor Cam Grey, Ancient History
"Germanus in Gaul: Constantius Writes a Sacred Landscape"
Respondent: Sigrid Peterson
Respondents: Jonathan Seif
March 27 - PROFESSIONALIZATION
Ludmila Zamah, RELS Graduate Student
"The Interactionn Between Narrative and Legal Exegesis in Qurtubi's Tafsir"
Respondents: Jeffrey Arsenault, Sarah Lenzi
April 3 - No Colloquium (Faculty Meeting)
April 10 - READING: Mirceau Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane
April 17 - SPEAKER
Professor Jessica Goldberg, History
"Merchants and God in the 11th Century: Religious Language, Religious Sentiment and Religious
Community in the Mewrcantile World of the Geniza"
Respondent: Amira Quraishi
Professor Jessica Goldberg, History
"Merchants and God in the 11th Century: Religious Language, Religious Sentiment and Religious Community in the Mercantile World of the Geniza"
Respondents: Amira Quraishi
April 24 - PROFESSIONALIZATION
Professor Maxine Grossman, Jewish Studies, University of Maryland
"Finding an Academic Home: Religious Studies and Life After Penn"
Respondents: