Acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh explores the impact of global warming on the craft of narrative fiction in his latest work—The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Ghosh will discuss this timely work with Insight Program
Dr. Simran Jeet Singh is an award-winning educator, writer, activist, and scholar who believes deeply that love, equity, and justice are closely intertwined. He writes and speaks regularly on issues of diversity, inclusion, civil rights,
Bestselling author and award-winning physicist Brian Greene will discuss the cosmic philosophical implications of modern physics. What are we to make of quantum physics, with its paradoxical descriptions of reality; or of string theory, with
Join us for a conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer as she helps us rethink, reimagine and, renarrate our relationship to the sacred and the natural world. Can the objective, data-driven approach of science be enriched by
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An exploration of Whitman’s call in Leaves of Grass to “judge not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing.” Whitman’s inflects Jesus’s “judge not” as a call for radical democrats to
SCHEDULE | FEATURED SPEAKERS | ACCOMMODATIONS | SOCIAL HUB | REGISTRATION | BOOK EXHIBITS “Political Theology” covers a multidisciplinary field of research that engages the unwieldy relationship between religion and politics out of a desire for
Join us as we welcome new and returning students for the 184th academic year with words from Rev. Dr. Timothy Adkins-Jones and Dr. Julia Kelto Lillis. https://youtu.be/0ZziiEW07e8
Please join us on Wednesday, March 24, at 6:00 PM EST, for a virtual book launch for Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman (UVA Press, 2021) by Peter Eisenstadt. Click here to purchase
Join us on Thursday, March 25 at 6:00 pm EST for a lecture on Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal & Planetary Liberation with Brianne Donaldson. Brianne Donalson is the assistant professor in religious studies
Join us on Thursday, April 8 at 6:00 pm EST for a lecture on inner Animalities: Theology and the End of the Human with Dr. Eric Daryl Meyer. Professor Meyer is the Gregory Roeben and Susan Raunig
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