May 4, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Lecture: Faith and Rational Deference to Authority Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium Sprague & Taylor Annual Lecture: Professor Lara Buchak, Princeton University Lara Buchak argues that it can be rational to defer to an authority in what to believe or what to
May 17, 2023 Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia Faculty Day 2023: Medieval/Modern: Confronting the Audience in Monasticism and Performance Art Student Center with Lauren Mancia, in panel on “Christianity in Unexpected Places.” E-mail Lauren Mancia or Karl Steel if you have any questions. All students and faculty are welcome. This event is part of Faculty
May 17, 2023 Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia Faculty Day 2023: Why Study the Premodern World? Student Center Lunchtime roundtable with David Brodsky, Lauren Mancia, Nicola Masciandaro, Tanya Pollard, David Schur, and Karl Steel. E-mail Lauren Mancia or Karl Steel if you have any questions. All students and faculty are welcome.
June 5, 2023 - June 6, 2023 Event Series LAMEM Spring 2023 Colloquia Fragments of Experience: Approaching “Lived Religion” From Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages Library, Room 411, Samuel and Bernice Gottlieb Room Poster for Fragments of Experience: Approaching “Lived Religion” From Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages With papers on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the conference considers the question of “lived
September 6, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series LAMEM Fall 2023 Colloquia Will, Subjectivity, and Contemplative Practice in the Cloud author and Walter Hilton Boylan Hall, Room 2405 with Joseph Romano, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University E-mail Professor Nicola Masciandaro if you have any questions or for the Zoom links. All students and faculty are welcome.
September 7, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series Interdisciplinary Program Directors Meeting Interdisciplinary Program Directors Meeting
September 13, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm “Black Classicisms:” Celebrating the Life and Works of Professor Gail Smith Library, Room 150, Woody Tanger Auditorium A memorial lecture by Patrice Rankine ’92.
September 26, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm New Books by BC Faculty Series: Daniel Campos “Sino peripatetico” On Transnational Lives/Sobre las vidas transnacionales Online Philosophy Professor Daniel Campos's philosophical memoir Sino peripatético (New York: Sudaquia Editores, 2023) will serve as the starting point for a conversation on the transnational lives of people who, in the
September 28, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Advocating Empathy and Reconciliation in the Midst of Conflict Student Center, Room 618, Gold Room Professor Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi and Rabbi Jill Jacobs will speak about how to advocate for empathy, even when one’s own community is caught up in a conflict.
October 2, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm “The Fight for Free Speech”: A conversation with author Ian Rosenberg and Brooklyn College Interim Provost April Whatley Bedford Online Ian Rosenberg and Brooklyn College Interim Provost April Whatley Bedford will discuss his important and timely book, The Fight for Free Speech.