Day Lecture

Gorgas Library, Camelia Room

10th Annual Day Lecture

Gorgas Library, Camelia Room

Join us for Prof. Samah Choudhury's 10th annual Day Lecture.

Free

Fall REL Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentation

Gorgas Library, Camelia Room

REL students Steve Heaton and Scarlett Rose Ford will be presenting some of their departmental honors research. Prof. Steven Ramey and Prof. Richard Newton will be responding to their work. We welcome those who'd like to see and celebrate the work some of our undergraduates are doing.

Why Study Religion?: A Conversation About the Relevance of the Humanities

Gorgas Library, Camelia Room

Why study religion? What is useful about the skills we learn in humanities courses? Join us for a conversation with two early career scholars of religion about how they ended up studying religion, why they think the study of religion is valuable, and how the humanities continue to be relevant beyond the academy. Our guests: Travis Cooper holds a double PhD in Religious Studies and Anthropology and lectures at Butler University. His dissertation project, “The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and

Why Study Religion?: A Conversation About the Relevance of the Humanities

Gorgas Library, Camelia Room

Why study religion? What is useful about the skills we learn in humanities courses? Join us for a conversation with two early career scholars of religion about how they ended up studying religion, why they think the study of religion is valuable, and how the humanities continue to be relevant beyond the academy. Our guests: Travis Cooper holds a double PhD in Religious Studies and Anthropology and lectures at Butler University. His dissertation project, “The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and