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Past Speakers:
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“Religion, Coloniality, and Resistance – Religious Studies Speaker Series”<\/em>
Shreena Gandhi<\/strong>, “Yoga, Cultural Appropriation, and Whiteness”
Nurjahan Boulden<\/a><\/strong>, “Reclaiming Belly Dance as Resistance”
William D. Hart<\/a><\/strong>, “The Discourse on Settler Colonialism”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Women’s Education on the Roof of the World: Intentional Change for Girls and Nuns in 21st Century Ladakh”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A talk with Geshe Lobsang Tseten and Ven. Tenzen Dasel, April, 2023<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Amy Hollywood<\/a>, “That Book Has Been Read:  Surface and Depth, Reading Susan Howe,”<\/em> <\/a>November, 2018<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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David Friedenreich<\/a>, “Food and Jewishness:  Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives,” <\/em>November, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Natasha Mikles<\/a>, “Saving our Mothers from Hell:  Gesar, Mulian, and the <\/em>“Good Buddhist”.  October, 2017<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Damon Berry<\/strong><\/a>, “‘Our Race is Our Religion’:  Racial Protectionism and Religion in American White Nationalism,” March, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Hedges<\/strong>, “The Moral Imperative of Revolt,” February, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karlene Griffiths Sekou<\/strong>, “Anti-Colonial Resistance and the Power of the People,” March, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fatuma Hussein<\/strong><\/a>, “Post-Election Perspectives of Muslim Immigrant Women in Maine,” March, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nathanael Andrade<\/a>, “On the Trail of the Apostle Thomas throughout a Connected Afro-Eurasia,”<\/em> March, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laura McTighe<\/a>, “‘The System Was Designed to Fail Me’: Religion, Incarceration, and the Erasure of Black Women,” <\/em>April, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlene Sinclair<\/a>, “Resurrecting the Dead: Introducing a Necro-ethic of Resistance to Mass Incarceration and Criminalization,” <\/em>March, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lerone Martin<\/a>, “‘J. Edgar Hoover’s Stained Glass Window’:  The FBI and Christian America,” <\/em>March, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Dubler<\/a>, “Why Not Prison Abolition?”  <\/i>February, 2016<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Christine Hoff Kraemer<\/a>, “Eros and Touch from a Pagan Perspective:  Loving Touch as Divine Birthright,”  <\/em>April, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janet Bennion<\/a>,“Progressive Polygamy in North America:  Is Plural Marriage the New Civil Rights Frontier?”<\/em>  March, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kent Brintnall<\/a>, “Refusing Redemption:  Making Catholic Sex Abuse ‘Our’ Story,”<\/em>  March, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Marchal<\/a>, “Appa(u)lling Bodies:  Queerly Reconfiguring Paul’s Letters,”<\/em>  February, 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Aghapour<\/a>, “Pedagogy of the Possessed: Improv Comedy in the Classroom,”  <\/em>January, 2016<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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John Gager, “Let’s Meet Downtown at the Synagogue:  Jews and Greeks in the Ancient World,”<\/a> March, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Allen Harris, filmmaker, “Through A Lens Darkly:  Black Photographers and The Emergence of A People,” <\/a>March, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russell J. Hopley<\/a>, “Sicily:  A Mediterranean Island at the Crossroads of Byzantium and Islam,” <\/em>November, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ali Humayun Akhtar<\/a>, “Byzantium in Ottoman Clothing:  Greeks of Istanbul and the Music of Rembetiko,”<\/em> November, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Georgopoulou<\/a>, <\/span>“Venice, Byzantium, and Islam:  Trade and the Arts in the Medieval Mediterranean,”  <\/em>October, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michelle Campos<\/a>, “Between Empire and Nation:  Muslims, Christians, and Jews and the end of the Ottoman Empire,”  <\/em>April, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ali Humayun Akhtar<\/a>, “Post-Graffiti Damascus and Cairo:  Arab Street Art as a Global Aesthetic,”<\/em>   March, 2013.   <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nebahat Avcioglu<\/a>, <\/span>“Turquerie and Orientalism:  Cultural Transfer between Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th Centuries,”<\/em>  March, 2013. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Rodr\u00edguez-Sol\u00e1s<\/a>, “Coming to Terms with Islamic Spain:  Contemporary Stagings of Early Modern Spanish Theatre,”  <\/em>March, 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jeffrey Jackson<\/a>, “Paris Under Water.  How The City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910,”<\/em>  April, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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