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Religious Studies team receives Interfaith Studies Award
May 22, 2014
The Interfaith Youth Core awarded $5,000 this spring to professors Jeffrey C. Pugh, Geoffrey D. Claussen and Amy L. Allocco to help in the development of an interfaith studies course sequence that might also serve as the precursor to a future minor in interfaith studies.
Eboo Patel to deliver 2014 Baccalaureate address – May 23
May 20, 2014
The founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core makes a return visit to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ this spring with words of wisdom for graduating seniors and their parents during the Commencement week program.
Evan Gatti publishes edited volume on the Episcopacy in Medieval Imagery
May 18, 2014
Evan Gatti, an associate professor of art history, co-edited and authored an essay in "Envisioning the Bishop: Images and the Episcopacy in the Middle Ages," published by Brepols Publishers in their Medieval Church Studies Series.
Evan Gatti presents No/Thing at International Medieval Congress
May 11, 2014
Evan A. Gatti, associate professor of art history, presented the paper "The Vercelli Roll: The No-Thing That It Is and the Thing It Might Be" in May 2014 in No/Thing: Medieval Art and Apophasis at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Holocaust survivor Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow to speak at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ – April 28
April 21, 2014
Major General Sidney Shachnow will be speaking at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ to mark the conclusion of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m.
Jewish artist Diane Palley to present and lead workshop at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ – April 24
April 20, 2014
The world-renowned artist will share her work in the Numen Lumen Pavilion on Thursday, April 24, at 5:30 p.m.
Amy L. Allocco publishes book chapter on 'Snakes in the Dark Age'
April 13, 2014
A contribution to the edited volume "Asian Perspectives on Animal Ethics: Rethinking the Nonhuman" theorizes vernacular Hindu snake worship traditions in Tamil Nadu, India as a model for human and nonhuman animal relationships and a constructive environmental ethic.
'The Greatest Stories Rarely Told: Biblical Scholars and the Discrepancies of Scripture' – April 10
April 4, 2014
Bart D. Ehrman of UNC-Chapel Hill visits campus for the James P. Elder Lecture in Whitley Auditorium at 6:30 p.m.
Book by Rebecca Todd Peters offers new ethical approach to living in global economy
March 31, 2014
"Solidarity Ethics: Transformation in a Globalized World" by ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Rebecca Todd Peters explores the moral challenges of living in a global economy and imagines new ways of combating social injustices by building deeper relationships with those who suffer.
Tibetan Buddhist teacher visits ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ – April 3
March 28, 2014
Geshe Gelek Chodha, resident teacher at the Kadampa Center for the practice of Tibetan Buddhism in the Gelugpa Tradition from Raleigh, will be at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ on Thursday, April 3, in the Numen Lumen Pavilion.