Department of Religion - Events Schedule

Events Schedule | Papers In Progress Sessions (PIPS) | Brown Bag Colloquia

In addition to coursework, students are encouraged to attend the free extracurricular events hosted by the Department of Religion. These include graduate student presentations, faculty colloquia, and a variety of workshops put on by faculty and senior graduate students. Workshops focus on the skills students need to build their academic careers, such as applying for grants and other funding, writing personal statements for Ph.D. applications, and travelling abroad to develop foreign language skills. The schedule below displays all extracurricular events for the Spring 2013 semester.

**Spring 2013 Events**
Date	Presenter	Topic
February 8	Dimple	Modern Hindu Appropriations of Technology and the Internet
February 15	Drew	The Possible Influence of Indian Asceticism on Greek Orphism from Pythagoras to Proclus
February 22	Sam	The Influence of Sati on the Origin of Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code
March 1	Sara	Islamic Feminism in Saudi Arabia
March 15	Nani	The Hawaiian Vocabulary of the Unseen
March 18 (Monday 3– 4 p.m.) at Webster 112	Lecture by Professor David Gordon White from the University of California at Santa Barbara	Yoga, Tantra, and Alchemy (talk co-sponsored with the Center for South Asia)
March 22	Lecture by Prof. Nobuhiro Fukagawa from Ryūkoku University in Kyoto	Shinran's Teaching and Propagation of Shin Buddhism
April 11 (Thursday 3:30–4:30 p.m.) at the CJS	Lecture by Dr. Elisabetta Porcu, Numata Visiting Professor at UHM	Japanese Religions, Popular Culture and the Media
April 12 at 1 p.m.	Camille	TBA
April 12 at 2:30 p.m., room BUSAD D104	Undergraduate Religion Students Annual Meet & Greet
April 19
April 26

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