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 2012 semester.

Date	Event
January 13	Preliminary PIPS: Introduction to Graduate Student Presentations
January 20	George Breeden "Shintoism: An American Tradition?" Respondent: Jared Feller
January 27	Dr. Kobayashi Enshō "Who is the Youth Sudhana?" Brown Bag Colloquium Lecture
February 3
February 10	Suzanne Simpson Presentation on "Rabi'a"
February 17	Documentary Day: The Devil's Bible
February 24	Samuel Grimes "The Flawed Postmodern Perspectives on Contemporary and Future Religion" Respondent: Dimple Dhanani Adam Crabtree “Material Zen and the Question of Religiosity in the Contemporary Marketplace" Respondent: Aaron Reich
March 2	Dimple Dhanani "Seeing the Divine Image (Darshan) on the Internet" Respondent: George Breeden
March 9	Vacation Day
March 16	Camille Mori "Kakuban's Appropriation of Shingon Visualization Practices"
March 23
March 30	SPRING BREAK
April 6	Graduate Student Presentation by George Breeden Respondent: Adam Crabtree
April 13
April 20	Graduate Student Presentation by Jared Feller Respondent: George Breeden
April 27
May 4

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