Calendar
The Religious Studies Department is proud to be involved with three ongoing lecture series, the Rockwell Lectures, the Burkitt Lectures, and the Dugan Lecture Series. More information about each of these is available at left.
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Below is a rolling calendar of the Department's Events. Please join us!
CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS SPRING, 2010
BURKITT PUBLIC LECTURE, April
15, 7:30-9 p.m.
Kyle
Morrow Room, Fondren Library
Kocku von Stuckrad, University of
Groningen
“The Esoteric Quest and Western Culture”
Related—Rockwell Symposium
“Hidden God, Hidden Histories”
see hyperlink for full Symposium program in Adobe Acrobat format
see hyperlink for detailed Symposium schedule in Adobe
Acrobat format
DOCTORAL DEFENSES
Thesis Defense Graduate
and Postdoctoral Studies
Religious
Studies
Speaker:
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Hua-Chen Lin
Doctoral Candidate
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Crushed Pearls: The Revival and
Transformation of the Buddhist Nuns’ Order in Taiwan
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Monday, April 5, 2010
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
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215 Humanities Building
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Speaker:
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Torin Alexander
Doctoral Candidate
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"What Meaneth
This?": A Postmodern
'Theory' of African American Religious Experience
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Monday, April 5, 2010
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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215 Humanities Building
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Speaker:
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ChingHui Ying
Doctoral Candidate
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Being and Knowing in Wholeness:
Chinese Chan, Tibetan Dzogchen, and the Logic of Immediacy in Contemplation
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Monday, April 12, 2010
2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
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215 Humanities Building
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Speaker:
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Andrea Jain
Doctoral
Candidate
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Health, Well-Being, and the Ascetic Ideal: Modern
Yoga in the Jain Terapanth |
Monday, April 12, 2010
10:00 AM
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215 Humanities Building
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