BCSR is pleased to announce its 2015-16 program of public lectures and events. Scholars and artists from a wide range of backgrounds will address diverse topics in religion, from the lives of cloistered nuns in New Jersey, to fifteenth-century Persian painting, to the role of Christians in the articulation of religious identity in the Mongol Empire. The annual Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance brings Professor Veena Das to explore the boundaries of the self and the tameness of the concept of religious tolerance.
The upcoming season also adds Theology and East Asian Traditions, a new series funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Theology and East Asian Traditions will hold a lecture by Vincent Goossaert on the history of Chinese divine bureaucracy, followed by a two-day workshop on the reception of European categories in East Asia.
Radical Love: A Photographic Narrative of Cloistered Religious Life
Toni Greaves, Photographer
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
3335 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley Seminars in Art and Religion
“Tablet of Being”: Persian Painting and the Demiurgic Artist in Fifteenth Century Iran and Central Asia
Lamia Balafrej, Assistant Professor of Art, Wellesley College
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
370 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley Seminars in Art and Religion
Beyond the Second Commandment: Image Wars in Past and Present
Birgit Meyer, Professor of Religious Studies, Utrecht University
Thursday, November 19, 2015
370 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley Public Forum on Religion
Theology and the Danish Politics of Offense
Noreen Khawaja, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University
Thursday, February 4, 2016
370 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley Public Forum on Religion
More than Religious Tolerance: Self, Other, and Mysteries of Erotics
Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance
Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition: Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer
Colloquium with Veena Das
Wednesday, February 24, 2016, 4-6 pm
3401 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance
The Mongols and the Church of the East
Joel Walker, Jon Bridgman Endowed Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
3335 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley Public Forum on Religion
A Brief History of the Chinese Divine Bureaucracy
Vincent Goossaert, Directeur d’études, Sciences religieuses, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
3335 Dwinelle Hall
Theology and East Asian Traditions
Workshop | The Reception and Impact of “Theology,” “Religion,” and “Philosophy” in East Asia
Thursday, March 17 and Friday, March 18, 2016
3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Berkeley Public Theology Program: Theology and East Asian Traditions
If I Give My Soul: Pentecostalism in the Prisons of Rio
Andrew Johnson, Filmmaker and Co-Director
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Film Screening and Discussion
Sibley Auditorium
Berkeley Seminars in Art and Religion
All events take place at UC Berkeley and start at 5 pm unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public.
By connecting scholars, students, and the global community, BCSR fosters critical and creative scholarship on religion and activates this scholarship for UC Berkeley students and the public at large.
Presented with the support of UC Berkeley’s Division of Arts and Humanities, and the Endowed Fund for the Study of Religious Tolerance. Theology and East Asian Traditions is presented with the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation. Selected events co-sponsored by the History of Art Department, Late Antique Religions et Societies, and the Eliaser Chair in International Studies.