Multimedia

A Small Nation to Remember: Performance and Xicana Indígena Resistance
09.30.2010 Video

On September 30, 2010, as a way of celebrating Harvard Divinity School's ongoing initiative in Latino/a religious studies, Davíd Carrasco sponsored an evening and creative encounter with the...

Convocation 2010-11
08.31.2010 Video

On August 31, 2010, Peter Machinist delivered the 2010-11 Convocation Address, "An Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Defamiliarize." Laura S. Nasrallah, Associate Professor of New Testament and...

A Jamesian Personscape: The Fringe as Messaging to the 'Sick Soul'
05.06.2010 Video

On May 6, 2010, the William James Lecture on Religious Experience was delivered by John J. McDermott, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M University.

Toward a World Theology: Wilfred Cantwell Smith and the Center for the Study of World Religions
04.16.2010 Video

This lecture by Donald K. Swearer, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School, and director of the CSWR, was part of the CSWR 50th Anniversary Symposium. An...

50th Anniversary Symposium Panel Discussion on 'Center'
04.16.2010 Video

A panel chaired by Diana Eck, Harvard Divinity School, with Justin Ritzinger, PhD candidate, Harvard University; Diane Obenchain, Calvin College; and Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame....

50th Anniversary Symposium Panel Discussion on 'Study'
04.16.2010 Video

A panel chaired by Jane I. Smith, Harvard Divinity School, with Thomas Lewis, Brown University; Marla Frederick, Harvard University; and Luis Girón-Negrón, Harvard University. Part of the CSWR...

50th Anniversary Symposium Panel Discussion on 'World Religions'
04.16.2010 Video

A panel chaired by Janet Gyatso, Harvard Divinity School, with Devaka Premawardhana, PhD candidate, Harvard University; Steven Hopkins, Swarthmore College; and Hent de Vries, Johns Hopkins...

On Sympathy, Suspicion, and Studying Religion: Historical Reflections
04.15.2010 Video

This lecture by Leigh Schmidt, Charles Warren Professor of History of Religion in America, Harvard Divinity School, was part of the CSWR 50th Anniversary Symposium. An introduction was given by...

The 2010 Billings Preaching Prize
04.14.2010 Video

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students....

Reading Foucault: Becoming Again What We Never Were
04.12.2010 Video

As part of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Religion Forum 2009-10 Lecture Series, Mark D. Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity at HDS, presented "Reading Foucault: Becoming...