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News & Events

HDS Panel IDs Crises in African American Community
04.13.2006 News Story Harvard Gazette

One predicament per speaker seemed to be the rule at HDS as ministry and service leaders gathered to discuss African-American religious responses to crisis.
Olupona Named Professor of African Studies, Religion
04.12.2006 News Story Harvard Gazette

Jacob K. Olupona has been appointed professor of African and African-American studies and religion in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Divinity School.
Nothing Is Ever Escaped': Public History and the African American Historic Landscape
Nothing Is Ever Escaped': Public History and the African American Historic Landscape
04.11.2006 Audio

This luncheon seminar with Edward Linenthal, Professor of History, Indiana University, and editor of the Journal of American History, was hosted by Robert Orsi, Charles Warren Professor of the...
Roundtable Conversation on Evolution, Ethics, and Theology
04.06.2006 Video

On April 6, 2006, Harvard University biologists, ethicists, and theologians discussed the intersections of their fields in this fourth event in a series of lectures sponsored by the Evolution and...
Toward a Theology of Sound: Drum Talk, Oricha Worship, and Other Ecstatic Phenomena
Toward a Theology of Sound: Drum Talk, Oricha Worship, and Other Ecstatic Phenomena
04.05.2006 Audio

Katherine Hagedorn is Associate Professor of Music and director of the Ethnomusicology Program at Pomona College. Her presentation was part of the CSWR World Religions Café series.
Emergent Asia: Whither Religion?
Emergent Asia: Whither Religion?
04.04.2006 Audio

A lecture by Chandra Muzaffar, Malaysian Islamic religious and political scholar; advocate for human rights; president, International Movement for a Just World (Malaysia); and author of Human...
Taoist Priestesses in Medieval China: Roles, Images, and Identity
03.20.2006 Audio

This lecture was delivered by Jia Jinhua, PhD (City University of Hong Kong), Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor of World Religions.
A Spiritual Mentor's Lasting Influence: Henri Nouwen
03.20.2006 News Story

Although Henri Nouwen's stay was brief, his teaching at Harvard Divinity School changed the course of many lives.
Feminism, Inc.: North American Feminist Theologies and Globalization
03.20.2006 Video

A talk by Thandeka, Visiting Associate Professor of Theology at HDS, Senior Research Professor at Meadville Lombard Theological School, with respondents Ilene Stanford (ThD student in Religion,...
Ethics, Values, and the Environment Conference Welcome and Introduction
Ethics, Values, and the Environment Conference Welcome and Introduction
03.18.2006 Video

Daniel Schrag is Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University and director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment.