News & Events

News & Events

Baber Johansen Named Professor of Islamic Religious Studies
03.05.2005 News Story

Baber Johansen, one of the world's most eminent scholars of Islamic studies, has accepted a tenured position at HDS.
Symposium Re-enters 'Secular City'
03.03.2005 News Story Harvard Gazette

Harvey Cox's book is still provocative after all these years.
Mourning Women and Lost Daughters in Rome's Catacombs of the Via Latina
03.01.2005 Audio

This lecture was delivered by Nicola Denzey, PhD (Bowdoin College), Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Christian History.
Q&A With Jocelyne Cesari: Islam and Democracy
02.03.2005 News Story

Wendy McDowell sat down with Jocelyne Cesari to talk about the important discoveries that resulted from her years of research about Muslims on both sides of the Atlantic.
Glances at Artful Signs of Ages Past
01.15.2005 News Story

Some background on the printers' marks in the windows of Andover Hall, Harvard's only gothic-style building.
Indie Rocker Andrew Morgan Is Reluctant Front Man
12.23.2004 News Story

Even after releasing a critically acclaimed solo album and touring in England under his Manchester, England-based record label, MTS student Andrew Morgan says he misses being a side man.
Mexico Honors Carrasco as 'A Man of Our Time'
12.16.2004 News Story Harvard Gazette

Davíd Carrasco has received the highest decoration the Mexican government can bestow on a foreign national, the Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca (Order of the Aztec Eagle).
Ministry in a Time of War: A Public Conversation with Jim Wallis and Local Religious Leaders and Scholars
11.29.2004 Video

On November 29, 2004, Jim Wallis, Visiting Lecturer on Religion and Society, and founder of Sojourners and Call to Renewal; Mary Luti, Pastor of First Church, Cambridge (United Church of Christ);...
David Hall Finds 17th-Century Puritan Texts 'Inexhaustible'
11.15.2004 News Story

David D. Hall, the John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, has taught at HDS since 1989. HDS staff writer Wendy McDowell sat down with Hall recently to talk with him about...
Meditations on the Immortality of the Buddha
10.28.2004 Video

Donald Lopez, Helmut F. Stern and Carl W. Belser Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, University of Michigan, delivered the 2004 Ingersoll Lecture on October 28, 2004.