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Events Online Harvard Divinity School is pleased to be able to offer a selection of HDS public events for viewing over the World Wide Web. To view, click the appropriate title. (Streamed audio and video content on this site is delivered in RealMedia format. The latest versions of RealPlayer or RealAlternative are compatible with this site, and one of these will need to be installed to access streamed media. The preferred browser is Internet Explorer; videos may not play in other browsers.) More events online are available from the Center for the Study of World Religions and from the Women's Studies in Religion Program's lecture series. Alumni/ae Day 2008 (06/08) Mandala of Compassion Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation Alumni/ae Day Luncheon Program Use of Space: From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary Davíd Carrasco discussing the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2. Photo: Steve Gilbert. Theorizing Race and Ethnicity in Theology and the Study of Religion Speaker Series (05/08) Translations Within English: Writing for Academic, Religious, and Popular Audiences (04/08)  The 2008 Billings Preaching Prize Competition (04/08) The 2008 Dudleian Lecture: Negative Theologies and the Cross (04/08) The 2008 William James Lecture: Imagination, Not Culture: A Singular Example (04/08) Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Religion Speaker Series: The 'African' in African American Religion (04/08) Dynamics of Oppression—What Happened to the Young Refugees Who Fled Nazi Persecution? Support, Success, and Sorrow (03/08) Hip-Hop and Religion: A Forum on the Religious Sensibilities of Hip-Hop Culture (02/08) Finding Our Way: A Conference on the Church (12/07) Enchantment and Disenchantment in the Evangelical Tradition: A Lecture to Inaugurate the McDonald Family Professorship (11/07) The 2007-08 Convocation Address: On the Question of Relevance: Why Twelfth-Century India and Haitian Voudou Matter (09/07) Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Religion Speaker Series, with Rudy Busto (10/07) Alumni/ae Day 2007 (06/07) Religion and Filmmaking Panel Jesus Camp Screening and Discussion Keynote Address: Finding Passion and Purpose Performance by Nokuthula Ngwenyama Science, Beauty, and God: Reflections on the Meanings of Scientific Discovery  (04/07) Buddhism and Science: Tibetan and Zen Buddhist Perspectives (04/07) The 2007 Williams James Lecture: This Is Not a Religious Experience: Muslims in the West and the Specter of Extermination (04/07) Panel Discussion on Evolution, Cooperation, and Gender (04/07) 2007 Harvard Divinity School Leadership Council (04/07) Harvard Stem Cell Institute Public Forum: Religious Perspectives on Stem Cell Research (03/07) James Luther Adams: Evangelical Unitarian or Unitarian Evangelical? (03/07) Buddhist Arts of Ministry and Leadership: A Buddhist Perspective on Care of the Dying (03/07) Evolution and Theology of Cooperation Project: Evolution and Christianity (03/07) A Conversation With Drew Gilpin Faust (03/07) Gender Studies and Religious Subjects: Perspectives Across Disciplines—Women's Studies in Religion Program Conference (02/07) Identity and Difference Theory and Politics Agency and Social Context Solutions: Emerging Trends in Community Transformation (02/07) Evolution and Theology of Cooperation Project: The Creation (02/07) Women Gender and Religion Forum: Male Spirits and Female Bodies—African American Women and the Paradoxes of Gender (12/06) Buddhist Arts of Ministry and Leadership: Enlightening the Emotions (11/06) The Song of Songs: Between the Scholarly and the Professional (11/06) The 2006 Ingersoll Lecture: Strange Fruit: The Cross and the Lynching Tree (10/06) Buddhist Arts of Ministry and Leadership (10/06) Women and Gender in Religion Forum: The Pedagogical Image: The Gendered Body, Greco-Roman Statuary, and the Early Christian Imagination (10/06) Credible and Non-Credible Models for Mediating Between Biology and Theories of Altruism (10/06) The 2006-07 Convocation Address: Borderlands and the 'biblical hurricane': Images and Stories of Latin American Rhythms of Life (09/06) The 2006 Paul Tillich Lecture: Encountering the 'Other' in a World of Difference and Danger (05/06) God, Evolution, and Agape (05/06) Women and Gender in Religion Forum: Thinking About Women and Heresy (05/06) The 2006 Dudleian Lecture: Jesus and Shylock: Feminist Views of Christianity's Jews (04/06) The 2006 William James Lecture: Dancing With God in a World of Crucifixion (04/06) Self-Interest, Morality, and Cooperation (04/06) Roundtable Conversation on Evolution, Ethics, and Theology (04/06) Women and Gender in Religion Forum: Feminism, Inc.—North American Feminist Theologies and Globalization (03/06) Acute Melancholia: A Lecture to Inaugurate the Elizabeth H. Monrad Chair (03/06) Women and Gender in Religion Forum: Panel Discussion (02/06) Darwin and God: Then and Now (02/06) Border Crossings: Women's Studies in Religion Program 25th Anniversary Conference (02/06; audio only) National Borders/Gender Borders Crossing Gender, Genre, and Politics Borders of Race, Religion, and Discipline Women in Ministry  (02/06) Women and Gender in Religion Forum: On Desire and Gender (12/05) Why Isn't Altruism Abnormal? Contemporary Cosmological and Teleological Arguments for the Existence of God, and the Evolution of Altruism (12/05) Seasons of Light Concert: A Celebration of Light  (12/05) The 2005 Ingersoll Lecture: Is Immortality Important? (11/05) HDS Leadership Council Meeting (10/05) Religion and Politics in the Middle East: A View From Within Remarks by President Lawrence H. Summers Religious Pluralism: Civic and Theological Perspectives Faculty Panel: Religion and Government—A Global Perspective Alumni/ae Panel: HDS—Shaping the Future of Religion and Leadership Virtue Its Own Reward? Evolution, Religion, and the Internalization of Cooperation (10/05) The 2005-06 Convocation Address: A Short Half Century—Fifty Years of Women at Harvard Divinity School (09/05) Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 20th Anniversary Celebration (06/05) The 2005 Paul Tillich Lecture: After the 'Death of God': Friedrich Nietzsche and Paul Tillich (05/05) The 2005 McDonald Conference on Evangelical Theology: Evangelical Perspectives on Christian Spirituality and Ministry (05/05) Evangelism and the Challenges of Religious Diversity Only Beauty Should Preach Repentance: The Future of the Gospel and a Poetics of Ministry The Christian Scriptures as a Resource for Spirituality and Ministry Evangelical Spirituality and Ministries of Social Justice Thoughts on the Future of the Catholic Church (04/05; audio only) Let Justice Roll (04/05) The 2005 Dudleian Lecture: Memory, Perdition, and Salvation (03/05) Into All the World: Black Pentecostalism in Global Contexts (03/05) The 2005 William James Lecture: Visions and Visualizations in the Here and Hereafter (03/05) The Secular City Revisited (02/05) Ministry in A Time of War: A Public Conversation with Jim Wallis and Local Religious Leaders and Scholars (11/04) Race, Religion, Politics: Tillich and the Black Preacher (11/04) The 2004 Ingersoll Lecture: Meditations on the Immortality of the Buddha (10/04) Economics, Class, and Religion: Interdisciplinary Methological Approaches (10/04) American National Identity: What Are the Challenges? (10/04) The 2004-05 Convocation Address: The Backwards Glance—the Forward Look (09/04) The Ethical Complexity of Embryonic Stem Cell Research (06/04) Realities & Theologies: Immigration, Labor, and Religion in U.S. Latino Communities—Panel I (05/04) Realities & Theologies: Immigration, Labor, and Religion in U.S. Latino Communities—Panel II (05/04) Faith in Boston: How Congregations Matter in a Changing Metropolis (05/04) Session I: Boston's Triple Revolution: Spatial, Economic, and Demographic Session II: Congregations, Communities, and Social Capital Session III: The Multicultural Metropolis and the Religious Construction of Race Session IV: Ministry to Youth at Risk: Serving and/or Including Session V: Theological Understandings of the Changing Metropolis  The Buddhist Meditative Askesis: Probing the Visionary Experience (04/04) 2004 Billings Preaching Prize (04/04) A Conversation With Jonathan Kozol (04/04) Panel on Mel Gibson's film Passion of the Christ (03/04; audio only) The McDonald Lectures on Evangelical Christianity: Religion and Science—Conflict or Concord? (Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame) (03/04) Part I: Science and Christian Belief—Surface Conflict but Deep Concord Part II: Science and Philosophical Naturalism—Surface Concord but Deep Conflict Ministry Colloquium: Crossing by Faith: Preaching and the Journey from Youth to Adulthood (03/04; audio only) Marriage in Early Muslim Law: The Consolidation of Male Authority (2/04; audio only) Manifestations of Shiva (11/03) (Courtesy of Harvard@Home) The American Empire: Globalization, War, and Religion (9/03; audio only) The 2003 Dudleian Lecture: In the Beginning Was Consciousness (5/03) The 2003 William James Lecture: The Religious Experience of Jesus (03/03) Holy Debate! (3/03) Making the "Disappeared" Visible (12/02) The Desire for Eternal Life: Scientific Versus Religious Visions (11/02) Religion and the Feminist Movement: A Women's Studies in Religion Program conference (11/02) Religion and "The Movement" Feminist Theology I Feminist Theology II Women Clergy Outsiders Within Women's Organizations Voices From the Past Addressing Our Present (3/02) Islam and America (11/01) (Courtesy of Harvard@Home) The Question of Faith After September 11 (10/01) Dimensions of the Tragedy: An Opportunity to Think and Talk (09/01) Human Rights and the Struggle for Justice (4/01) U.S. Policy and Bosnia: Religion, Human Rights, and Peace (4/01) The Environment as the Moral Challenge of Our Moment (3/01) Constantine's Sword: The Catholic Church's Tragic Engagement with Judaism (2/01) Israel and the Palestinians: Religion and the Prospects for Peace (11/00) Zionism and Judaism: The Paradox of National Liberation (10/00) The New Emerson and the Question of Religious Experience (10/00)