Colloquium Series

Throughout the year, the Department of Religious Studies organizes 2-4 colloquium meetings each quarter for departmental faculty and graduate students. The colloquia provide an opportunity for the Stanford Religious Studies community to learn about and engage with current research conducted by our faculty, post-docs, and graduate students. Occasionally we also feature the work of scholars beyond Stanford, who join us in person or via zoom. Barbara Pitkin (Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies) coordinates the colloquium series for the department.
Past Events
"How to Read a Text: Knowledge, Ritual, and Understanding in Early Chinese Religion and Philosophy"
"'There and Back Again'": Teaching about the Bible in American Public Schools
"January 6th, the 2024 Election, and the Ongoing Radicalization of American Evangelical Christianity"
Comparing and Explaining Experiences of "Presences" (spiritual or not): A case study in bridging between the humanities and the sciences
SherAli has been teaching at F&M since 2012. He received his PhD in Religious Studies from Duke University in 2012.
Traditions of Christian mystical thought rooted in darkness and unknowing have long employed images of the night, the desert and the abyss to signal the power of losses too deep to name or…
Calling all RS faculty, post-docs, current students, and prospective PhD students for a celebration of faculty books published since 2020.
Carolyn Chen is Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion and Executive…
Luther’s anti-Jewish polemics of 1543 are among his most notorious works.