Events

Stuart Cohen

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Bar-Ilan University, Chair of the Department of Government and Politics at Ashkelon Academic College.

This lecture is intended for UC Berkeley students and faculty. Please RSVP.

California has increasingly displayed a remarkable range of religious expression through its people, places, institutions, movements, and theologies, and at times when religion in the rest of America has waned.

Rebecca Gordon, University of San Francisco

Susan Stinson, Writer in Residence, Forbes Library

Jonathan Edwards is considered America’s most brilliant theologian. He was also a slave owner. Spider in a Tree is the story of the years he spent preaching in eighteenth century Northampton, Massachusetts.

James L. Taylor, University of San Francisco

M. Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah

Sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), Center for Buddhist Studies

Speaker: Jeremy Menchik, Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Asia, Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

Speaker/Performer: Johan Elverskog, Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University, and Visiting Fellow, Stanford University

Sponsor: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)

Speaker/Performer: Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, Columbia University

Sponsor: Townsend Center for the Humanities