BCSR’s Graduate Student Event Grants support innovative proposals for graduate student-led lectures, seminars, and conferences for public and campus audiences. BCSR has awarded three $500 grants in support of the following,
Joseph Albernaz (English)
Deus Sive Veruft: Schelling’s Transformation of Spinoza’s God – March 18, 2015
Yitzhak Melamed (Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University), will give a lecture examining the complicated influence of Spinoza on the early philosophy of the German Idealist Schelling, and should interest anyone working in the fields of theology, philosophy, or their intersection.
Daniel Fisher (Near Eastern Studies)
Biblical Lives: The Hebrew Bible and the Construction of Jewish Life, September 1, 2015-June 30, 2016, Opening Panel: September 17, 2015
Biblical Lives explores the relationship between Judaism and material culture, through an exhibition and year of programming at The Magnes Collection. The project investigates the range of material ways Jews have connected with their shared biblical past — tangibly constructing themselves and their world in relation to the text with remarkable creativity.
Ashwak Hauter and William Stafford (Anthropology)
Classification, Instrumentation, Technique: Exploring the Thin Line Between Religion and Science, April 25, 2015
This conference intends to explore concepts and methods that index the thin line between science and religion. We will explore forms of classification, instrumentation, and technical practice as they frame this distinction, and questions of knowledge and its objects which arise therein.
UC Berkeley graduate students organizing events for Fall 2015 are invited to apply by the next application deadline of Thursday, April 30 (4 pm). Awards range from $250 to $500 for a lecture, and up to $1000 for a conference. Contact info.bcsr@berkeley.edu for more information.
Past Recipients
2014-15
Between the Visible and the Invisible: Cosmology, Ritual, and Hermeneutics in Historical and Contemporary Chinese Worlds
Jesse Chapman (East Asian Languages and Cultures) and Yueni Zhong (Art History)
2013-14
Leaps of Faith – Figurations of Belief in Literature and Critical Thought
Simone Stirner (Comparative Literature)