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BCSR Spring 2022 Events

Miranda Schonbrun January 1, 2022

Must a Caliph be Popular? The Theological and Legal Ramifications of Early Muslim Leadership Selection

Miranda Schonbrun January 20, 2022

Voting the Divine

January 20, 2022 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google

This hybrid event will be held in person at Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, on the UC Berkeley campus. Physical attendance will be limited. The event will also be available online via Zoom. Registration is required here

Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies and Principal Investigator on the Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi’ite Islam Project, University of Exeter

After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Muslim community began to debate his successor. The various factions, and the events which followed were to reverberate through the centuries – debates around the proper qualities of a leader, how the leader should be selected, and when and how might the people depose this leader dominated […]

Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism: Race, Religion, and Democracy

Hannah Hartt February 10, 2022

Public Forum on Race, Religion, Democracy and the American Dream

February 10, 2022 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google

This hybrid event will be held in person in 3335 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Physical attendance will be limited to 35 guests. The event will also be available online via Zoom. Registration is required here

Jonathan Tran, Professor of Philosophical Theology and George W. Baines Chair of Religion, Department of Religion, Baylor University

Why does contemporary antiracism devolve into identity politics and white guilt, each of which leaves standing structures and systems destructive to minoritized life? Why does antiracism marginalize Asian Americans, those already marginalized by racism? Can religion, and Christianity in particular, play a constructive role in anti-racism’s democratic future? Developing themes from his recent book, Asian […]

The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom

Miranda Schonbrun February 16, 2022

Public Forum on Race, Religion, Democracy and the American Dream

February 16, 2022 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google

Sahar Aziz, Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar Rutgers University Law School

Why does a country with religious liberty enmeshed in its legal and social structures produce such overt prejudice and discrimination against Muslims? Sahar Aziz’s groundbreaking book demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the Racial Muslim. Comparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African […]

Through the Looking Glass: Perspectives on the Interaction Between ‘Politics’ and ‘Religion’ in Ancient Greece

Miranda Schonbrun February 22, 2022

Debates on Sanskrit Grammar: Vyākaraṇa Workshop

Miranda Schonbrun February 25, 2022

I Know the Truth: Muhammad Ali, Brainwashing, and the Racial Politics of Religious Authenticity

Hannah Hartt March 3, 2022

The Defiant Middle: How Women Claim Life’s In-Betweens to Remake the World

Hannah Hartt March 14, 2022

Co-sponsored Event

March 14, 2022 / 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm / Add to Google

This free hybrid event will take place in person at 3335 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Physical attendance will be limited, and the event will also be available online via Zoom. For online or in-person accessibility needs contact robin_pearce@berkeley.edu. Click here to register.

Kaya Oakes, Continuing Lecturer in College Writing, UC Berkeley and Ronit Stahl, Professor of History, Interim Administrative Chair of the Religious Diversity Cluster, UC Berkeley

Join author Kaya Oakes for a book talk about her recently published The Defiant Middle: How Women Claim Life’s In-Betweens to Remake the World, followed by a conversation with History professor Ronit Stahl, Interim Administrative Chair of the Religious Diversity Cluster. In The Defiant Middle, Kaya Oakes explores how transitional eras or living in marginalized female identities […]

A Buddhist Sensibility | Book Talk with Dominique Townsend and Stacey Van Vleet

Hannah Hartt March 15, 2022

Made Instrument, Made Flesh, Made Blackqueer

Hannah Hartt March 16, 2022

Racial Capitalism’s Inner Life: Security, Police Power, and the Tactics of Ensoulment

Hannah Hartt March 28, 2022

Rifts and Revelations: How Religion Has Shaped Pandemic Responses in the United States

Hannah Hartt March 31, 2022

Consensus and Early Islamic Law

Miranda Schonbrun April 12, 2022

Voting from the Rooftops: Reflections on Religion and Politics from Mughal India

Miranda Schonbrun April 27, 2022

Author Meets Critics: “Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley”

Hannah Hartt September 30, 2022

Co-sponsored Event

September 30, 2022 / 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm / Add to Google

This hybrid event will be held in person at Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building, on the UC Berkeley campus. We will also broadcast the event via Zoom and will send a link to registrants prior to the event. Register to attend.

Carolyn Chen, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley; Arlie R. Hochschild, Professor Emerita of Sociology at UC Berkeley; Morgan Ames, Assistant Professor of Practice in the School of Information and Associate Director of Research for the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society at UC Berkeley

In this “Author Meets Critics” panel, Carolyn Chen, Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies, will present her book, Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley. Professor Chen will be joined in conversation by Arlie Hochschild, Professor Emerita in the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology, and Morgan Ames, Assistant […]

Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular

Bex Sussman October 10, 2022

Public Forum on Race, Religion, Democracy and the American Dream

October 10, 2022 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google
3335 Dwinelle

David Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of History Emeritus at UC Berkeley; Carolyn Chen, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley; Ronit Stahl, Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley; Christopher Ocker, Professor of the History of Christianity at San Francisco Theological Seminary

Please join us for this timely panel, as David Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor Emeritus in the UC Berkeley Department of History, will present his new book, Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular. Professor Hollinger will be joined in conversation by Carolyn Chen, Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley Department […]

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BCSR Spring 2022 Events

Must a Caliph be Popular? The Theological and Legal Ramifications of Early Muslim Leadership Selection

Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism: Race, Religion, and Democracy

The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom

Through the Looking Glass: Perspectives on the Interaction Between ‘Politics’ and ‘Religion’ in Ancient Greece

Debates on Sanskrit Grammar: Vyākaraṇa Workshop

I Know the Truth: Muhammad Ali, Brainwashing, and the Racial Politics of Religious Authenticity

The Defiant Middle: How Women Claim Life’s In-Betweens to Remake the World

A Buddhist Sensibility | Book Talk with Dominique Townsend and Stacey Van Vleet

Made Instrument, Made Flesh, Made Blackqueer

Racial Capitalism’s Inner Life: Security, Police Power, and the Tactics of Ensoulment

Rifts and Revelations: How Religion Has Shaped Pandemic Responses in the United States

Consensus and Early Islamic Law

Voting from the Rooftops: Reflections on Religion and Politics from Mughal India

Author Meets Critics: “Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley”

Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular

Democratic Imaginaries in Late Antiquity

Going Through the Motions: Anthropology, Black Studies, and Creative Ethnography

The Pastoral is Political: Abortion Travel and Religious Activism Before Roe v. Wade

Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians

Hobbes on Causation and the Project of Leviathan

Medicine as Sacrament: Spanish and Indigenous Catholic Responses to Epidemics in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Gerald D. and Norma Feldman Annual Lecture | Masculinity and Imperial Representation in the Later Roman Empire

Postponed | The Religion of Whiteness and the Doctrine of the Strong Man

BCSR Fall 2022 Events