Future Events

[Rescheduled] Author Meets Critic: "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley"

Co-sponsored Event

April 29, 2022 / 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm / Add to Google

This event has been rescheduled to Fall 2022. Date TBA.

Carolyn Chen, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley; Arlie R. Hochschild, Professor Emerita of Sociology at UC Berkeley; Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University

Please join us for this “Author Meets Critics” panel, as Carolyn Chen, Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies, will present her new 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, […]

[Rescheduled] Author Meets Critic: "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley"

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

Voting the Divine

April 27, 2022 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google

This hybrid event will be held in person in 370 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Physical attendance will be limited. The event will also be available online via Zoom. Registration is required here

Abhishek Kaicker, Associate Professor, Department of History

Given the apparent lack of engagement with Greco-Roman thought on democracy and republicanism in India before modernity, in what way might we relate a history of voting the divine in the region? In this lecture I will suggest that despite the absence of practices such as voting, we may observe the entanglement of the practices […]

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

Consensus and Early Islamic Law

Voting the Divine

April 12, 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. The event will also be available online via Zoom. Registration is required here

Asad Q. Ahmed, Professor; Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

This lecture investigates democratic approaches to legal formulations in Islam from the perspective of the principle of consensus. Accepted as having probative force in practically all Islamic legal traditions, the principle is often understood in pre-modern and modern literature as a means of establishing positive law by appeal to the customary practices in a region […]

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

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

Co-sponsored Event

March 28, 2022 / 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm / Add to Google

This event will take place online via Zoom. Registration is required here

Lee Medovoi, Professor in the Department of English at the University of Arizona

In Cedric Robinson’s early iteration, “racial capitalism,” placed antiblackness at the heart of capitalist historical dynamics by showing how the black/white color line has motored the process of capital accumulation. Yet racial capitalism has additional applications. It engages the expropriative logic of settler colonial seizures of land and resources, where capitalist racialization provides the alibi […]

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

Made Instrument, Made Flesh, Made Blackqueer

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

March 15, 2022 / 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm / Add to Google

This event will take place online via Zoom. Registration is required here

Dominique Townsend, Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at Bard College and Stacey Van Vleet, Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley

Stacey Van Vleet will join Dominique Townsend to discuss Townsend’s latest book, A Buddhist Sensibility. A Buddhist Sensibility generates a novel perspective on Tibetan Buddhist history by focusing on aesthetics—encompassing the fields of music, visual arts, poetry, dance, and even the olfactory sense through incense production. Through the case study of this monastic history, Townsend […]

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

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

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 […]

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

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

March 03, 2022 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google

Rebecca L. Davis, Miller Family Endowed Early Career Professor of History at the University of Delaware

In 1964, heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay announced to the world that he was a member of the Nation of Islam. Renamed Muhammad Ali by the Nation’s leader, the boxer faced a slew of criticism about his chosen faith. The idea that he had been brainwashed was among the most pernicious explanations for his conversion […]

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

Debates on Sanskrit Grammar: Vyākaraṇa Workshop

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