Recent and Upcoming Events

The Department of Religion presents the Annual Dickinson Distinguished Lecture

• Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Arizona State University
• This Foreign Religion of Ours: (Mis)Translation East and West, Medieval and Modern
• Wednesday May 20, 2009
• 4pm
• 41 Haldeman
• Free & Open to the Public

Anita Bryant’s 1977 campaign to overturn a local non-discrimination ordinance became a national contest between gay activists and the religious right.  This would now seem like ancient history, except that Bryant’s rhetoric still works as it did in California to pass Prop 8.  What accounts for the persistent power of this argument?  Is it possible to respond to the rhetoric?

The Department of Religion presents the Annual James & David Orr Memorial Lecture on Culture and Religion at Dartmouth

Mark Jordan
Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity
Harvard Divinity School

• Christian Moms Beat Homosexual Recruiters Over and Over Again
• April 17, 2009
• 4:15pm
• Rockefeller 3 (Overflow: Rocky 1)
• Free & Open to the Public
  

The Dartmouth College Department of Religion presents the Hardigg Family Fund Lecture

Daniel C. Dennett
Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies
Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy
Tufts University

• Religion as a Natural Phenomenon and the New Atheism
• January 20, 2009
• 4:30pm
• Location: 105 Dartmouth Hall

New England Medieval Conference

• October 3-4 2008
• Crusade, Jihad, and Identity in the Medieval World
• Dartmouth College

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program presents

Sandra Harding
Professor of Education and Women's Studies University of California
Los Angeles

• Can Women Ever Become Modern? New Directions in Thinking about Gender, Science, and Modernity
• Monday, April 14, 2008
• 4PM
• Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
• Sponsored by the Religion Department and Phi Beta Kappa