Religious Studies (NYU)

Join the Center for Religion & Media for an event on Monday, April 7:

Black Panther Woman: Political Activism and Spiritual Care

Mary Frances Phillips (University of Illinois) will discuss her new book Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins, a q***r Black woman who brought spiritual self-care practices to the Black Panther Party that she developed while incarcerated. She will also discuss how Huggins’s ideas can serve as a toolkit for activists today. Siobhan Carter-David (Southern Connecticut State University) will moderate the conversation. An audience Q & A will follow.

Date: Monday, April 7
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: 14A Washington Mews, 1st Floor

*Registration required. Please register here.*
https://rb.gy/6ihtru

The Departments of Religious Studies, Comparative Literature, and The Remarque Institute are proud to announce a book celebration with Jean-Luc Marion, devoted to the recent translation of his Revelation Comes From Elsewhere (Stanford UP, 2024; D'aillieurs, la révélation, 2020). During the first half of the roundtable, Professor Marion will be in conversation with Crina Gschwandtner (Philosophy, Fordham) and Hent de Vries (Religious Studies, NYU).

Date: Monday, March 17th
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Location: Jurow Lecture Hall, 31 Washington Pl, New York
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/YtMWhwk43tFGzZaX8

Professor Marion is a member of the Académie Française and has long taught at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) as well as the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. The author of numerous influential historical and systematic studies on Descartes, phenomenology, Patristic and mystical theology, and the visual arts, his recent magnum opus not only revisits the Biblical sources and classical archives of the Greek and Latin Fathers of the Church; he also demonstrates that the first millennium of Christian thought was, in fact, largely unfamiliar with the epistemologically restricted concept of "Revelation" (as distinct from "Reason"). Only the Christian theologians' apparent heirs in medieval Scholasticism, early modern, and modern metaphysics, represented by Aquinas and Suárez, Kant and Hegel, made much of it. Departing from their notion's presumed intrinsic and formal limitations, Marion argues, a rigorously deconstructed concept of revelation must return to a more original and Biblical apocalyptic as well as Augustinian sense of "uncovering" and "givenness." Indeed, the latter's unique modes of manifestation, Marion concludes, should be understood in a radically new, dialectically theological no less than radically phenomenological, interpretive key.

We invite you to the Daniel Heller-Roazen Talk: On Soundless Omens this March

Location: The Great Room, 19 University Place, New York, NY 10003
Time: Thursday, Mar 6 2025, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

RSVP: Please use the link below to sign up for the talk
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The Religious Studies Department invites you to join us for a Center for Religion & Media event on "Money, Lies, and God:
Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy"

Location: 14A Washington Mews, 1st Floor
Time: Tuesday, February 18 at 6:00pm

RSVP: Please use the QR code in the attached picture or the link below to sign up for the event.
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The Religious Studies Department invites you to: "IT WAS S*X, DRUGS, AND THE HOLY GHOST": GRACE JONES AND BLACK PENTECOSTAL SUPERABUNDANCE in the 2024 Lerner Lecture Series

Time: Nov 14th Thursday, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: Jurow Lecture Hall, 31 Washington Pl, New York, NY
Reception to follow

Description:
Featuring the speaker, Judith Casselberry, this lecture speaks about the production of Jamaican American Apostolic Pentecostal "excess" or "superabundance," which is hidden in plain sight, in the musical work and persona of pop culture icon Grace Jones.

The Religious Studies department invites you to "YORÙBÁ-ÒRISÀ SPIRITUAL LEGACIES AND THE QUEST FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN TRINIDAD" in the 2024 Lerner Lecture Series

Event time & : MONDAY, October 28th 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Location: Jurow Lecture Hall 31 Washington Pl, New York, NY

Reception to follow

Featured Speaker: Dianne Stewart
Description of the presentation: This lecture examines their quest for religious autonomy in the 19th and 20th centuries through an Africana Religious Studies framework that (1) offers a culturally attentive historical contextualization of Trinidad's Yorubá-Orisà tradition and (2) contributes to Longian theories of Black religion by analyzing how devotees remember, conceptualize, and
deploy Africa as a spiritually and politically mobilizing symbol.

The Department of Religious Studies and Comparative Literature, in collaboration with La Maison Française, present:

Is Christianity Responsible for the Destruction of Nature?

Time: Monday, October 7th 4:00-6:00PM
Location: La Maison Française at NYU | 16 Washington Mews, New York, NY

The event is open to all NYU students, faculties, and staff. NYU ID is required at the entrance of the event.

NYU Religious Studies Department invites you to the event, Enslaved Women, "Witchcraft," and the Afterlives of Salem.

Speaker: Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
Time: Tuesday, September 27, 4pm to 6pm
Location: Jurow Lecture Hall, 31 Washington Pl, New York

There is a reception followed after the event.

Religious Studies invites you to an in-person event as part of our yearlong series on monsters.

Date: Thursday, March 28
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: 8 Washington Mews

Space is limited. **Please RSVP by emailing: [email protected]

Come watch Emmy-award winning artist Josh Turi work in real time to build a monster character for us. As he works, Angela Zito, co-director of the Center for Religion & Media, will discuss creating monsters with him and the audience. What happens when the mask melds to the face? Why do we love becoming monstrous? How is that done in horror films?

Bring your questions and be ready to face a terrifying makeover!

Religious Studies invites you to an in-person book talk sponsored by NYU's Center for Religion and Media on Monday, 4/1 at 6:00pm.

Join us for a discussion with J. Barton Scott about his new book, Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India. He will be in conversation with NYU’s Arvind Rajagopal.

An audience Q & A will follow.

Date: Monday, April 1
Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: 14A Washington Mews

**Please RSVP by emailing: [email protected]

Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? Through the origin and afterlives of a 1927 British imperial law, J. Barton Scott weaves a globe-trotting narrative about secularism, empire, insult, and outrage that explores issues of religion and free speech, colonialism, and the law.

The Religious Studies invites you to the virtual talk: Among Gods and Germs: Nyen Fever in Tibet

University of California, Riverside
Friday, March 1
10am-11:30pm PST (1–2:30pm EST)

Please use the link below to join in the talk
https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95636557837?pwd=Zk9OVWdtK1FVZm0rMmNDVXpqdy9sdz09

On January 26th, 2020, the Tibetan Medicine Administration for the Tibet Autonomous Region officially reported that the spreading COVID outbreak was a type of “nyen fever” (gnyan rims). This talk will trace a history of nyen spirits and nyen fevers, exploring the various kinds of agency afforded to them in Tibetan medical, Buddhist, and Bönpo sources. For healthy people, the nyen are awesome beings, but for the sick they are terrible bugs. In each case, the nyen embody the presence of disease and death in a human landscape, while still affording methods for protection and the restoration of health. Modalities of disease and health such as nyen provide global resources for the critical projects of the medical humanities and disability studies today.

Keep Your Zombies Close: How I Stopped Shuddering & Learned to Love Ideological Critique
Wednesday, February 28
5:30-7:00pm EST
Virtual event. Register link:
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DuntAbxoR-KIFXbeeoWNig #/registration

Have you noticed that our monsters are creeping closer to us? That vampires attend high school (constantly), that werewolves seduce us with their moral anguish (as much as their glamorous hunky good looks)? But what about zombies? Does narrowing the gap, as TV series iZombie does, humanize zombies or recognize our own monstrosity? Should we be forgiving or horrified?

Sarah Lauro (University of Tampa), author of The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death, will be in conversation with Angela Zito, co-Director of NYU's Center for Religion & Media, to investigate the politics and passions of zombie creep today.