Dan Hirshberg, Assistant Professor of Religion, won an Institutional Project Support grant from the Japan Foundation, for which he will serve as project director throughout 2017. The grant will fund courses on Japanese religions and politics; a visiting lecture series on Japanese history, culture, politics, and arts; and Japan-related books and media for the Simpson Library.
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently spoke on “The 2016 U.S. and Virginia Elections and the Political Agenda for 2017” at the Virginia Business Journal Forum in Richmond.
Mehdi Aminrazavi presented a lecture titled “The Status of Islamic Philosophy in Academia in the U.S.” to a group of faculty and graduate students at Iran-Mashhad University’s Faculty of Literature and Humanities on Oct. 9, 2016.
Jennifer Barry, Assistant Professor of Religion, recently presented two invited papers at the annual conference of the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion in San Antonio, Texas. In the pre-arranged session Construction of Christian Identities, the first paper touched on new theoretical methods for assessing early Christian identity and was built on work from her current […]
Dan Hirshberg, Assistant Professor of Religion, presented new research in a paper titled, “A Yogin’s Retirement: Visionary Tourism in Nyang ral’s Twilight Years,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. For the panel, “Imagination and Visualization in Tibetan Buddhism,” which was cosponsored by the Tibetan/Himalayan and Tantric Studies groups, he explored subjective depictions […]
