When the Evidence Changed: A Humanities Professor’s Encounters with Aerospace Insiders – and How They Transformed Her Scholarship and Belief

Diana Walsh Pasulka

Monday, September 29th

12:45 pm

TVUC Ballroom C

What happens when a scholar of religion is confronted with evidence that challenges the boundaries between science, belief, and the unexplained? In this provocative talk, Dr. Diana Pasulka, professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, recounts her unexpected journey into the world of aerospace insiders and emergent technologies that blur the line between the natural and the supernatural. Drawing on more than a decade of research and access to technologists, scientists, and intelligence-adjacent thinkers, Pasulka describes how her ethnographic exploration of space research communities profoundly reshaped both her personal belief and scholarly method. A story of intellectual risk, cross disciplinary inquiry, and transformation, this talk invites the audience to consider how the humanities can – and must – respond to radically new forms of evidence.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies

Boxed lunches will be provided at 12:30 pm. Registration requested