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Religious Studies Faculty highlighted in Art / Sci Magazine

Art / Sci Magazine has published their lasted issue, highlighting Religious Studies faculty members in the feature “A Thriving Culture.”

Dr. Michele Berger, director of the Baker-Nord Center for the humanities, is leading efforts to expand the reach of the annual Cleveland Humanities Festival. This year’s festival centered on the multifaceted concept of awe across cultures and time. Read more about “Awe” here.

This spring, Dr. Timothy Beal and Dr. Michael Hemenway, a research fellow, created and co-taught a new course tackling the current AI phenomenon titled, “Responsible AI: Cultivating a Just and Sustainable Socio-technical Future through Data Citizenship”.

The Cleveland Humanities Collaborative (CHC), co-directed by Dr. Brian Clites and Dr. Kurt Koenigsberger, associate professor of English, provides local community college students who are seeking a degree in the humanities with opportunities to join the CWRU community. Read more about CHC here.

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Dr. Jue Liang, Religious Studies newest faculty member, was recently awarded a “flash grant” to create a course for the Fall 2024 semester, “Ghosts, Zombies, and Monsters: What We Fear and Loathe in Religions.”

(Featured Photo by Matt Shiffler)

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“Making Sense of Trauma: Israel’s Black Sabath and its Aftermath” Dr. Alanna Cooper lecture and reception

Wednesday, May 1st 2024

12pm – 1:30pm

UPDATE: Dively Room 213

This lecture by Dr. Alanna Cooper analyzes the cultural work born out of the trauma experienced by Israel’s citizens on October 7. Research explores the existential patterns Israelis seek to make sense of their wounds, as well as the ways in which they assemble a set of hopes and fears for how they might be healed.

Free to attend and open to all members of the Case Western Reserve University community.
Refreshments are to follow.

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Keynote: Dr. Jonathan Tan

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Prayer in Hostage Square – a feature by Dr. Alanna Cooper

During a recent visit to Israel, Dr. Cooper had the privilege to meet Rabbi Anat Sharbat, whose spiritual work in Hostage Square inspired her to write the article, “Hostages Square in Tel Aviv is one of the most religiously diverse synagogues.” Amid war, grief, fear and pain, Rabbi Sharbat and others have found creative and uplifting ways to connect to each other and find some solace.

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“Rejecting the Pill: A History of the Science of Natural Family Planning” presented by Katherin Dugan, PhD

In this lecture, Katherine Dugan will examine the history of the science of Natural Family Planning–starting with the “rhythm” method of the 1920s through the app-based methods of the 2020s. This lecture interweaves medical history with Catholic history in order to tell the story of how what is now known as NFP came to be practiced. In addition to tracing the history of these methods, the lecture also details some of the biographical history of the medical doctors and scientists committed to this work.

Thursday, April 18th, 2024 4:30-5:30 pm (In person or live stream)

The event is free, registration is required for those who want to attend in person

Click here to register

The event will be held at:

Allen Memorial Public Library, 110 Euclid Ave. Zverina Room, 3rd floor

Live stream details will be available here

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Keynote: Dr. Joy R. Bostic

Associate professor Joy R. Bostic is giving the opening keynote address at St. John’s College,

University of Oxford for the Mystical Theology Network’s Mysticism and Action conference,

March 19-21. Her keynote address “‘It Feels So Good to Be Alive’: Vital Unity, Africana

Cosmology and Embodied Sociality as Spiritual Practice” includes excerpts from her upcoming book

on Africana religion and popular culture

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