The University of Florida (UF) Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere launched its Intersections Research-Into-Teaching Grants earlier this year, made possible with $400,000 in funding from The Andrew […]
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Professor Jonathan Edelmann will give a public lecture at the University of Florida’s Undergraduate Philosophy Society in the Department of Philosophy on October 30, 2018, Tuesday, 6:30-8:00 pm. The lecture […]
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Professor Mario Poceski is organizing a visiting lecture by Professor Francisca Cho, Georgetown University. Title: “A Buddhist Theory of Film” Date: October 4, 2018 (Thursday) Time: 2:00-3:30 pm Place: 215 […]
The Center for the study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra) is pleased to announce a lecture by Professor Tony Stewart, Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Asian Studies and Islamic […]
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Jodi Shaw (Ph.D. Candidate, Asia) is currently an American Institute of Indian Studies Language Fellow (2017-2018) studying Tamil in South India. This is in preparation for her upcoming research in […]
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THE CENTER FOR GLOBAL ISLAMIC STUDIES, IN COOPERATION WITH THE CENTER FOR AFRICAN STUDIES PRESENTS: DR. HATSUKI AISHIMA “PUBLIC CULTURE AND ISLAM IN MODERN EGYPT: MEDIA, INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIETY” Tuesday, […]
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For this week’s Religion in the News stories, we didn’t have to look far. All we had to do was focus on our top-notch faculty as they address critical issues […]
The 2016 primaries have been full of religious rhetoric, be it pandering to a specific religious group or promoting fear of another. With this being the case, it can be […]