Fall 2009

September 3, 7:30, Flint 50
John Van Engen (University of Notre Dame)
"Free Spirits, Lay Religion, and Clerical Suspicion: Inside the Late Medieval Church"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

September 14, 7:30, Flint 50
Phyllis Mack (Rutgers University)
"Religion and Gender in Enlightenment England: The Problem of Agency"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research and the Center for European Studies

October 20, 6:00, University Auditorium
Mark Noll (University of Notre Dame)
"The Bible and American Public Life"
Co-sponsored by the Richard J. Milbauer Chair in History, the Bob Graham
Center for Public Service, and the Department of Religion

November 9, 7:30, Ustler Hall Atrium
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
"Jewish Books and Christian Readers in Early Modern Europe"
Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies

December 2, 7:30, Pugh Ocora
Kenneth Mills (University of Toronto)
"'Tantos Milagros': Miraculous Transmission in the Early Modern Spanish World"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies

 

Spring 2009

January 12 at 7:30
Peter Brown (Princeton University)
“Between Syria and Egypt: Alms, Work and the Origins of Christian Monasticism”
Pugh 170 (Auditorium)
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Rothman Distinguished Lectures in Classics

February 16 at 7:30
Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College)
"Scholars and Converts: European Jews Embrace Islam"
Pugh 170 (Auditorium)
Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies

March 16 at 7:30 -- CANCELLED (rescheduled lecture TBA)
John Van Engen (University of Notre Dame)
“Free Spirits, Lay Religion, & Clerical Suspicion: Inside the Late Medieval Church”
Pugh 170 (Auditorium)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

March 30 at 7:30
Lamin Sanneh (Yale University)
“The Return of Religion in Africa”
Pugh 170 (Auditorium)
Co-sponsored by the Center for African Studies

 

Fall 2008

September 16 at 4:30
Susanna Elm (University of California, Berkeley)
"Pagan Challenge and Christian Response: Towards a New Rome"
Uslter Hall Auditorium
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Rothman Distinguished Lectures in Classics

October 6 at 7:30
Carlos Eire (Yale University)
“When Miracles Ceased: The Protestant Reformation and the Disenchantment of the World”
Pugh 170 (Auditorium)

November 12 at 7:30
David Nirenberg (University of Chicago)
“Sibling Rivalries: Judaism, Christianity, Islam”
Pugh 170 (Auditorium)
Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Graham Center for Public Service

December 1 at 4:00
David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania)
“The People and the Book: The Invention of Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture”
Ustler Hall Atrium (on the second floor)
Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies

Sponsors

Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere

Center for Jewish Studies

Christian Study Center of Gainesville

History Department

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Office of Research at the University of Florida

A Project Grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation