News & Events

The Lash is Mightier Than the Sword: Torture in Islamic Legal Thought

Thursday, October 4 in Wyatt 101 at 4:30pm

Join the Religion Department for a lecture by Professor Rumee Ahmed, followed by a discussion. Rumee Ahmed is Assistant Professor of Islamic Law, University of British Columbia.

4/6/2012

Stuart Smithers has been selected to deliver the faculty address at the Academic Convocation on Saturday, May 12 at 2 PM in Schneebeck Auditorium. Professor Smithers’ talk is titled “Exceptionalism and the Everyman:  Or, Why We Should All Fish in the Morning.” 

4/2/2012

Congratulations to Matthew Ingalls, who was recently awarded the 2011 Bruce D. Craig Prize for Mamluk Studies for his dissertation.

2/22/2012

Congratulations to Jonathan Stockdale and Elisabeth Benard, both of whom received Trimble Awards for summer scholarship in Japan and China/Nepal, respectively.

1/31/2012

Congratulations to Suzanne Holland, professor of religion, who has been named the second John B. Magee Chair in Science and Values in the Honors Program (2012–2017), succeeding Mott Greene, who will retire in May 2012. Holland is a bioethicist with particular focus on the intersection of ethics, medicine, religion, and new genetic technologies. She has collaborated nationally and internationally on issues raised by stem cell research, assisted reproduction, genomics, biobanking, health care access, and just research practices.