In Person (Royce 306) or on Zoom Register here How do archaeologists unearth the daily life of people from Jesus’s time? Contrary to popular belief, archaeology of first-century Roman Galilee is not about illustrating or proving the gospels, drawing timelines, or hunting treasure. Rather, it is about understanding the lives of people, just like us,...

In person (Kaplan 365) or on Zoom Register here This guest lecture examines the little known multicultural religious protests to the Spanish Conquest of colonial Latin America.  Such protests began in 1511 under the guidance of Dominican friar Antonio de Montesinos and led to “The Great Debate” in which, for the first time in recorded...

In person (Royce 314) or on Zoom Understanding human dimensions of planetary challenges requires understanding religious dimensions of being human. This talk illustrates how knowledge about extinctions and biodiversity loss can be advanced through research with three different conceptions of religion. Working from sites of grounded, multispecies research on the Virginia coast, the examples suggest...

In person (Kaplan 365) or on Zoom Register here The Sacred Amid Exploitation: How Mexican Farmworkers Forged a Religious Movement in the World of California's Industrial Age (1916-1966) In the early twentieth century, Pentecostalism was often seen as a distasteful new sect rife with fanatical tendencies; U.S. growers thought of Mexicans as no more than...