Events
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Symposium – Women and Goddesses in Jainism
Hershey Hall Salon 801 Hilgard Av, Los Angeles, United StatesPhoto credit: Samyak Modi Throughout the history of Jainism, one of the world’s oldest living religions, Jain women have played a crucial role. Jain renouncers, whose self-denying lifestyle is...
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Islamic China: An Asian History – Book Talk
UCLA Public Affairs Bldg., Rm 2270 337 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesFor more than a millennium, Islam has been a Chinese religion, and native-born Chinese Muslims have played important roles in their homeland—as butchers, merchants, and farmers; diplomats, scholar-officials, and royal...
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CANCELLED: And God Laughed: Humor in the Bible
Royce Hall 306Due to unforeseen circumstances, And God Laughed: Humor in the Bible with Joel Kaminsky has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will re-list if the...
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A Tattered Leaf Covers the Torn: Class Dynamics of Buddhist Charity in Vietnam
Royce 243Professor Sara Ann Swenson (Dartmouth College) presents new research on how global trends in humanitarianism are enacted at the local level through the everyday ethics and informal practices of low-income...
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Satellite Ministries: The Rise of Christian Television in the Middle East
Bunche Hall 10383In this book talk, Febe Armanios (Middlebury College) will present on her recently-published monograph Satellite Ministries, which explores how modern expressions of faith, technology, and political power intersected and clashed...
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Between Discordant Shores: Dante’s Francis, the Book of Islam and the Orient
Kaufman Hall Room 101(Image: Coppo di Marcovaldo, St. Francis before the Sultan,” Sultan Malek al-Kāmil and his philosophers, Bardi Altarpiece, c. 1260s, Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence.) Marking the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’s...
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A Multifaith Conversation on Justice, Forgiveness and Compassion
UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) 570 Westwood PlazaIn our deeply fractured world, religion serves both to connect and offer wisdom and to foster conflict and division. Over the course of centuries, it has been frequently invoked to...
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Who are the Tanguts and why do they matter? Writing, Religion, and Cultural Exchange in the Xia Kingdom
Royce 243The Tangut Xia kingdom flourished in the Ordos region and the Gansu Corridor between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. This talk will provide an introduction to the Tangut Xia kingdom,...
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EVENT POSTPONED: The Complex Interplay of Religion, Law and Politics in Israel
Bunche Hall 10383We regret to inform you that this March 9th on-campus event featuring Orly Erez-Likhovski as been postponed, as the speaker is unable to fly to us from Israel due to...
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The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution
Bunche Hall 10383Muslim charities and community organizations have assumed a significant role in refugee support since the Syrian catastrophe: in Jordan and Canada, as elsewhere, they deliver food aid, house orphans, and...