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SUMMARY:Different Roads\, One Goal: Gandhi and Jainism
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi\, one of the last century’s most revered figures\, has exerted enormous influence across the world. Gandhi was himself greatly influenced by Jainism\, an ancient religion whose practitioners\, many of whom live in Gandhi’s native state of Gujarat in north-western India\, are committed to minimizing harm to living beings. \nIn this symposium\, speakers will discuss connections between Gandhi and Jainism and parallels between Gandhian and Jain thought. \nSCHEDULE:\n2:00 – 2:45: Tara Sethia: “Gandhi\, Ahiṃsā and Jainism”\n2:45 – 3:30: Chris Chapple: “Jain and Gandhian Vows: Nonviolence\, Truth\, and Simplicity”\n3:30 – 3:45: Break\n3:45 – 4:30: Veena Howard: “Gandhi and his Practical Anekāntavāda for Sarvodaya”\n4:30 – 4:50: Response from Vinay Lal\n4:50 – 5:30: Concluding Discussion \nRSVP required for Zoom access. Click here \nSpeakers: \nChristopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.  He has published more than twenty books including Karma and Creativity (1986)\, Nonviolence to Animals\, Earth\, and Self in Asian Traditions (1993)\, Reconciling Yogas (2003)\, Yoga and the Luminous (2008)\, Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Elements in Hindu\, Buddhist\, and Jain Yogas (2020)\, and several edited volumes on religion and ecology.  He has received numerous grants for his research\, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Nehru Fellowship program. He serves on the advisory boards for the Forum on Religion and Ecology (Yale)\, the Ahimsa Center (Pomona)\, the Jaina Studies Centre (London)\, the Dharma Academy of North America (Berkeley)\, the Uberoi Foundation (Denver)\, the South Asia Studies Association (Los Angeles)\, the Center for Religions and Spirituality (LMU)\, and the International School for Jain Studies (Delhi). \n  \n  \nVeena R. Howard\, Ph.D.\, is Professor of Asian Religious Traditions in the Department of Philosophy at California State University\, Fresno She also holds the Endowed Chair in Jain and Hindu Dharma. She was recently appointed as the director of the M.K. Gandhi Center: Inner Peace and Sarvodaya. Her publications include the books\, Gandhi’s Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Moral Challenges (Lexington\, 2023); The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender (ed.)\, (Bloomsbury\, 2019); Dharma\, Hindu\, Jain\, Buddhist\, and Sikh Traditions of India (ed.) (IB Tauris\, 2017); and Gandhi’s Ascetic Activism: Renunciation and Social Action (SUNY Press\, 2013). She has also authored numerous peer-reviewed articles including\, “The Nonviolence Conundrum: Political Peace and Personal Karma in Jain and Hindu Traditions” (Religions\, 2023); “Oxford Bibliography Article: Mohandas K. Gandhi” (Oxford University Press\, 2019); “Divine Light and Melodies Lead the Way: The Santmat Tradition of Bihar”(Religions\, 2019); “The modern monastic Santmat movement of Bihar: building bridges between Sanātana Dharma and Sant-Mat (International Journal of Dharma Studies\, 2017);  “Lessons from ‘The Hawk and the Dove’: Reflections on the Mahabharata’s Animal Parables and Ethical Predicaments” (Sophia International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions\, 2016)\,  “Rethinking Gandhi’s Celibacy:  Ascetic Power and the Empowerment of Women” (The Journal of the American Academy of Religion\, 2013)\, She has also translated three books from the modern Sant tradition from Hindi into English. She has served on the Board of Trustees of the Parliament of the World’s Religions. \n  \nTara Sethia is the founder of Ahimsa Center for the Study of Nonviolence in Thought and Action at California State Polytechnic University\, Pomona where she held the inaugural the Shri Shantinath Endowed Chair in Ahimsa Studies. As Center-Director for nearly two decades she created an interdisciplinary Minor in Nonviolence Studies; directed summer institutes for K-12 educators; and hosted conferences\, lectures\, dialogues\, and workshops on nonviolence. Her publications include the following books: Gandhi: Pioneer of Nonviolent Social Change\, Living Gandhi\, and Ahimsa\, Anekanta and Jainism.  She teaches courses on India\, South Asia\, and Nonviolence and Social Change. Dr. Sethia is a recipient of many honors\, awards\, and grants\, and has been featured in the media\, including the Los Angeles Times. She received her Ph.D. in History from UCLA. Currently\, she is emerita professor of History. \n\nDiscussant: \nVinay Lal is a writer\, blogger\, cultural critic\, and Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA). He earned his BA and MA\, both in 1982\, from The Johns Hopkins University with concentration in literature\, history\, and philosophy\, and a PhD with Distinction from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in 1992.  He writes widely on Indian history\, historiography\, the Indian diaspora\, colonialism\, the architecture of nonviolence\, Gandhi\, American politics\, contemporary culture\, and the global politics of knowledge systems.  His 20 books include the two-volume Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City (2013); The Future of Knowledge and Culture:  A Dictionary for the Twenty-first Century\, co-edited with Ashis Nandy (Viking Penguin\, 2005); Of Cricket\, Guinness and Gandhi:  Essays on Indian History and Culture (Penguin\, 2005); The History of History:  Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (Oxford\, 2003); Empire of Knowledge:  Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (Pluto Press\, 2002); India and Civilizational Futures:  Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics II (Oxford\, 2019); The Fury of Covid-19:  The Passions\, Histories\, and Unrequited Love of the Coronavirus (Pan Macmillan\, 2020); and\, most recently\, Insurgency and the Artist:  The Art of the Freedom Struggle in India (Roli Books\, 2022).  Two volumes of his collected papers on Gandhi are scheduled for publication in early 2024.  He blogs at abplive.in and maintains an extensive academic YouTube channel with over 300 lectures at youtube.com/user/dillichalo with nearly 33\,000 subscribers and 2.5 million views.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/different-roads-one-goal-gandhi-and-jainism/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
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SUMMARY:Ethics in Paul and Paul in Ethics
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis talk looks at a few examples of Paul’s ethical reasoning and then discusses how his ethical discourse compares with those of several types current today. \nRSVP required for Zoom access. Click here \n  \nAdela Yarbro Collins is the current president of the Society for Biblical Literature and an American author and academic who has served as the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. Her research focuses on the New Testament\, especially the Gospel of Mark and the Book of Revelation\, and she has also written on early Christian apocalypticism and eschatology. Collins has also served as the President of the Society of New Testament Studies (2010–2011) and as the President of the New England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature (2004–2005). \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/ethics-in-paul-and-paul-in-ethics/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Mark of Contradictions: The Creation of Judah's History and the Case of Samson
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn biblical texts\, we find preserved the “mark of contradictions\, fragmentations\, and adjunctions\,” as intellectual historian Michel de Certeau once wrote (The Writing of History 1988: 313). This talk will explore the mark of contradictions in what may seem a peripheral set of texts within the broader biblical narrative\, the Samson stories of Judges 13-16. Buried in the book of Judges\, these quirky stories have consistently baffled scholars: where do they come from\, why were they preserved\, and what role do they serve? In the talk\, Mahri Leonard-Fleckman will trace shifting portrayals of Samson through different biblical witnesses and rewritings through the first century C.E. to demonstrate how Samson preserves an important mark of contradictions as he is drawn into the fabric of Judah’s history. In doing so\, her broader aim is to probe the relationship between fluidity and fixity in scribal production\, history writing\, and tradition itself. Moderated by William Schniedewind (UCLA). \nRSVP here \n  \nMahri Leonard-Fleckman is an assistant professor of Hebrew Bible in the Religious Studies Department at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester\, MA. She specializes in Iron Age history and the composition history of the Hebrew Bible\, and is the author of The House of David: Between Political Formation and Literary Revision (Fortress Press\, 2016) and co-author of The Book of Ruth in the Wisdom Commentary Series (Liturgical Press\, 2017). Her current book project\, provisionally titled Scribal Representations and Social Landscapes of the Iron Age Shephelah\, focuses on scribal representations of the “Other” in ancient Israel in relation to broader questions of identity in the Iron Age Levant\, and is under contract with Oxford University Press. Leonard-Fleckman has published numerous scholarly and public-facing books and articles\, is currently the Catholic Biblical Quarterly Book Review Editor for the Old Testament and Qumran\, and is active on numerous other editorial boards and professional committees. \n  \n  \nCo-sponsored with the lead sponsor UCLA Alan D Leve Center for Jewish Studies as part of their Bible and the Ancient Near East series\, in addition to and the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/mark-of-contradictions-the-creation-of-judahs-history-and-the-case-of-samson/
LOCATION:290 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230508T160000
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SUMMARY:The Mothers\, the Mamzers\, and the Rabbis: Reconstructing Family and Community in Post-Holocaust Jewish Law
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis talk centers on the little-known story of the children of illicit unions that resulted from a highly unusual situation in post-Holocaust Munkacz\, a SubCarpathian town that had been a major Jewish center before World War II. A number of women who returned to Munkacz in 1945 believed their husbands had perished in the camps\, remarried\, had children\, and then saw their first husbands return. In 1965\, two major Eastern European Orthodox rabbis tried to find solutions to keep the children of these children from also being considered Mamzerim\, children of misbegotten unions who are considered outcasts in the Jewish community. In texts that at first glance appear highly formalistic and technical\, these Jewish legal decisors tackled many of the central dilemmas of postwar European Jewry\, and are thus illuminated by contemporary writings of policymakers\, international relief agencies\, novelists\, and historians. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. \n  \nEthan B. Katz is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California-Berkeley\, where he has taught since the fall of 2018. He is an affiliate faculty of the Center for Middle East Studies\, the Institute of European Studies\, and the Center for the Study of Religion. Dr. Katz also serves as the Chair of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Jewish Life and Campus Climate. Since the spring of 2019\, he has been the co-founder and co-director of the Antisemitism Education Initiative at Berkeley\, an effort that has received national attention and funding. \nRSVP required for Zoom access. Click here
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/the-mothers-the-mamzers-and-the-rabbis-reconstructing-family-and-community-in-post-holocaust-jewish-law/
LOCATION:Haines 39/Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T160000
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SUMMARY:Lost Books: The Forgetfulness of Writing and the Forgetting of Jewish Pasts
DESCRIPTION:  \nIt is often noted how the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls transformed our understanding of ancient Judaism\, radically expanding our evidence for Jews and Judaism prior to the rise of Christianity. Yet this material also stands as a striking reminder of how much of the literary heritage of Jewish antiquity has been lost to us. How and why was this material lost to the Jewish tradition\, and what might its forgetting tell us about Jewish memory-making\, past and present? This lecture explores these questions with a focus on lost books\, real and imagined\, and the shifting meanings of writing within Jewish cultural history. \nRSVP here \n  \nAnnette Yoshiko Reed is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. She studies ancient Jews and Christians\, with a focus on questions of knowledge\, identity\, and difference. Her recent books include Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism and Christianity​ (2018 and Demons\, Angels\, and Writing in Ancient Judaism (2020). She is currently working on a book on the cultural power of forgetting\, focusing on the Jewish reception of the Second Temple past. \nThursday\, May 4\, 2023 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM \nAnnette Yoshiko Reed (Harvard University)\nModerator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA)\nLost Books: The Forgetfulness of Writing and the Forgetting of Jewish Pasts\nEtta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored with lead sponsor UCLA Alan D Leve Center for Jewish Studies’ Etta and Milton Leve Scholar in Residence.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/lost-books-the-forgetfulness-of-writing-and-the-forgetting-of-jewish-pasts/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T140000
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SUMMARY:Ancient Judaism between Christian Memory and Jewish Forgetting
DESCRIPTION:  \nDrawing on her in-progress book project on Forgetting\, this seminar will explore the place of memory and forgetting in the reception of Second Temple Judaism\, revisiting the supposed Rabbinic retreat from “history” after the Roman destruction of the Temple in 70 CE and exploring Christian and Jewish contestation over pre-70 Jewish pasts\, from antiquity to the present. \nRSVP here \n  \nAnnette Yoshiko Reed is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. She studies ancient Jews and Christians\, with a focus on questions of knowledge\, identity\, and difference. Her recent books include Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism and Christianity​ (2018 and Demons\, Angels\, and Writing in Ancient Judaism (2020). She is currently working on a book on the cultural power of forgetting\, focusing on the Jewish reception of the Second Temple past. \nTuesday\, May 2\, 2023 • 314 Royce • 2 PM \nAnnette Yoshiko Reed (Harvard University)\nModerator: Catherine Bonesho (UCLA)\nAncient Judaism between Christian Memory and Jewish Forgetting\nEtta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored with lead sponsor UCLA Alan D Leve Center for Jewish Studies’ Etta and Milton Leve Scholar in Residence.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/ancient-judaism-between-christian-memory-and-jewish-forgetting/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple
DESCRIPTION:With the exception of the cross\, the apple—as the forbidden fruit—may be the most widely-recognized biblical image. Yet the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew original does not name the species of fruit that caused the Fall of Man\, nor do any of its many translations. While early Christian and rabbinic commentators identify various species as the forbidden fruit—the fig\, the grape\, the citron—they never include the apple. How\, then\, did the forbidden fruit come to be identified as the apple? Examining the history of biblical translation and of the artistic representation of the Fall of Man\, the presentation offers a new explanation for the emergence of the apple as a symbol of temptation and forbidden knowledge. \nRSVP required for Zoom access. Click here \n  \nAzzan Yadin-Israel is professor of Jewish studies and classics at Rutgers University. He is the author of several books\, including Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash and The Grace of God and the Grace of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/how-the-forbidden-fruit-became-an-apple/
LOCATION:Haines 39/Zoom
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T120000
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SUMMARY:History and Ideology: Is There A Second Temple Judaism?
DESCRIPTION:Periodization is a critical tool for historians\, but it is also practice fraught with difficulty. As scholars have come to recognize\, the division of historical narratives into broad analytic rubrics is anchored in the ideological commitments—often implicit and unrecognized—of their authors. A great deal of work has been devoted to examining these questions as they pertain to the assumptions informing modern history\, particularly in the fields such as colonial history and women’s history. And while the issue has received less attention among scholars of the ancient world\, it is no less pressing. This talk will address the broader theoretical question of periodization itself\, and provide a detailed discussion of one example—the assumption that there is a Second Temple period.  \n  \nAzzan Yadin-Israel is professor of Jewish studies and classics at Rutgers University. He is the author of several books\, including Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash and The Grace of God and the Grace of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen. \nJoining us in-person? Registration is required in order to have lunch. Click here \nRegister here for Zoom link \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/history-and-ideology-is-there-a-second-temple-judaism/
LOCATION:Haines 39/Zoom
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230314T140000
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SUMMARY:Mark of Contradictions: The Creation of Judah's History and the Case of Samson (Bible and the Ancient World series)
DESCRIPTION:[gravityform id=”140″ title=”false” description=”true”]\nPresented by: Professor Mahri Leonard-Fleckman of College of the Holy Cross \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/mark-of-contradictions-the-creation-of-judahs-history-and-the-case-of-samson-bible-and-the-ancient-world-series/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T160000
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SUMMARY:Where Was Adam Buried? Textual Communities and the Changing Location of a Sacred Site
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/95410494359 \n\n  \nBecause neither the Hebrew Bible\, New Testament\, nor Qur’ān specify the place of Adam’s burial\, its location became an object of contention over the ages among Jews\, Christians\, and Muslims. The oldest Jewish traditions locate Adam’s tomb in the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron\, thereby associating Adam with the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs buried there (Abraham and Sarah\, Isaac and Rebecca\, and Jacob and Leah). Early Christians debated whether Adam was buried in Hebron or in Jerusalem\, where his burial was associated with the passion and redemption of Jesus Christ. Later\, Muslims entered into the debate\, sometimes arguing for Hebron or Jerusalem\, and other times for specifically Muslim traditions that locate Adam’s burial in Mecca\, Najaf (in Iraq)\, or Sri Lanka. What was at stake in these contests was the religious symbolism and meaning of the final resting place of the ancestor of all of humanity\, but more often than not the debate was shaped by pragmatic concerns having to do with political power\, ecclesiastical rivalries\, and economic gain\, whose forms often reveal the early history of pilgrimage and religious tourism. \n\n  \n\n\nFred Astren is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. His current work encompasses Jewish history—in both the East and West—in the years 500–950. Forthcoming is a journal article on the failure of Visigothic anti-Jewish legislation in Spain\, and a book chapter on the impact of ninth century Muslim Arabic book culture on Jewish sectarianism. He is currently working on a book chapter on Iranian contexts of the eighth-century Jewish messianic figure\, Abū ʿĪsā al- Isfahānī. Recent publications include a journal article that examines ways that minority and majority groups “co- produce” historical narratives in medieval Islam and a chapter in the Cambridge History of Judaism on medieval non-rabbinic Judaisms other than Karaism. Astren is the author of Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding (University of South Carolina Press\, 2004)\, and co-editor of Judaism and Islam: Boundaries\, Interaction\, and Communication (Brill\, 2000). Astren serves on the Advisory Board of the Mediterranean Seminar. \n\n[gravityform id=”139″ title=”false” description=”true”]Presented by: Professor Fred Astren of San Francisco State University
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/where-was-adam-buried-textual-communities-and-the-changing-location-of-a-sacred-site/
LOCATION:Online on Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T140000
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SUMMARY:“Abba has begun to make money from the beer business”:  Beer\, Business\, and Halakhah in Rabbinic Literature (Bible and the Ancient World series)
DESCRIPTION:[gravityform id=”138″ title=”false” description=”true”]\nPresented by: Professor Jordan D. Rosenblum of the University of Wisconsin-Madison \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/abba-has-begun-to-make-money-from-the-beer-business-beer-business-and-halakhah-in-rabbinic-literature/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T160000
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DTSTAMP:20230203T174309Z
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SUMMARY:A Royal Osirian Funerary Rite? The Awakening of Osiris Ritual in Tutankhamun’s Tomb
DESCRIPTION:  \nOver 100 years after its discovery\, the tomb of Tutankhamun continues to be the focus of numerous Egyptological studies and scholarly research. Due to Howard Carter’s meticulous documentation of the tomb\, it’s possible to continue to “excavate” the tomb and make new discoveries about ancient Egyptian religious beliefs\, kingship ideology\, and funerary practices\, including a new interpretation of the layout of the Burial Chamber as related to the Awakening of Osiris Ritual. \nThe earliest depiction of the Awakening of Osiris Ritual comes from the 19th Dynasty\, which represents the reanimation of Osiris by his son Horus in the presence of various deities connected to the Osirian myth. In the scene\, the mummiform figure of Osiris lays prone and enshrined upon a lion bed\, surrounded by various crowns\, weapons\, clothing\, and other emblems. It is here argued that Tutankhamun’s Burial Chamber is a physical manifestation of this ritual\, which is not only represented in image and text\, but also by objects and even the body of Tutankhamun himself. The author proposes a number of hypotheses for why this ritual physically manifested itself within Tutankhamun’s burial\, and how this analysis provides us with more information on royal funerary practice during the New Kingdom. \n  \nNick Brown is an American Egyptologist who has worked as an archaeologist in Egypt since 2011. He received his MA degree in Egyptology from the American University in Cairo in 2016\, and currently is an Egyptology PhD candidate at the UCLA. Currently he lives between Los Angeles\, CA and Cairo\, Egypt. His excavation experience includes working with archaeological sites in Aswan (at Elephantine Island and Wadi el-Hudi)\, as well as funerary sites in Luxor\, Amarna and the Sudan. In 2016\, Nicholas spent the summer working at the MFA\, Boston as the Terrace Curatorial Research Associate in Egyptology. He returned to the MFA over the summer of 2019 to conduct archival research for the Egyptian Art Department’s exhibit “Ancient Nubia Now.” Nicholas’s research interests include funerary material culture from the New Kingdom\, as well as the use and perception of ancient Egypt within modern contexts. \n[gravityform id=”136″ title=”false” description=”true”] Presented by: Nick Brown (NELC UCLA)
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/a-royal-osirian-funerary-rite-the-awakening-of-osiris-ritual-in-tutankhamuns-tomb/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T160000
DTSTAMP:20230203T173750Z
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SUMMARY:Grupo Madera: 20th Century Afro-Venezuelan Religiosity\, Rhythms\, and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:  \nGrupo Madera (Wood Group) was founded in 1977 in San Agustín del Sur – an Afro-Venezuelan working-class barrio – by Afro-Venezuelan youth committed to Third World liberation struggles\, global Pan-Africanism\, and Black consciousness. As a traditional Afro-Venezuelan musical ensemble and community organization\, Grupo Madera responded to the people’s calls for economic justice and political participation during an era of U.S. backed government repression in Venezuela. On August 15\, 1980\, while en route to an event with Indigenous communities in the Amazonas region\, 11 of the founding members drowned in the Orinoco River. Survivors and social movements consider the tragedy one of the most egregious and vile acts of state violence against Afro-Venezuelan popular masses in contemporary history. In the aftermath of their death\, several remaining members of Grupo Madera (1977 – 1980)\, along with other artists\, activists\, relatives\, and communities\, swore an oath to continue the founders’ legacy and have done so for 42 years. Join us to learn more about Grupo Madera and the role of culture\, religion\, and arts in people’s struggles in 20th century Venezuela. \n  \n\n\n\nJeanette Charles is a proud daughter of the Haitian Diaspora raised by working-class Black and Brown Los Angeles. She is pursuing her PhD in History at the University of California\, Los Angeles (MA ‘19). Her research focuses on Black Radicalism\, popular religiosity\, and political economy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to this\, she studied at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela\, with the Cátedra Libre África\, a research institute focused on Afro-Venezuelan\, African diasporic\, and African continental histories. She is also a long-time international solidarity organizer\, language interpreter\, and independent journalist. \n\n[gravityform id=”141″ title=”false” description=”true”]\nPresented by: Jeanette Charles\, UCLA
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/grupo-madera-20th-century-afro-venezuelan-religiosity-rhythms-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T150000
DTSTAMP:20230203T173832Z
CREATED:20230124T181037Z
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UID:5851-1676383200-1676386800@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:At the Origins of Monotheism: A Socio-economic Confrontation in Ancient Syro Mesoptamia
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhat is known as monotheism may be seen\, in it earliest manifestation\, in the light of an epistemic confrontation of the biblical tradition with the system of knowledge that had developed in the great cities of Mesopotamia. The paper presents a view that is at variance with the communis opinio\, both in terms of the nature of the confrontation and of its historical setting.  \nAs for the nature of the confrontation\, I consider the notion of fate as being more central to Syro-Mesopotamian religion than normally acknowledged. Polytheism was a major intellectual feat in its attempt at breaking down the absolute into component parts\, i.e.\, the deities that represent diverse elements of the world of nature. Fate had remained untouched by this process\, and in this regard it may be seen as a form of monotheism ante litteram. \nAs for the historical setting\, I consider the patriarchal tradition as encasing the epic memory of a Syro-Mesopotamian splinter group that detached itself from the land of the four banks at a time of de-urbanization in the middle Euphrates\, and in the process lost its contacts with the organized systems of cult and divination and brought new life to the notion of fate now seen as a living absolute. \nThis presentation comes at a point in the course when one looks at the founding figures\, and in particular Abraham. My approach puts the biblical patriarchal tradition in a different and very unconventional light\, drawing not only on the biblical text and on historical records\, but also on archaeology and ethnography. \n  \n\nGiorgio Buccellati is a Research Professor in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA\, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and in the Department of History at UCLA. He founded the Institute of Archaeology at UCLA\, of which he served as first director from 1973 until 1983 and where he is now Director of the Mesopotamian Lab. He is currently Director of IIMAS – The International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies and of AVASA – Associazione per la Valorizzazione dell’Archeologia e della Storia Antica.  \nHis research interests include the ancient languages\, the literature\, the religion\, the archaeology and the history of Mesopotamia\, as well as the theory of archaeology. His publications include site reports\, text editions\, linguistic and literary studies as well as on archaeological theory\, historical monographs and essays on philosophy and spirituality. In his field work\, he has developed new approaches to the preservation and presentation of archaeological sites and to community archaeology. With his wife Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati\, he has worked for many years in the Near East\, especially in Syria\, Iraq and Turkey. They are at present co-directors of the archaeological expedition to Tell Mozan/Urkesh in North-Eastern Syria. \n  \n[gravityform id=”142″ title=”false” description=”true”]\nPresented by: Giorgio Buccellati\, UCLA
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/at-the-origins-of-monotheism-a-socio-economic-confrontation-in-ancient-syro-mesoptamia-2/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 2209A\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T140000
DTSTAMP:20230131T203608Z
CREATED:20221117T195639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230131T203608Z
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SUMMARY:Mothers and Rituals of Child-Naming in Ancient Israel (Bible and the Ancient World series)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Professor Susan Ackerman of Dartmouth University. \nThis event will be recorded with no live audience and shared with community after. \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/mothers-and-rituals-of-child-naming-in-ancient-israel-bible-and-the-ancient-world-series/
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230101T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230101T000000
DTSTAMP:20221117T195816Z
CREATED:20221117T194157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221117T195816Z
UID:5807-1672531200-1672531200@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:At the Origins of Monotheism: A Socio-economic Confrontation in Ancient Syro Mesoptamia
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Professor Giorgio Buccellati of UCLA’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. \nDate/Time/Loc TBD
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/at-the-origins-of-monotheism-a-socio-economic-confrontation-in-ancient-syro-mesoptamia/
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221117T130000
DTSTAMP:20220922T003630Z
CREATED:20220922T003630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T003630Z
UID:5748-1668686400-1668690000@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal
DESCRIPTION:Throughout much of history\, the Jewish way of life has been characterized by strict adherence to the practices and prohibitions legislated by the Torah: dietary laws\, ritual purity\, circumcision\, Sabbath regulations\, holidays\, and more. But precisely when did this unique way of life first emerge\, and why specifically at that time? In his talk\, Professor Yonatan Adler will present the conclusions of his new book which methodically engages ancient texts and archaeological discoveries to identify the earliest evidence of Torah observance among ordinary Judeans. \n  \nProfessor Yonatan Adler is an Associate Professor in Archaeology at Ariel University in Israel\, where he also serves as Head of the Institute of Archaeology. Adler specializes in the origins of Judaism as a system of ritual practices\, and in the evolution of these practices over the long-term. Adler has served as a member of the Israeli Council for Archaeology since his 2018 appointment by the Israeli Minister of Culture. \n  \n  \nRSVP [gravityform id=”133″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/the-origins-of-judaism-an-archaeological-historical-reappraisal/
LOCATION:Haines 39/Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T170000
DTSTAMP:20220922T001225Z
CREATED:20220922T001225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T001225Z
UID:5741-1667923200-1667926800@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Why Religion Matters for Educational Stratification
DESCRIPTION:It’s well-known that Americans’ academic outcomes vary by race\, class\, and gender. But what about their religious upbringing? In this talk\, Dr. Ilana Horwitz will discuss findings from her recent book\, God\, Grades\, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success (January 2022\, Oxford UniversityPress). Drawing on 10 years of survey data with over 3\,000 teenagers and over 200 interviews\, Dr. Horwitz identifies a new type of childrearing logic that cuts across social class groups: religious restraint. Dr. Horwitz will explain why teens raised with religious restraint earn higher grades\, why they are more likely to graduate from college\, and why boys from working class and lower middle-class families benefit the most from religious restraint. Dr. Horwitz will also show how religious restraint recalibrates the academic ambitions of teens from the professional class\, especially girls\, leading them to question the value of selective colleges. \n  \n Dr. Ilana Horwitz is a sociologist of education and religion who examines how people’s religious upbringing\, social class\, gender\, ethnicity\, and race influence their life course\, especially their educational outcomes. Currently\, Dr. Horwitz is an Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology and Chair of Contemporary Jewish Life at Tulane University. Previously\, Dr. Horwitz was the Education Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Center on Longevity\, and she earned her PhD in Sociology of Education from Stanford University. Dr. Horwitz’s research has appeared in academic and public outlets\, including the American Sociological Review\, Social Science Research\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and Inside Higher Ed. Her current book projects include The Entrepreneurial Scholar: A Guide for Academics (under contract with Princeton University Press)\, and The Price of Good Intentions: Why Universities Can’t Deliver on their Diversity Promise. You can learn more about her at www.ilanahorwitz.com. \n  \nRSVP to receive a Zoom link:\n[gravityform id=”132″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/why-religion-matters-for-educational-stratification/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221020T170000
DTSTAMP:20221012T195934Z
CREATED:20221012T195934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221012T195934Z
UID:5737-1666281600-1666285200@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The God of Possibilities: God\, Human Freedom and the Obligation to Heal the World by Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller and Professor Leora F. Batnitzky as Respondent
DESCRIPTION:This discussion constitutes a personal effort at articulating a meaningful notion of God that is spiritually fulfilling\, intellectually uncompromising and morally compelling. The search ranges across the Jewish tradition from the fundamentals of Biblical monotheism to Maimonides’ rationalism and onto Hasidic mysticism. The result is a contemporary notion of God that can nurture personal humility and the development of an ethical personality. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies \n  \nRabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller recently celebrated his fortieth year of working with students and faculty as the Executive Director of the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA. He is currently Director Emeritus. He was ordained in 1971 at Yeshiva University where he completed a Masters in Rabbinic Literature. Chaim has been a lecturer in the Departments of Sociology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA and in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is currently a faculty member of the Shalom Hartman Institute\,North America and of the Wexner Heritage Foundation. He was the founding director of the Hartman Fellowship for Campus Professionals and a founding member of Americans for Peace Now. In 2014 he initiated a fact finding mission for non-Jewish student leaders to Israel and the Palestine Authority which is now offered on ninety campuses. In 2020 a Festschrift entitled Swimming Against the Current: Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the 21st Century was published in Chaim’s honor. \nDr. Leora Batnitzky is Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at Princeton University\, where she also directs Princeton’s Program in Judaic Studies. She is the author of several books\, edited collections\, and numerous articles and book chapters that span the fields of modern Jewish and Christian thought\, continental philosophy and philosophy of religion\, legal and political theory\, and biblical hermeneutics. She is currently writing a book on the Jewish apostate and Catholic Saint Edith Stein. \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”135″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/the-god-of-possibilities-god-human-freedom-and-the-obligation-to-heal-the-world-by-rabbi-chaim-seidler-feller-and-professor-leora-f-batnitzky-as-respondent/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T170000
DTSTAMP:20221011T224224Z
CREATED:20220922T005749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221011T224224Z
UID:5735-1666195200-1666198800@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Tending the Garden: Ahimsa in the Early Indian Literature
DESCRIPTION:Source: Shakyamuni Buddha – Jataka (Previous Lives). 1800\, Zanabazar Mongolia National Museum\, Mongolia\, https://www.himalayanart.org/items/50191. Accessed 22 Sept. 2022. \n  \nThe practice of ahiṃsā (non-violence) has a long and illustrious history both in South Asia\, where it originated\, and elsewhere. This talk will tour a selection of the rich body of texts composed by Jains\, Buddhists and Hindus in premodern India that engage with the theme of ahiṃsā to non-humans. These works range from imperial propaganda to stories that illustrate with engaging vividness the karmic dangers of injuring other living beings\, the rewards earned by those who refrain from doing so and the relationship between ahiṃsā and the doctrine of reincarnation. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Center for India and South Asia \n  \nDr. Anahita Hoose is a scholar of Indian languages\, texts and cultures. Originally from England\, she crossed the pond in 2016 to join the UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies as a PhD student and moved to the Center for the Study of Religion after graduating in 2022. In her PhD dissertation\, based on texts composed in Hindu\, Buddhist and Jain circles over a period of more than a thousand years\, she discusses the use of verbs in multiple premodern Indian languages. Her linguistic research is complemented by her interests in religion\, myth and literature and she has published articles on both linguistic and cultural topics. \n  \n  \nRSVP [gravityform id=”134″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/tending-the-garden-ahimsa-in-the-early-indian-literature/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall/Zoom
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T180000
DTSTAMP:20220922T233049Z
CREATED:20220921T164350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T233049Z
UID:5730-1665072000-1665079200@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Welcome Reception Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to attend the Center for the Study of Religion Fall 2022 Welcome Reception. We look forward to seeing you there!\n  \nEvent Flyer \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”131″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/welcome-reception-fall-2022/
LOCATION:Haines 39/Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220611T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220611T143000
DTSTAMP:20220509T202126Z
CREATED:20220509T181926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220509T202126Z
UID:5709-1654954200-1654957800@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Study of Religion: Commencement Toast 2022
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URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/study-of-religion-commencement-toast-2022/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220518T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220518T170000
DTSTAMP:20220510T222915Z
CREATED:20220324T184948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220510T222915Z
UID:5626-1652889600-1652893200@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Antisemitism in the Pagan World
DESCRIPTION:What counts as antisemitism? Did antisemitism exist among Greeks and Romans? How far and how deep did hostility to Jews extend in the pagan and pre-Christian world? What impact did it have on Jewish experience in the period of the Second Temple? In short\, was there a “Jewish problem” in Greco-Roman antiquity? \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Classics\, History Department\, and the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies \n  \nErich Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics\, Emeritus\, University of California\, Berkeley. His research and writing have been primarily in Roman history\, Hellenistic history\, and Jews in the Greco-Roman world. He has published or edited 14 books\, the most recent of which is Ethnicity in the Ancient World – – Did it Matter? (2020). Most important\, he has supervised or served on the PhD dissertation committees of over 100 students\, most of whom are now teaching in various colleges and universities in this country and abroad. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”128″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/antisemitism-in-the-pagan-world/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306/Zoom
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220517T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220517T170000
DTSTAMP:20220517T203750Z
CREATED:20220324T185054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220517T203750Z
UID:5624-1652803200-1652806800@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Wolakota kagapi: The Study of Peace Making on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, the Center for the Study of Religion must postpone this event due to extenuating circumstances. We apologize for the inconvenience\, and look forward to welcoming you at our next event. \n  \nThe Oglala Lakota Peace Making Team\, was instrumental in putting together a number of training sessions for community members to become Peace Makers. The tribe developed a Peace Making Room in the new court house. The Peace Making room is used for Peace Making for the community membership. \nA Peace Maker has a vision for the future\, knows traditional ways\, shares and develops leadership\, serves and protects the tribal community\, develops trust\, and shows respect for all tribal people. Native communities are centered on culture\, spirituality\, language\, and stories. They are not centered on financial profit\, politics\, or religion. These elements of culture are important for explaining the practice of (Wolakota) Peace making. \n  \nRichard Iron Cloud Ph.D.\, Oglala Lakota\, Richard is a founding member of the Oglala Lakota Peace-Making Team. A group of Oglala Lakota individuals who came together to look for alternatives to the Colonial System of Justice. Richard has been involved in social justice issues\, researching systems of oppression in its various forms. Richard believes in looking out for others needs rather than one’s own\, such behavior is salient in the Lakota (ounye) way of life. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”127″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/wolakota-kagapi-the-study-of-peace-making-on-the-pine-ridge-indian-reservation/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T180000
DTSTAMP:20220426T190500Z
CREATED:20220324T183321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T190500Z
UID:5621-1652374800-1652378400@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Losing Control of the gods: How Religion Slipped Out of the Hands of Men in the Early Roman Empire
DESCRIPTION:The dignified and extravagant public rituals of Romans – ancestral institutions as the last generations of the Republic imagined them – definitively failed in the last century BCE. Future senatorial priests presided only over the cults of a city that was less and less a capital. In place of a narrative of early imperial religion that sets the worship of the emperors at its center\, I shall argue for a systemic shift in the religious order\, a disintegration of authority that reflected much wider changes in the nature of Roman culture. \n  \nReferences \nBeard\, Mary\, John North and Simon Price (1998). Religions of Rome. 2 volumes. Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press. \nFeeney\, Denis (1998). Literature and religion at Rome. Culture\, contexts and beliefs. Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press. \nFeeney\, Denis (2016). Beyond Greek. The beginnings of Latin literature. Cambridge MA\, Harvard University Press. \nGasparini\, Valentino\, et al. Eds. (2020). Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Berlin & Boston\, de Gruyter. \nMacRae\, Duncan (2016). Legible religion. Books\, gods\, and rituals in Roman culture Cambridge MA\, Harvard University Press. \nNongbri\, Brent (2013). Before Religion. A history of a modern concept. New Haven & London\, Yale University Press. \nRüpke\, Jörg (2018). Pantheon. A New History of Roman Religion. Princeton NJ\, Princeton University Press. \nRüpke\, Jörg and Greg Woolf\, Eds. (2021). Religion in the Roman Empire. Stuttgart\, Verlag W.Kohlhammer. \nScheid\, John (2016). The gods\, the state\, and the individual. Reflections on civic religion in Rome. Philadelphia\, University of Pennsylvania Press. \nVárhelyi\, Zsusanna (2010). The Religion of Senators in the Roman Empire. Power and the beyond. Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Classics and the History Department \n  \nGreg Woolf arrived in UCLA in September 2021 to become the first Ronald J Mellor Professor of Ancient History. Before then he directed the Institute of Classical Studies in the School of Advanced Study in London for six years\, and before that was Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has held visiting appointments in Brazil\, France\, Germany\, Italy and Spain. His work straddles the fields of ancient history and archaeology\, and he has published on a range of cultural historical subjects from the history of libraries and the impact of Roman imperialism on ancient societies to (more recently) numerous studies of Roman religion and Roman urbanism. His most recent books are the second edition of Rome. An Empire’s Story (Oxford 2022) and (with his long term collaborator Jörg Rüpke the edited collection Religion in the Roman Empire.) He is a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Center for the Study of Religion. \n  \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”126″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/losing-control-of-the-gods-how-religion-slipped-out-of-the-hands-of-men-in-the-early-roman-empire/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 248
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220511T130000
DTSTAMP:20220329T172533Z
CREATED:20220324T182523Z
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SUMMARY:The Ten Commandments: Who What When Where Why
DESCRIPTION:For over two thousand years the Ten Commandments have been understood as the fundamental set of divine laws in the Hebrew Bible. Even for those who do not believe that Moses wrote the Pentateuch\, the Ten Commandments have retained their place as especially ancient\, and especially important in the religious and communal life of Israel. In this lecture\, Joel Baden will explain why this is\, essentially\, all wrong – and how we should understand\, and grapple with\, the true origins of these most famous words. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and its Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series \n  \nProf. Joel Baden works widely in the field of Hebrew Bible\, with special attention to the literary history of the Pentateuch. He is the author\, most recently\, of The Book of Exodus: A Biography (Princeton University Press\, 2019). His other books include J\, E\, and the Redaction of the Pentateuch (Mohr Siebeck\, 2009); The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis (Yale University Press\, 2012); The Promise to the Patriarchs (Oxford University Press\, 2013); The Historical David: The Real Life of an Invented Hero (HarperOne\, 2013); Reconceiving Infertility: Biblical Perspectives on Procreation and Childlessness (with Candida Moss; Princeton University Press\, 2015); and Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby (with Candida Moss; Princeton University Press\, 2017). He is the co-editor of the volumes The Strata of the Priestly Writings: Contemporary Debate and Future Directions (TVZ\, 2009)\, Sibyls\, Scriptures\, and Scrolls (Brill\, 2017)\, and The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch (with Jeffrey Stackert; Oxford University Press\, 2021).  \nCurrent projects include editing The Routledge Handbook of Marginalization in the Bible and a special issue of the journal Religions devoted to the Hebrew Bible\, race\, and racism\, along with writing forthcoming commentaries on Deuteronomy (IECOT)\, Exodus (Anchor)\, and Lamentations (Oxford). \nProf. Baden has published numerous scholarly articles and essays. He has also written widely for a popular audience\, in venues such as The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Slate\, The Los Angeles Times\, Politico\, CNN\, and The Daily Beast.   \n  \n[gravityform id=”125″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/the-ten-commandments-who-what-when-where-why/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:CSR
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SUMMARY:Song of Songs\, Time after Time
DESCRIPTION:The Song of Songs has been subject to numerous and varying interpretive approaches since its emergence. Drawing from her recently published book\, Perils of Wisdom: The Scriptural Solomon in Jewish Tradition\, Dr. Keiter will focus on varying Jewish interpretive strategies toward the Song\, highlighting the development of Jewish biblical exegesis and its impact on the King Solomon legend in Jewish thought. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and its Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series \n  \nDr. Sheila Keiter is a Near Eastern Languages and Cultures alumna and former Teaching Fellow in the UCLA English Department. She is currently an instructor at Shalhevet High School and a Regular Contributor for the “Table for Five” Torah panel column in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal. Keiter recently published\, Perils of Wisdom: The Scriptural Solomon in Jewish Tradition (2021). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”124″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/song-of-songs-time-after-time/
LOCATION:Haines 39/Zoom
CATEGORIES:CSR
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SUMMARY:Do Robots Have Souls? Intelligent Machines\, Digital Humans\, and the Future of Technology 
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Sylvester A. Johnson interprets the work of Ibn Rushd (“Averroës”)\, the twelfth-century Islamic scholar of Andalusia who achieved renown as the ‘father’ of secularism\, in order to elucidate Ibn Rushd’s theory of the intellect as a power of the soul. Johnson leverages Rushd’s distinction between sensing and knowing in order to examine contemporary\, sensory-driven AI technology (particularly brain-computer-interface architectures) as a uniquely generative problem of interest for humanists and technical experts alike. Of central importance is the sensation of pain\, as it constitutes a phenomenon of embodiment\, a category of human experience\, and a political problem. \n  \n  \nSylvester A. Johnson is Assistant Vice Provost for the Humanities and Executive Director of the “Tech for Humanity” initiative advancing human-centered approaches to technology at Virginia Tech. He is the founding director of Virginia Tech’s Center for Humanities\, which is supporting human-centered research and humanistic approaches to the guidance of technology. Sylvester’s research has examined religion\, race\, and empire in the Atlantic world; religion and sexuality; national security practices; and the impact of intelligent machines and human enhancement on human identity and race. He is a Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture and a design-team affiliate faculty member in Virginia Tech’s socio-technical\, transdisciplinary Calhoun Discovery Program. In addition to co-facilitating a national working group on religion and US empire\, he co-leads a project at Virginia Tech\, supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, to develop ethically designed\, public-interest Artificial Intelligence that can benefit an innovation-driven society. \nSylvester is the author of The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity (Palgrave 2004)\, a study of race and religious hatred that won the American Academy of Religion’s Best First Book award; and African American Religions\, 1500-2000 (Cambridge 2015)\, an award-winning interpretation of five centuries of democracy\, colonialism\, and freedom in the Atlantic world. Johnson has also co-edited The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and After 9/11 (University of California 2017) and Religion and US Empire (appearing from NYU Press in 2022). He is a founding co-editor of the Journal of Africana Religions. Sylvester is writing a book on human identity in an age of intelligent machines and human-machine symbiosis. \nHe currently leads “Future Humans\, Human Futures” at Virginia Tech\, a series of research institutes and symposia funded by the Henry Luce foundation that focus on technology\, ethics\, and religion. He is also directing the creation of a university-wide “Tech for Humanity” undergraduate minor\, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, to prepare future talent at the intersection of humanities\, social justice\, and technology. \n  \n[gravityform id=”123″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/do-robots-have-souls-intelligent-machines-digital-humans-and-the-future-of-technology/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Michael Schur
DESCRIPTION:Michael Schur is a television producer\, writer\, actor and author of How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Questions. With Pamela Hieronymi\, Professor at UCLA Department of Philosophy\, this conversation with explore the role of religion in contemplating moral and ethical decision-making. \nHOW TO BE PERFECT: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question sets out to do for moral philosophy what A Brief History of Time did for astrophysics. (But with jokes!) And by the time the book is done\, the reader will know exactly how to act in every conceivable situation\, so as to produce a verifiably maximal amount of moral good. He will be perfect\, and all his friends will be jealous. OK\, not quite. Instead\, the reader will gain fresh\, funny\, inspiring wisdom on the toughest issues we face every day. The hope is that – in a world of ever-increasing moral stakes and intense disagreement – HOW TO BE PERFECT will provide a foundation for all of us to consider our behavior and ponder how we can do better and be better to one another. \n  \nRSVP at https://eventsrsvp.ucla.edu/MichaelSchur/logon.aspx?NoID=Y \n\nMichael Schur is a television writer and producer who has worked on shows like The Office\, Master of None\, The Comeback and Hacks\, and created or co-created Parks and Recreation\, Brooklyn 99\, The Good Place and Rutherford Falls. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jennifer\, and their two kids\, William and Ivy. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/a-conversation-with-michael-schur/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
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SUMMARY:Study of Religion: Spring Snack Social
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URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/spring-snack-social/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
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