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SUMMARY:2019-20 Calendar of Events
DESCRIPTION:Click here for 2019-20 Calendar of Events\n  \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/2019-20-calendar-of-events/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T090000
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SUMMARY:Symposium: “On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives”
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the UCLA Department of African American Studies \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion \nA Symposium featuring Keynote Speaker Gloria Wekker\, Professor Emerita at Utrecht University\, The Netherlands\, and a renowned scholar of Black feminism\, Dutch anticolonialism\, and diaspora. \nKey Symposium questions will include: How do marginalized experiences of Blackness within Europe\, especially the interventions of Black Muslims\, LGBTQI*\, and/or those rendered non-citizen (e.g.\, refugees or asylum seekers)\, challenge one-dimensional conceptualizations of Blackness? How have contemporary contributions to the transnational continuations of the Black Radical and Black feminist traditions been brought to bear in various European contexts? How do various Black struggles unfold in the face of genocidal border regimes\, urban policing and surveillance\, neoliberal austerity policies and the current rise of right-wing extremism\, gender violence\, and Islamophobia?
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/symposium-on-the-matter-of-blackness-in-europe-transnational-perspectives/
LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library and Royce Hall
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SUMMARY:Fall 2019 Welcome Reception
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to attend the Center for the Study of Religion Fall 2019 Welcome Reception. We look forward to seeing you there!\n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”83″ title=”false” description=”true”]\n  \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/fall-2019-welcome-reception/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T160000
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SUMMARY:Secular Rituals: How Nonreligious People Make Religion Less Religious
DESCRIPTION:As more Americans become nonreligious\, life-cycle rituals and other ceremonies that religious experts once performed are increasingly the responsibility of everyday people and ritual experts for hire. Very secular people avoid rituals or work hard to minimize their resemblance to religion. Secular people who have left strict religious groups often rebel by inverting the rituals they once felt obligated to perform\, which also allows them to hang onto parts of themselves they continue to value. Most nonreligious people simply want weddings or memorial services that avoid God-talk and feel familiar\, but not too religious. All of these ways of engaging in ritual tell a story about secularism’s awkward relationship with religion and the strangeness of being secular. Drawing on several years of ethnographic research and discussing rituals as varied as a bat mitzvah\, a Día de los Muertos celebration\, and an inversion of Eid called Haramadan\, this lecture describes how nonreligious people make religious rituals and practices feel more secular—and how in so doing they are changing what it means to be religious in America today. \n  \n Joseph Blankholm is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His interdisciplinary research focuses on atheism and secularism\, primarily in the United States. Most recently\, he has published on Karl Marx’s forgotten secularism (forthcoming in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion) and the contradictory ways in which American law understands secular people (Public Culture 2018). He is currently at work on a manuscript about organized nonbelievers and their ambivalent relationship with religion. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”84″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/secular-rituals-how-nonreligious-people-make-religion-less-religious/
LOCATION:Royce 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T080000
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SUMMARY:The Báb\, Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi (1819 - 1850): His Life\, Writings\, and Religion
DESCRIPTION:Schedule:\n8am-9am: Light breakfast \n9am-12:30pm: Morning Session: The Movement of the Báb \nWelcome by Dr. Simon Joseph (UCLA) \nModerated by Dr. Nahid Pirnazar (UCLA) \nPerformance by Dr. Manouchehr Sadeghi \nIntroduced by Dr. Latifeh Hagigi (UCLA) \nPresentations by Dr. Sholeh Quinn (UC Merced)\, Dr. Abbas Amanat (Yale University)\, and Dr. Janet Afary (UC Santa Barbara) \n12:30pm-2pm: Break for Lunch \n2pm-5:30pm: Afternoon Session: The Writings of the Báb \nModerated by Dr. Nayereh Tohidi (Cal State Northridge) \nPerformance by Gordafarid \nIntroduced by Dr. Latifeh Hagigi (UCLA) \nPresentations by Dr. Todd Lawson (University of Toronto)\, Dr. Stephen Lambden (UC Merced)\, and Dr. Nader Saiedi (UCLA) \n  \nThis conference commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the founder of the Bábí religion and one of the twin prophets of the Bahá’í Faith. The Báb\, whose short but dramatic ministry challenged both the clerical and political structures of 19th century Iran\, reinterpreted and reconstructed the major traditional theological concepts and categories through a synthesis of mysticism and historical/dialectical consciousness. His writings began with a reinterpretation of Shi’ih millenarian expectation of the coming of the 12th Imam\, and culminated in his own announcement that his revelation would be followed by a higher revelation. Despite the massacre of the Bábís by state and clerical authorities\, his movement was partly secularized in the reform movements of 20th century Iran\, and partly institutionalized through the Bahá’í Faith. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”85″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/the-bab-sayyid-ali-muhammad-shirazi-1819-1850-his-life-his-writings-and-his-religion/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Blackbird Blues
DESCRIPTION:CHICAGO\, Illinois – The height of the Civil Rights era merges with the hauntingly beautiful swinging sounds of Chicago jazz in award-winning reporter and psychologist Jean K. Carney’s debut novel\, “Blackbird Blues” (Oct. 1\, 2019\, Bedazzled Ink Publishing). \nFollowing the death of her teacher and mentor Sister Michaeline\, aspiring jazz singer Mary Kaye meets Lucius\, Sister’s former love and father of their estranged son\, Benny. The two unite to bond over their mutual loss\, with Mary Kaye helping Lucius and Benny mend their fractured relationship. Decades of secrets lie behind the heartache as Mary Kaye struggles with an unwanted pregnancy that could derail her dreams. \nCarney’s work as a reporter covering Roe v. Wade\, her extensive research\, and decades of experience as a psychologist helped her write this stunning piece of fiction with historically accurate characters so realistic it’s as if they were pulled right off the streets of Chicago during the Civil Rights era. Behind its themes of racism\, abortion\, and child abandonment\, this heartbreaking and timely novel ponders two pressing issues of human existence: What do we owe our children? What do we owe ourselves? \n  \nJEAN K. CARNEY is the author of “Blackbird Blues” (Oct. 1\, 2019\, Bedazzled Ink Publishing). She spent eight years as an award-winning reporter and editorial writer at the Milwaukee Journal\, covering Children’s Court\, City Hall\, and Roe v. Wade. She earned a Ph.D. in Human Development at the University of Chicago and trained at a large Chicago inner-city psychiatric hospital. She taught psychology at St. Xavier University\, was director of a clinic that provided low-cost psychoanalytic treatment\, and supervised psychologists in training for 13 years. In full-time private practice as a psychologist for 30 years in the Chicago Loop\, she saw patients from all walks of life and ethnic backgrounds in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. After her husband died of ALS\, she edited his last book\, “Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination\,” stopped publishing in professional psychoanalytic venues\, and turned to fiction. She has since remarried and is the mother of a son and a son and daughter by marriage. \n  \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”89″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-blackbird-blues/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
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