HDS 2022 Convocation: "Legacies of Slavery: Bondage and Resistance"
Harvard Divinity School marked the opening of the 2022-23 academic year with its 207th Convocation. Harvard Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin delivered the address, titled "Legacies of Slave...
8 Syys 20221h 7min
Univitalism and American Law
Curiously, the English language lacks a word for “the belief that human beings only live once.” In this talk, Professor Steven Arrigg Koh discussed this long-held belief in the United States, prevalen...
18 Elo 20221h 27min
Expressions of Sumoud in Palestinian Higher Education
What is the role of Palestinian universities in the struggle for freedom and justice? Rana Khoury, Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow and Vice President for Development at Dar Al-Kalima U...
18 Elo 202258min
Yom Ha’atzmaut and the Colonization of American Judaism
In conversation with Daniel Boyarin, Rabbi Brant Rosen interrogated the ways that Zionist hegemony is expressed through the Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) that has become a staple on the Am...
23 Touko 20221h 5min
Psychedelics, Spirituality, and a Culture of Seekership
Sixty years ago on Good Friday, a famous experiment took place at Boston University's Marsh Chapel conducted by Harvard Divinity School student Walter Pahnke, where he tried to answer the question: Do...
12 Touko 202224min
HDS Reorientation and Common Conversation Closing Session
Our year-long, intentional engagement with our Common Read text, "Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation," by Nick Estes, Melanie K. Yazzie, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, and David...
6 Touko 20221h 58min
Author Discussion: "We God's People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations"
Jocelyne Cesari, J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding, discussed her recent publication, "We God's People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nati...
4 Touko 20221h 24min
2022 Billings Preaching Prize Competition
Each spring, the Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Finals, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. Congratulations to MDiv candi...
4 Touko 202235min
