Slavers and Slavery: A Dialogue with Descendants
Slavery is most readily associated with the U.S. American South with the geographies of the North often eclipsed. Tracey Hucks, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies at HDS and Suza...
10 Mar 20231h 31min
Displacement and Belonging in Israel/Palestine: Harvard Student Stories of Learning in Context
On March 2, 2023, a cohort of Harvard Divinity School students engaged in an evening of storytelling, poetry, and photography as they shared their experiences of joy and resistance from their summer i...
10 Mar 20231h 41min
Leading Toward Justice: Intersections of Religion, Ethics, and Community Organizing
The Leading Toward Justice webinar series features panel discussions spotlighting alumni impact in the world and the ways alumni leverage their HDS training while working in secular or public professi...
10 Mar 202358min
Faculty Focus: Monica Sanford on Multireligious Ministry for the Twenty-first Century
Monica Sanford, Assistant Dean for Multireligious Ministry and Lecturer in Ministry Studies at HDS, talks about the evolution and importance of multireligious ministry and setting students up for succ...
6 Mar 202325min
Memory, History, and the Ethics of Reparations
The 1619 Project spawned an unprecedented national conversation in and outside the classroom on slavery’s ongoing afterlives in American society. The enthusiastic response to the project was not unive...
4 Mar 20231h 24min
Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses
In this event, Dr. Amy Hale and Dr. Christa Shusko present their book Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses, edited by Amy Hale. They discuss some of the latest ...
26 Feb 202358min
Wearing Divine Protection
As a state-of-the-art “wearable technology” of the time, talismans provided protection, perquisites, and prescriptions for the devotees of premodern Korean Buddhism. Among a varied array of talismans ...
23 Feb 20231h 26min
Initiated by the Spirits with Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, PhD & Randy Chung Gonzales
Randy Chung Gonzales was leading an ordinary life in his hometown of Lamas, Peru, when his employer, anthropologist Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, asked him to accompany her to an ayahuasca ceremony led b...
23 Feb 20231h 23min
