Translation As Linguistical and Bodily Metamorphosis
There are two distinct concepts of translation at work in the encounter between an Amazonian Indigenous people, the Wari’, and the New Tribes Mission evangelical missionaries. While the missionaries c...
2 Apr 20231h 26min
Reflecting on Religion and the Legacies of Slavery
This conversation was the last of the six-part series Religion and the Legacies of Slavery | A Series of Public Online Conversations. The featured speakers were HDS professors Karen L. King, David F. ...
23 Mar 20231h 27min
What Does It Mean to Awaken Our Dignity?
What is dignity? Is it something conferred upon us externally by others, or an inner quality that we all possess? Drawing from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Phakchok Rinpoche provides a fresh unders...
22 Mar 20231h 11min
Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence and Roadblocks to Political Expression
Amahl A. Bishara, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, and author of "Back Stories: U.S. News Producation and Palestinian Politics," discusses her book "Crossing a Line: Laws, Viol...
22 Mar 20231h 1min
Dancing Altars
In this lecture Visiting Assistant Professor of African Religions and Women's Studies in Religion Program 2022-23 Research Associate Elyan Hill discusses embodied visualities and domestic enslavement ...
20 Mar 20231h 10min
Music, Voice, and Healing: A Conversation with Grace Nono
Join Research Associate Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani in her conversation with Dr. Grace Nono as they discuss Dr. Nono’s work as an ethnographer and performer, about shamanism in the Philippines, and some o...
14 Mar 202358min
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
