Faculty Focus: Charles Stang on Why 'Dune' Makes for Good Academic Inquiry
In this first episode of Faculty Focus, HDS Professor Charles M. Stang discusses psychedelics and spirituality, early Christianity and demonology, and why Dune makes for good academic inquiry. Facult...
3 Okt 202221min
Earth Bound: Welcoming a New Artwork by Ramona Peters
Harvard Divinity School and the Swartz Hall Art Committee celebrate the unveiling of "Earth Bound," an original creation by artist and Mashpee Wampanoag tribal member Ramona Peters. The ceremony incl...
26 Sep 20221h 11min
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 Sep 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 20221h 58min
