Your First Heart is Not in Your Chest: An African Indigenous Interrogation of the ‘Divine Feminine’
The resurgence of the “divine feminine” as a discursive concept and framework in religious studies and in popular practice in Europe and the United States, raises the question of the salience of the c...
16 Apr 20221h 27min
Healing from Extremism: How Community Members Can Help Loved Ones Exit Hate
What drives people to join hate groups? And when they decide to leave, what comes next? "Healing from Extremism" was a panel event featuring former extremists, chaplains, and current Parents for Peace...
16 Apr 20221h 52min
Ways of Knowing through the Changing Landscapes of Esoteric Art
For many years esoteric and occult practices in art have been sidelined as marginal and even taboo within art historical discourses. However, the recent cultural explosion of interest in esotericism a...
6 Apr 202257min
A Home for the Human Spirit: Cultural Activism and the Moral Imagination in the Inherit Art Project
This presentation chronicled the evolution of the collaborative art exhibition, "Ye Shall Inherit the Earth & Faces of the Divine." The exhibition, featuring works of artists from the African Diaspori...
6 Apr 20221h
Paranthropology: The Anthropology of the Paranormal
What is the paranormal? How can we make sense of out-of-the-ordinary experiences? How can we study the paranormal—anthropologically? In this talk, Dr. Jack Hunter and Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani discussed...
30 Mar 202257min
To Eat Alone Is to Die Alone: A Voyage into the Lives of Seeds and Their Communities
In this talk, Vivien Sansour shared excerpts of her upcoming autobiographical book weaving a poetic narration of people, plants, and other food stories from Palestine to South America, taking us on he...
28 Mar 202258min
Words Surviving Siege and War: Poems from Gaza
This event featured seven poets from Gaza-Palestine who in May 2021 were working to submit their poems to "Peripheries" while under Israeli attacks. Five of the poets write in Arabic while two, the co...
28 Mar 202256min
Assessing Domestic US Religious Politics’ Impact on Foreign Policy
On February 24-25, a convening of Religion and Public Life and the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University brought together a small group of scholars and activists to assess t...
22 Mar 20221h 37min
