We know times are tough and hope you are all doing well. To help spread the word, we are sharing this link to the university’s Academic Recovery Package for undergraduates. Please explore the site for resources that may help you navigate this trying time.
Please join us in congratulating the newest winner of the Provost Student Excellence Award 2020! Justin Smith is a Religious Studies major and senior at UNCG. He plans to pursue a Master of Divinity degree after graduating in Spring 2020. Justin is also the recipient of the Becky Jackson Religious… Continue reading…
Check out our pamphlet & course booklet to select your Fall 2020 classes!
Due to a great public response, the Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum will remain open an extra week, so the exhibition will be up until THURSDAY, MARCH 19th! Greensboro Project Space will be open by appointment only during this time. Please call (845-405-9159) or email (greensboroprojectspace@gmail.com) them to schedule your visit.
Dr. Dana Logan will be joining the Religious Studies Department next year (Fall 2020) as an Assistant Professor. She is a scholar of American religion and ritual who works on the history of evangelicalism, religion and politics in the nineteenth-century United States, and the experience of ritual in everyday life…. Continue reading…
March 25, 4pm – 5pm at EUC, Maple Lecture given by Dr. Alyssa Gabbay of UNCG
March 19, 6pm – 7pm Lecture given by Dr. Dennis Trout from the University of Missouri Location TBD Co-Sponsored with Classical Studies
Tuesday, October 8, 6-7 pm, Faculty Center “Women Outside Their Apartments: A Moroccan Feminist’s Cinematic Vision” A lecture by Dr. Florence Martin, Goucher College Moroccan, Muslim, feminist pioneer filmmaker Farida Benlyazid has always been subversive. Looking at the arc of her work from her auto-fiction A Door to the Sky (1988) to… Continue reading…
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 5:30-6:30pm, Faculty Center “‘Unintelligible Babel’: How Enslaved Muslims Used Arabic to Pursue Freedom” A lecture by Ayla Amon, Smithsonian Institution Of the more than 12.5 million enslaved Africans transported to the New World during the transatlantic slave trade, estimates suggest that at least 25% were Muslim. They… Continue reading…
