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The religion department hosts a variety of speakers and lecturers on campus, inviting them to address the intersection of religion with politics, architecture, environmentalism, mass media, and more.

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Lecture Series

The Department of Religion invites notable speakers to campus as to provide students with additional perspectives.

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Past Event Highlights

  • (Visual Artist); Exhibition at Clifford Gallery and On-site Mural Workshop 
  • Professor Brenton Sullivan Participated in an
  • Professor Jenna Reinbold Works In Progress Brown Bag Session
  • is a journalism professor at New York University and a contributing writer for The New York Times. Lecture:
  • (Univ of Otago, NZ) Author:  Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka. Lecture: 
  • Robert Garland, Professor Emeritus Lecture: "" Presents a case for polytheism, drawing upon the religious expressions of ancient Greece.
  • Professor Steven Kepnes Works In Progress Brown Bag Session:
  •  (Rice University) Lecture:
  •  An Indonesian art form: a dozen musicians perform an excerpt from the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.
  • with Harold Roth, professor of religion, director of the Contemplative Studies Initiative and Concentration, and co-founder of the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. 
  • Professor Georgia Frank Works In Progress Brown Bag Session:  
  • discussed convent life, self-fashioning, and nuns' portraiture in colonial Peru in my course 'Nuns Having Fun in Colonial Latin America'. Lecture: 
  • Jeff Shore (professor emeritus in Zen Studies, )  Lectures:   and
  • , Playwrights discus their plays that deal with Ukrainians living through the current war as well as the Holocaust and WWII.
  •  - Author, Podcaster, Scholar of Sanskrit
  • - UCSB Religious Studies Department
  •  - Babka-Making Workshop, Cinematographer
  •  and scholar of religion and artist 
  • Zaid Kurdieh of  and , , Human Rights Lawyer and Activist
  • , Political Science Colombo University Sri Lanka, 
  • Marilyn Thie and Mary Canavan,
  •  Yale Religious Studies and Author
  •  - Author of Ancient Greek tragedy, Hamilton College
  •  - Author, Podcastor, University of Toronto
  •  - University of Chicago
  •  - Author, Emory University Professor, Cultural Anthropologist
  •  - Navajo Blessingway Stories 
  • , an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University.