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"Cowboy Apocalypse: 13 Ways of Looking at a Gun"

October 24, 2024

Speakers:

Rachel Wagner (Ithaca College)

The cowboy apocalypse has been relayed through film, video games, and television shows, as well as through rituals, live events, and scripted pract

Navigating the Politics of Muslim Neo-Traditionalist Shaykhs

October 18, 2024

Speakers:

Walaa Quisay (University of Edinburgh)

Exploring tensions between traditional orientations and modern subjectivities, the pursuit of enchantment, and existing in a disenchanted, secular

"The Struggle for Palestine on the World Stage, 1947-1949"

October 15, 2024

Speakers:

Derek Penslar (Harvard University)

This talk examines how the public in the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and Latin America perceived the post-World War II Palestine question and

Anti-Haitianism, Statelessness, and Religious Practice in the Bahamas

November 7, 2024

Speakers:

Bertin M. Louis Jr. (University of Kentucky)

Detail from the painting &quot;Squirrels in a Plane Tree&quot;

"Squirrels in a Plane Tree? Mughal Painting and Islamic Ontology"

October 17, 2024

Speakers:

Murad Khan Mumtaz (Williams College)

Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition.

"Exploring the physicality in Manto’s language"

September 13, 2024

Speakers:

Leo Van Cleynenbreugel (Ghent University)

A lecture on the works of the renowned and controversial author, Saadat Hasan Manto. Organized by the DSR's Professor Srilata Raman.

DSR Lecture Series: "Vindication of Invention: World Religions to Lived Religion"

March 20, 2025

Speakers:

Marko Geslani (University of South Carolina)

Despite its generative influence for postcolonial studies, Edward Said’s Orientalism has had a limited impact, at best, in Religious Studi

DSR Lecture Series: "Unmooring Utopia: Death and Desire in Early Modern Christian Fictions"

February 6, 2025

Speakers:

Constance Furey (Indiana University, Bloomington)

In this talk Constance Furey reinterprets the relationship between death and desire in Thomas More’s Utopia, a 1516 work that gave its nam

DSR Lecture Series: “Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt”

November 14, 2024

Speakers:

Mona Oraby (Howard University)

Toronto Newar Summer School Public Event

Roundtable: "Towards a Collectively Translated Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Newar Verse" [in English]

June 7, 2024

Speakers:

Christoph Emmrich (University of Toronto)

Marilena Frisone (University College Cork)

Kritish Rajbhandari (Reed College)

Bal Gopal Shrestha (Leiden)

Ian Turner (University of Toronto)

Five translators with different linguistic backgrounds, but all engaging with Newar in their ongoing academic work came together just over a year a

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