RLST News and Events

Their session “The Lives and Afterlives of Buddhist Masters” delves into the lives of Yeshe Tsogyal and Milarepa and their ongoing influence and presence in ritual, pilgrimage, visual arts and more. Visit https://jlflitfest.org/colorado for the schedule and to register. JLF Colorado is an annual literary festival held at the Boulder...

The Leiden Arabic Humanities and Islamic Thought Blog features a post by Aun Hasan Ali about his recent contribution (co-authored with Hadi Qazwini and Yusuf Ünal) to Shiʿite Legal Theory: Sources and Commentaries . "Our contribution to the volume comes from a commentary titled al-Wāfī fī sharḥ al-Wāfiya by the...

What if the Tower of Babel story in the Bible is not really about the origins of languages? What if it’s also not about a tower and had nothing originally to do with Babylon? Podcast with Dr.Boyd discussing his new book ​ In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy...

Brian Catlos was selected as Faculty Awardee for his work on Mediterranean Studies and with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group (since 2011) and the Mediterranean Seminar , both of which he founded and directs (the latter with Sharon Kinoshita of UCSC). The CU Mediterranean Studies group is an interdisciplinary collaborative...

Against the background of long-standing narratives in which Twelver Shi‘ism is viewed as fundamentally authoritarian, this talk builds upon recent scholarship in the fields of Religious Studies and Anthropology to argue that Twelver Shi‘ism is better understood as a discursive tradition. At a conceptual level, this solves the basic problem...

Loriliai Biernacki’s The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta ’s Panentheism and New Materialism argues that we can use the philosophical writing of the 11th century Indian philosopher Abhinavagupta on the nature of wonder and subjectivity to help make sense of our current complex world. Abhinavagupta’s insights on the nature of self...

Religious Studies graduate student Chelsea Kennedy was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) award from the Center for Asian Studies. This competitive award is intended to support intensive language study in a formal modern Asian language program over the summer. Chelsea will use the award to study Arabic...

Professor Samuel Boyd was selected as a member of the Faculty Leadership Institute Fellowship for the AY 2022-2023. The fellowship gathers faculty members from a variety of departments to discuss issues of administration at various levels within the university. Fellows hear about the leadership stories and histories of other mid-to-advanced...