RLST News and Events

Professor Brian Catlos, Religious Studies, will be delivering a lecture " From Bobby Fisher & Bob Dylan To Bill Gates: Islam, Medieval Spain, and the Roots of the Modern West " Rock and roll, chess and the digital revolution: what does Islam have to do with modern Western culture? Everything...

Christian K. Wedemeyer of the University of Chicago Divinity School will be delivering the annual Lester Lecture in Religious Studies on November 2 at 6pm in the British Studies Room on the 5th Floor of Norlin Library. The lecture is titled, "'Merely a Gesture': Semiology, Ritual, and Reality among South...

Religious Studies majors Vincent Pretti and Grace Edwards have each been awarded a Katherine Jacob Lamont Scholarship for AY 2015-2016. Congratulations to both on their stunning achievements!

This Fall, Jaipur Literature Festival, the world's largest literary festival, will travel to Boulder, Colorado as a creative caravan of writers and thinkers, poets and balladeers. In true JLF fashion, the festival will start with a sublime morning music session and end with a riveting debate. Showcasing South Asia’s unique...

Recent MA graduate (Summer 2015) Jonathan Peterson has accepted a full-ride to the University of Toronto - Department for the Study of Religion / the Centre for South Asian Studies where he will begin working on his PhD. Congratulations to Jonathan on this remarkable achievement!

Religious Studies Professors Deborah Whitehead and Loriliai Biernacki are featured in a 9 News segment "People Planet: The Search for God." Click here to view the story.

Brilliantly, the Humanities Let Their Light Shine. Religious Studies faculty highlighted in new article from Steven Leigh, Dean of College of Arts & Science. (click here to read article)

Religous Studies/History MA graduate Aaron Stamper has been accepted to the PhD program in the History Department at Princeton University in which he will continue his studies in Early Modern Mediterranean and Iberian Peninsula Studies with a focus on Muslim, Jewish, and Christian relations. Aaron credits his advisor, Professor Brian...

On February 18th, Aaron Proffitt, Religious Studies MA graduate 2008, successfully defended his dissertation at the University of Michigan for a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies. Shortly thereafter, he traveled to Albany, NY to interview for a position as Assistant Professor of Japanese Religion at SUNY Albany. We're pleased to announce...

Eben Yonnetti, MA candidate, received the CU Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grant to help fund his research "Translation as Interpretation: Challenging the Invisibility of Translators in Tibetan Buddhist Practice Texts." Congratulations Eben!