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Come join the Department of Religious Studies and guest speaker Dr. Nyasha Junior on “Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, and Biblical Studies” on Wednesday, October 11th at 4:30pm. Event will be in B342 Wells Hall. www.religiousstudies.msu.edu for more info!
Come join the Department of Religious Studies and guest speaker Dr. Andrew Jacobs on “Gospel Thrillers: Fear, Desire, and the US Bible” on Monday, October 16th at 4:30pm. Event will be in B342 Wells Hall. www.religiousstudies.msu.edu for more info!
“Religion, Ethics, and Climate Change” with Dr. Jonathan Brockopp
Wednesday, January 17th, 7:00pm
303 International Center
For more than a century, Pentecostal Signs Followers have handled venomous snakes during worship services, risking death as evidence of their unwavering faith. What is their faith about, and what motivates them to continue their potentially lethal practices across generations?
Reincarnation in America
with Dr. Lee Irwin
Professor at College of Charleston
Please Join us for the ENG MUSE Program x CLS Guest Lecture by
Dr. Sara Ramírez, Texas State University
Thursday November 15, 2018
5:30-7:00pm | Wells Hall B-342
“Reassembling Subjects of Trauma: Coyolxauhqui’s New Plight in Virginia Grise’s blu”
Dr. Guy-Sheftall, previous President of the National Women’s Studies Association, has published a number of texts within African American and Women’s Studies which include the first anthology on Black women’s literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (Doubleday, 1979). She has been involved in a number of advocacy organizations which include the National Black Women’s Health Project, the National Council for Research on Women, and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. As Director of Spelman’s Women’s Center, she has also been involved with student activism around a broad range of social justice issues, including reproductive rights and violence against women. At Emory University’s Institute for Women’s Studies and Spelman College, she teaches women’s studies courses that center feminist theory and global Black Feminisms.
A conversation with Religious Studies faculty members and undergraduate students.
REL faculty members: Dr. Amy DeRogatis, Dr. Mohammad Khalil, Dr. David Stowe, and Dr. Morgan Shipley
Friday, October 4th, 12:00pm, A306 Wells Hall
Please save the date for the fall Creative Writing Faculty reading, featuring alum Kate Birdsall, Hannah Ensor, and Teresa Milbrodt, to be held Monday, October 7, 7 pm, in the LookOut! Gallery (second floor Snyder-Phillips Hall). Join us in celebrating the work of these new colleagues. The event is free and open to the public.
The Department of English MUSE Scholars Program will host MUSE bowling night at Spare Time Entertainment Center. MUSE scholars, current graduate students, and faculty are welcome to join us on Friday, October 18th at 7:30pm.