faculty news
What if the Tower of Babel story in the Bible is not really about the origins of languages?What if it鈥檚 also not about a tower and had nothing originally to do with Babylon? Podcast with Dr.Boyd discussing his new book 鈥婭n
Brian Catlos was selected as Faculty Awardee for his work on Mediterranean Studies and with the 麻豆免费版下载Mediterranean Studies Group (since 2011) and the Mediterranean Seminar, both of which he founded and directs (the latter with Sharon Kinoshita of UCSC
Against the background of long-standing narratives in which Twelver Shi鈥榠sm is viewed as fundamentally authoritarian, this talk builds upon recent scholarship in the fields of Religious Studies and Anthropology to argue that Twelver Shi鈥榠sm is
Loriliai Biernacki鈥檚 The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta鈥檚 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
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
Prof. Catlos鈥檚 book Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (Basic Books: 2018) has just been signed by Kronik publishing in Istanbul, which will produce a Turkish translation in 2024. The book has already been translated into Spanish,
Dr. Loriliai Biernacki gave a paper for the Keynote Interdisciplinary Panel for the International Society for Contemplative Studies held February 1-5. Her paper 鈥淔irst-Person Ontologies鈥 addressed using models of ontological subjectivity as a way of
As part of their work on the DEI submcommittee of the Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate Aun Hasan Ali, assistant professor of religious studies, and Stephanie Su, assistant professor of art history, have been awarded a $33,500 grant from the
Professor Catlos was interviewed on the New Books Network, regarding his new text book and source anthology, The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 and Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650-1650 on the
