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Past Events

Oct

22

Lecture

5x10 Event: “Discovering Disney: If You Can Think It, You Can Do It”

Location:
Whitaker 303
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with Prof. Jill PeterfesoA popular quote attributed to Walt Disney is “If you can dream it, you can do it.” Building on the nearly dozen Disney courses she has taught in the past decade, Jill Peterfeso argues that if students can think it, they can do it – meaning, if they can…

Oct

7

Oct

22

Lecture

Heathen: Religion and Race in American History

Location:
HST 101
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Americans used to believe that much of the world was populated by “heathens.”  What did that view of the world entail? And what are the continuing repercussions on American ideas about race as a “heathen inheritance”?

Oct

9

Lecture

Black Freedom & the Racialization of "Religious Excitement" in American Psychiatry

Location:
STEPS 101
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As the nineteenth century drew to a close, white American psychiatrists declared that mental illness among African Americans in the South had reached alarming proportions and argued that, in a notable percentage of these cases, “religious excitement” was the key precipitating…

Aug

31

Event

The Business of Bible - Benevolence: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves, by Prof. Jill Hicks-Keeton (University of Oklahoma)

Location:
Scheler Family Humanities Forum (Linderman 200)
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Abstract: The Bible is the Good Book. Everyone knows it—or at least that it commands such a reputation. Yet the Bible is not, as no book can be, a moral agent on its own. Bible interpreters work to make it so, through ongoing creative negotiations, rhetorical labor, and…