Fall 2024
Monday, October 28, 1:00-2:15, Gambrell 245b
Dana Logan, (UNC-Greensboro), will visit campus, sponsored by Religious Studies and the History Center. Dr. Logan is a scholar of American religion and ritual who works on the history of evangelicalism, civil society in the nineteenth-century United States, and the experience of ritual in everyday life. She is the author of Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America.
Panel Discussion: Methodologies in the Study of Religion: from History and Religious Studies. Panel Participants: Dana Logan (UNC-Greensboro/Religious Studies), Matt Childs, Marko Geslani (USC, Religious Studies), moderated by Adam Schor
Tuesday, Oct. 29, 5:45-7:00, Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library
Dana Logan (UNC-Greensboro), will deliver a talk on "Baptist Discipline: Policing the Antebellum Southeast”
Thursday. November 14, 12:00-1:15, Gambrell 217
Work in Progress with Na Sil Hao (USC), “Threefold Benefits”: Mobilizing Dairy Farmers and Building Bovine Alliances in Cold War South Korea.”
Friday, November 15, 3:00-4:15, Gambrell 245B
Prof. John D. Miller (Longwood College) will discuss his recently published book, Honorable and Brilliant Labors: Orations of William Gilmore Sims
Wednesday, November 20, 5:00-6:30, Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library
Prof. Nicole Eustace (NYU), “A Forgotten Founding Document from 1722: The Great Treaty of Albany and Indigenous Theories of Justice” will be based on her Pulitzer-prize winning book, Covered with Night: The Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in America
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