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February 2015
News and Events
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Contents
01) February 5 | Blueprint for a Modern Faith: 20th-C Experiments in Bay Area Religious Architecture | William Littmann
02) February 10 | “Pragmatism…she widens the field of search for God” | Joan Richardson
03) Announcing Graduate Student Event Grant Recipients
04) March 2 | Upcoming Deadline for Graduate Student Summer Research Grants in Religion
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, visit bcsr.berkeley.edu.
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01) February 5 | Blueprint for a Modern Faith: 20th-C Experiments in Bay Area Religious Architecture | William Littmann
Berkeley Seminars in Art and Religion
Blueprint for a Modern Faith: 20th-C Experiments in Bay Area Religious Architecture
William Littmann, Senior Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Visual Studies, California College of the Arts
Thursday, February 5, 5-7pm
370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
 For more than a century, Bay Area architects have created some of the nation’s most innovative religious architecture, ranging from the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Berkeley by Bernard Maybeck to the award-winning Congregation Beth Sholom Synagogue in San Francisco designed by Stanley Saitowitz in 2009. This talk explores the history of experimental and radical religious architecture in Northern California, with a special focus on design after the Second World War, as architects responded to changes in liturgical practices in the Roman Catholic Church after Vatican II as well as the progressive ideals of Protestant and Jewish congregations in the region. It also explores the contribution of 1960s countercultural groups that further pushed the boundaries of religious architecture, often using forms borrowed from Native American and Buddhist religious traditions. (Littmann)
The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco, Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi (architects), 1965. Credit: William Littman, 2014.
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02) February 10 | “Pragmatism…she widens the field of search for God” | Joan Richardson
“Pragmatism…she widens the field of search for God”
 Joan Richardson, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and American Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Tuesday, February 10, 5-7 pm
370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
William James once described Pragmatism as continuing the work of the Protestant Reformation, admitting all the possibilities of belief belonging to a pluralistic universe. In Pragmatism (1907), James writes; “We do not yet know which type of religion is going to work best in the long run. The various overbeliefs of men, the several faith-ventures, are in fact what is needed to bring the evidence in.” This religious dimension of Pragmatism, which has long been persistently ignored/repressed, will be the subject of Joan Richardson’s presentation. (Richardson)
Co-presented with the Center for the Arts, Religion and Education (CARE).
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03) Announcing Graduate Student Event Grant Recipients
BCSR’s Graduate Student Event Grants support innovative proposals for graduate student-led lectures, seminars, and conferences for public and campus audiences. BCSR has awarded three $500 grants in support of the following,
Deus Sive Veruft: Schelling’s Transformation of Spinoza’s God
Joseph Albernaz (English)
Biblical Lives: The Hebrew Bible and the Construction of Jewish Life
Daniel Fisher (Department of Near Eastern Studies)
Classification, Instrumentation, Technique: Exploring the Thin Line Between Religion and Science
Ashwak Hauter (Anthropology) and William Stafford (Anthropology)
UC Berkeley graduate students organizing events for Fall 2015 are invited to apply by the next application deadline of Thursday, April 30 (4 pm). Awards range from $250 to $500 for a lecture, and up to $1000 for a conference. Contact info.bcsr@berkeley.edu for more information.
Past Recipients
2014-15
Between the Visible and the Invisible: Cosmology, Ritual, and Hermeneutics in Historical and Contemporary Chinese Worlds
Jesse Chapman (East Asian Languages and Cultures) and Yueni Zhong (Art History)
2013-14
Leaps of Faith – Figurations of Belief in Literature and Critical Thought
Simone Stirner (Comparative Literature)
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4) March 2 | Upcoming Deadline for Graduate Student Summer Research Grants in Religion
The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion is offering five to ten summer research grants in the amount of $5000 each for advanced graduate students working on topics in the study of religion, broadly construed. Applications are welcome from all UC Berkeley Ph.D. students who have advanced to candidacy, with preference given to those who are close to completion of their dissertations. Grants are awarded for summer research travel and related expenses only. For more information, including application instructions, visit the BCSR website.
Past Recipients:
Lauren Bausch (South and Southeast Asian Studies), Erik Born (German), Graham Hill (Sociology), Nicholas Junkerman (English), Jean-Michel Landry (Anthropology), Christopher Mead (English), Samuel Robinson (History), Tehila Sasson (History), Kris Trujillo (Rhetoric)
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