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April 2014
News and Events
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Contents
01) April 1 | Faculty Project Development Groups in Religion | Applications Due
02) April 8 - 10 | Talmudic Transgressions: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin
03) April 15 | Who Owns Uncle Tom’s Cabin? On Religion, Property, and Personhood | Peter Schneck
04) April 17 | Berkeley Public Forum on Religion | Holy Minded: Evangelicals and Intellectual Life | Molly Worthen
05) April 18 | Berkeley Public Forum on Religion | The Bible Alone: The Sola Scriptura Problem in the Study of American Evangelicalism | Workshop with Molly Worthen and David Hollinger
06) April 24-25 | Religion in California Symposium | California American Studies Association
07) Graduate Student Event Grants in Religion | Applications Due May 1
All events free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
For more information, visit bcsr.berkeley.edu.
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01) April 1 | Faculty Project Development Groups in Religion | Applications Due
The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion (BCSR) is sponsoring 1 to 2 Project Development Groups (PDG) in the Study of Religion for faculty in academic year 2014-15. BCSR PDGs provide an opportunity for small, collaborative faculty groups to work on larger-scale projects related to the study of religion. The PDG program can contribute $2,500 in research funds to each participating faculty member (from 2 to 5 participants), as well as up to $7,500 for incidentals.
Completed applications are due Tuesday, April 1 at 4 pm.
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02) April 8 - 10 | Talmudic Transgressions: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin
Talmudic Transgressions: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin
Tuesday, April 8 through Thursday, April 10
Sessions held at UC Berkeley Law School and the Graduate Theological Union
Talmudic Transgressions is a conference that celebrates Daniel Boyarin's work by bringing together an international group of scholars to reflect and share their work on some of the topics that have been central to his pioneering contributions to scholarship – the intimate relation between Judaism and Christianity, the creative intertextuality of Midrash, the evasive form of the Talmud, the serious playfulness of Agaddah, and the potent possibilities of Diaspora.
Co-presented by the Berkeley Institute of Jewish Law and Israeli Studies, the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University, the Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union, the Department of Rhetoric, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, and the College of Letters and Science, Arts & Humanities Division.
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03) April 15 | Who Owns Uncle Tom’s Cabin? On Religion, Property, and Personhood | Peter Schneck
Who Owns Uncle Tom's Cabin? On Religion, Property, and Personhood
Peter Schneck, Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Tuesday, April 15, 5-7 pm
Doug Adams Gallery
1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley
Respondents: Leti Volpp, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley, and Johannes Voelz, Associate Professor of American Studies, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany.
This talk examines the religious and legal imaginaries underpinning Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Stowe's concept of property and personhood was arguably shaped by Protestant notions of (legal, cultural) propriety. Through an approach informed by G. W. F. Hegel's insights on religion, property and the dialectics of master-slave, this lecture attempts a provocative re-reading of Stowe's iconic anti-slavery text, particularly in light of its entanglement in the conflicts surrounding notions of literary and cultural property in 19th-century America.
Peter Schneck has published widely on American literature, visual and legal culture, including the recent Rhetoric and Evidence: Legal Conflict and Literary Representation in U.S American Culture. As the former president of the German Association for American Studies, he has lectured throughout Europe and the United States on topics that range from multiculturalism and indigenous literatures in Canada, to Don DeLillo and postmodern spirituality, to theories of visual culture and mediatization. He is also co-editor of Philologie im Netz, one of Germany’s oldest online journals for humanities scholarship.
Co-presented by the Center for Arts, Religion, and Education (GTU) and the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion.
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04) April 17 | Berkeley Public Forum on Religion | Holy Minded: Evangelicals and Intellectual Life | Molly Worthen
 Holy Minded: American Evangelicals and Intellectual Life
Molly Worthen, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Thursday, April 17, 5-7 pm
3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Evangelicals have an authority problem. Torn between the demands of dogma, reason, and spiritual experience ever since the origins of their movement in the Reformation, evangelicals struggle -- more than most people -- to reconcile competing sources of intellectual authority at once. This ongoing crisis has produced a culture that observers and believers alike have called anti-intellectual. Yet evangelical defenders insist that their approach to education and critical inquiry is no more biased or blinkered than that of secular thinkers; if anything, it is more honest. An examination of how 20th-century American evangelicals have navigated the straits between religious and secular authorities in the realms of science, history, and worship suggests that this crisis is both evangelicals’ greatest bane and an abiding source of strength. (Worthen)
Molly Worthen is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her most recent book, Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism (Oxford, 2013) examines American evangelical intellectual life since 1945. She writes about religion and politics for the New York Times, Slate, and other publications.
Co-presented by the History Department’s New Voices in American History series.
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05) April 18 | Berkeley Public Forum on Religion | The Bible Alone: The Sola Scriptura Problem in the Study of American Evangelicalism | Workshop with Molly Worthen and David Hollinger
The Bible Alone: The Sola Scriptura Problem in the Study of American Evangelicalism
Molly Worthen, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Friday, April 18, 10 am -12 pm
3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Discussant: David Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley
All evangelicals say that their primary -- if not sole -- source of religious authority is the Bible. Yet their inability to agree on what, precisely, the Bible means tells us that evangelical engagement with this text is not uniform or simple. A host of mediating influences and authorities intervene: scriptura is never, truly, sola. In recent years, scholars of American evangelicalism have focused on this question of what is really happening when their subjects say that they simply "believe the Bible" (Worthen)
Molly Worthen is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her most recent book, Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism (Oxford, 2013) examines American evangelical intellectual life since 1945. She writes about religion and politics for the New York Times, Slate, and other publications.
Co-presented by the History Department’s New Voices in American History series.
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06) April 24-25 | Religion in California Symposium | Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program, UC Berkeley
Religion in California
Thursday, April 24, 2-8 pm
Graduate Theological Union
2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley
Friday, April 25, 10 am – 9 pm
Various locations, UC Berkeley
Religion in California is a two-day symposium on theology in the state of California including panels on religion and immigration, politics and social movements, and theology and culture. It features a keynote discussion with Dr. Matthew Avery Sutton (author of Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America), Dr. Louis A. Lorentzen (co-editor of On the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana) and Rev. Dr. Joy Moore (Associate Dean of African American Church Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary.)
Co-presented by the California American Studies Association (CASA) with the Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program (RPGP), the Theological Engagement with California’s Culture Project (TECC), the Graduate Theological Union (GTU), and the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion (BCSR).
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07) Graduate Student Event Grants in Religion | Applications Due May 1
The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion (BCSR) announces a program of small grants to support UC Berkeley graduate student events on topics in religion. These grants provide partial funding and range from $250-$500 for a single event, and up to $1,000 for a conference. Applications are accepted in Spring and Fall. Fall 2014 requests are due Thursday, May 1 at 4pm.
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