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Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion

Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion, hosted by Northeastern University, is designed to address a gap between disciplinary expertise and effective communication strategies. Applications are now open for our final cohort of online public scholarship training for 12 scholars focused on race, justice, and religion, funded by the Henry R. Luce Foundation. The training will run from May through July 2024, with 8 training calls scheduled for Thursday afternoons, 3-4pm ET Read More
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Event - Towards a Counterhistory of the Western Canon | The “Original Fragments” of the Bible and Homer

Today, powerful forces push us to either idolize or neglect now-canonical works like Homer and the Bible, seeing them as either evidence of a unique Western genius or as exhausted and overplayed “greatest hits.” But before they were idols, worshipped or fallen, ancient Mediterranean cultural monuments were something quite different. This workshop will explore how the discoveries of criticism let us encounter them freshly, as if for the first time. Read More
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Graduate Student Aron Tillema

Aron Tillema received a Dean's Fellowship to support completion of his dissertation, Upside-Down Prophecy: Reflexivity and the Book of Jonah.
Aron Tillema successfully defended his dissertation in summer 2023. Read More
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Graduate Student Benjamin Fisher wins fellowship

Benjamin Fisher received the Margrit Mondavi Graduate Research Fellowship for Summer 2023. This funding will support work on his dissertation, Judaism or Barbarism: The Critique of Myth in German-Jewish Thought, and the preparation of an article manuscript on 19th century linguistic psychologist Heymann Steinthal and his student, Neo-Kantian philosopher, Hermann Cohen. Read More