The Religion and Culture Workshop

The Religion and Culture Workshop is a weekly interdisciplinary seminar for the discussion of work in progress by CSR dissertation fellows and visiting scholars. The goal of the workshop is to foster a writers’ group in which participants present work-in-progress (usually related to a chapter of their dissertation or book project) and receive constructive criticism. We also aim to encourage intellectual interchange with specialists outside one’s normal discipline or subfield.  Papers are prepared and distributed in advance of each week’s meeting. The seminar normally meets on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:20 in the Seminar Room at 5 Ivy Lane.

Led by Professor Stephen F. Teiser (Department of Religion), the Religion and Culture Workshop brings together researchers working in a variety of disciplines, including history, anthropology, literature, philosophy, ethics, art, and area studies. A schedule of presenters and respondents follows:

Sept. 17           Organizational Meeting

Sept. 24           David Decosimo, The Banality of Comparison
                        Respondent: Kathryn Lofton

Oct. 3*            Laura Leon-Llerena, Extirpation and Writing: Denouncing Idolatry in Early Seventeenth-century Peru
                        Respondent: Jack Tannous

Oct. 8              Intisar Rabb, Islamic Law and Lenity:  Rules of Structure or Public Values?
                        Respondent: Aviva Rothman

Oct. 15            Moulie Vidas, The Function and Development of Authorship in the Talmud
                        Respondent: Rebecca Harmon

Oct. 22            Daniel J. Hanna, Poetry in the Early French Carmel: The Tradition of Teresa of Avila
                        Respondent: Mairaj Syed

Fall Break

Nov. 5             Kathryn Lofton, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
                        Respondent: Moulie Vidas

Nov. 12           Rebecca Harmon, Word-Painting (as) Evidence
                        Respondent: Intisar Rabb

Nov. 19           Aviva Rothman, A Community of Believers: Johannes Kepler & Religious Community in 17th c. Europe.
                        Respondent: David Decosimo

Nov. 26           No meeting

Dec. 3             Jack Tannous, Between Hunayn and Sergios: On the History of Qenneshre
                        Respondent: Daniel J. Hanna

Dec. 10           Mairaj Syed, The Problem of Coercion in the Formative Period of Islamic Law
                        Respondent: Laura Leon-Llerena

*All meetings are on Wednesdays from 12:00 noon until 1:20 pm in the Center for the Study of Religion, 5 Ivy Lane, Seminar Room, except Oct. 3, which meets on Friday from noon until 1:20 in the Department of Religion, 1879 Hall, Room 137.

To see prior years' workshop schedules, click here.

Questions? Contact Stephen F. Teiser at sfteiser@princeton.edu, or 609 258-4490.

To pre-circulate your paper, send it to the appropriae listserv or contact Barbara Bermel at bbermel@Princeton.edu or 609 258-6953.