This year's deadline for applications for the Boyd Memorial Fellowship is February 20, 2017. The Boyd Fellowship is an $11,000 award given annually to a major or double-major in Religious Studies who plans to pursue either graduate or professional education in religion. For more information, see here.

Lecture by J. Derrick Lemons, Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Georgia For over a decade, scholars have called for more research about the spiritual lives of American millennials, the age cohort born between the 1980s and early 2000s. Scholars are especially interested in the religious-to-spiritual shift of American millennials, which is characterized by highly […]

The 14th Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference Affect In Dissent: Past and Present March 4-5, 2017 Muslims across the globe – from the Middle East, North America, South Asia, and beyond – have been in constant engagement with the changing material and social conditions of human experience. The conference will explore the multiple ways […]

Dr. Joel Baden, professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School, will be delivering a public lecture titled “Infertility and the Hebrew Bible: Perspectives and Proposals” at Duke Divinity School (Westbrook Building 0016) on Monday, March 6, at 5:15pm. The event is sponsored by Duke Divinity School, the Duke Department of Religious Studies, UNC's Department […]

Lecture by Dr. María Tausiet "Holy Children: Accusing Jews of Murder in Early Modern Spain" One of the most terrible accusations ever directed at any community is that of "blood libel"--the accusation that Jews murdered Christian children and used their bodies in religious rites. This mythical allegation, with origins in the Middle Ages, was particularly […]

Lecture by Anne Hansen Professor of Religious Studies and Southeast Asian History University of Wisconsin-Madison Buddhist prophecies about the end of our time and the dawning of a new era tied to the enlightenment of the fifth buddha in our kalpa or “epoch” have circulated widely across the Buddhist world for nearly two millennia. In […]

The Christianity in Antiquity Reading Group presents-- A lecture by Dr. Margaret Mitchell, Shailer Mathews Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, the University of Chicago Divinity School: "What's an Ancient Interpreter to Do with 'Problem Texts' in the Writings of Paul?" Co-sponsored by CLAS, MEMS, and the UNC and Duke Departments of Religious […]

The Graduate Romance Association of the Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill would like to welcome professors, students, and independent scholars to the website for the Carolina Conference for Romance Studies. Over the past twenty-two years, our conference has grown tremendously and is now one of the largest […]

Lecture by Dr. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Professor, Emory University Framed by recent interest in the agency of materiality, this talk analyzes, through a performative-ethnographic lens, possibilities created and questions raised by the cement images of Ravan, the antagonist of the Ramayana epic tradition, found throughout the central plains of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. […]

A lecture by Dr. Rosemary Corbett: "Making Moderate Islam: On Sufism, Service, and the 'Ground Zero Mosque' Controversy' Sponsored by: UNC Student Congress, the Department of Religious Studies, the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, the Department of Sociology, and the UNC Cultural Studies Program For the event flyer, […]