National Geographic Channel and Revelations Entertainment Invite you and a guest to the World Premiere Screening of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman

JODI MAGNESS, a Kenan Distinguished Professor at UNC, has been directing excavations in the ancient village of Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee since 2011. The excavations have brought to light the remains of a monumental Late Roman (fifth century) synagogue building paved with stunning and unique mosaics, including depictions of the biblical hero Samson. In this slide-illustrated lecture, […]

Justin Sands grew up in small-town Western North Carolina, and he graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2005 with a major in Religious Studies. After UNC, Sands obtained an M.A. at Villanova University, and then he received a Ph.D. from the University of Leuven in Belgium. He’s now living and working in an academic position in […]

(Un)Holy Spies: Religion and the American Espionage in World War II By Matthew Sutton, Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at Washington State University

2017 Department of Religious Studies Awards Ceremony Including: Undergraduate Student Awards Graduate Student Awards Faculty Achievement Recognitions *Refreshments will be served For more information, email quick@unc.edu or call 919-962-5667

All students are invited to our undergraduate Course Fair on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 11:30am-1:00pm (Carolina Hall 124), where flyers for all our Spring 2018 courses (see below) will be available to browse around the room, and professors representing the different subfields in our department will be present to speak with students about specific courses. Our […]

The 15th Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Middle East and Islamic Studies Conference “Map, Territory,​ and​ Boundary​” The conference  will take place February 9-10, 2018 at Sanford Rubenstein Hall, 200 at Duke University. Geography and territoriality are not only the subjects of ongoing contestation, but also compelling paradigms to engage with broader interrelated questions pertaining to the modern makeup of […]

Prof. Barbara Ambros will be taking part in the following documentary film viewing, which is also co-sponsored by our department and moderated by Ph.D. candidate, Joanna Smith. Alone Again in Fukushima  A documentary screening and conversation This spring will mark the tenth anniversary of the triple disaster that on March 11, 2011, brought an earthquake, […]