2012

January

• January 31, 2012 at 3:30 in the Jewish Studies Building’s Arnold Hall.  The Department will be hosting Professor June McDaniel’s sabbatical lecture titled “Why Many Gods Become One God:  Indonesia’s Strategy For Avoiding Jihad.”

2011

November

• November 29th at 3:15 the Department of Religious Studies will be hosting Dr. Donald Lopez Jr., in the Jewish Studies Building’s Arnold Hall.  Lecture topic is “Buddhism & Science:  A Minority Report.” 
• November 1st  at 3:15 the Department of Religious Studies will be hosting Professor John Huddlestun’s sabbatical lecture in the Levin Library within the Jewish Studies Center.  Lecture topic is “Blood on the Water:  Contextualizing the First Biblical Plague.” 

October

• October 4th at 3:30 the Department of Religious Studies will be hosting an Open House in their lounge for interested students to come and meet our faculty and staff.  Please call at 843-953-0895 to rsvp or just show up.  Oh, and come hungry.
• October 13th at 3:30 the Department of Religious Studies will be hosing guest lecturer Livia Kohn in the Jewish Studies Building’s Arnold Hall.   Livia Kohn is a Professor Emerita of Daoist Studies at Boston University. She has written and edited over twenty-five books, as well as numerous articles and reviews.  Lecture topic is “Daoist Sexual Cultivation.”  All are welcome to attend and there is no charge.
• October 15th at 4:00 at the Gage Hall on Archdale Street, June McDaniel will be giving a lecture for the Charleston Jung Society titled “Light and Dark Archetypes of the Feminine:  Jungian Psychology and Kundalini Yoga.”  Tickets are $15 for students, $10 for members, and $20 for guests.
• October 17th and 18th is Fall Break.
• October 19th at 12:15, Professor John Huddlestun will be hostin a rown bag series titled “A Duped Patriarch, an Unlucky King, and a Conflicted Diviner:  Reading Biblical Stories in Mulitple Dimensions” and it is located in the Jewish Studies Center’s Arnold Hall.

September

• September 21st at 12:15, Professor John Huddleston will be hosting a brown bag series titled “Genesis 38- The Tactics of a Clever Tamar, the Humiliation of a Duped Judah” and it is located in the Jewish Studies Center’s Arnold Hall.
• September 22cd at 6:00, Professor Louise Doire and the Religious Studies Club will be hosting a viewing of “First Person Singular” in honor of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel’s lecture on Sunday September 25th.
• September 23rd at 3:00, Professor Louise Doire will be giving a lecture titled “Religion:  Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?”  at the Rivers Residence Hall also known as the Hawkins Learning Center in the Buist Residence Hall.