Monday April 4, 2016 The Program in Scripture and the Arts is proud to present the third and final speaker in its 2015-2016 speaker series, Gary Vikan speaking on “The Sacred Art of Ethiopia.” Professor Vikan, the Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor at Carleton College, was also the director of the Walters Art Museum for 18 years […]
Thursday, March 24, 2016 The Program in Scripture and the Arts is proud to present the second speaker in its 2015-2016 speaker series, Caroline Walker Bynum, from the Institute for Advanced Study. Professor Bynum is a preeminent scholar in the field of Medieval Christian Studies, and her work has been instrumental in introducing the concept of gender into the […]
The Program in Scripture and the Arts is proud to present the first speaker in its 2015-2016 speaker series, Marcus Milwright, from the University of Victoria Department of Art History and Visual Studies. Professor Milwright is an authority on the art and architecture of the Islamic Middle East, cross-cultural interaction in the Medieval and early […]
On November 5, 2013, the Program in Scripture and the Arts will be hosting the Alash Ensemble, internationally acclaimed masters of Tuvan throat singing. Hailing from the Tuva Republic in Siberia Russia, the ensemble will hold a workshop in which students will learn traditional forms and techniques of Tuvan throat singing. In the evening, there […]
A Lecture by Professor David Shulman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Many languages claim to be God’s most intimate and natural medium of communication. In southern India this theme involves the relations between Sanskrit and Tamil, two languages that are often seen as hostile entities by Tamil nationalists. However, in pre-modern south India they were […]
A Lecture by Professor Nicholas Watson, Harvard University It is often claimed that medieval Christian Europe had no vernacular Bibles, which were a triumphant invention of sixteenth-century Protestantism, aided by the rise of print. One way this is wrong is in its narrow view of what counts as a Bible. Between the twelfth and fourteenth […]
A Lecture by Professor Emily Hudson This talk offers a rereading of a central text in the study of Hinduism, the Ramayana, by interrogating its central protagonist’s status as a moral paragon. Location: Judaic Studies Boardroom, Rm 201, 147 Bay State Road Reception immediately following Time/Date: March 20, 2012, 5:00pm Open to General Public Admission […]
A lecture by Professor Elizabeth Castelli, Professor and Chair of the Religion Department at Barnard College. Not long before his untimely death in the mid-1970s and following on his masterpiece “The Gospel According to St. Matthew”, Italian Marxist cultural worker and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote a script for a film about Saint Paul that […]
A lecture by Professor Emine Fetvaci, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture at BU A seventeeth-century album made for the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I brings together Persian mystical poetry, Ottoman paintings, and Netherlandish prints with Christian and mythological subject matter. The talk will examine the intersection of the sacred and the secular […]
A lecture by Professor Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago’s Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, with a response from Professor David Frankfurter, Aurelio Chair, BU Department of Religion. Join us for a renowned expert’s view of the history of Hindu oral and written texts from antiquity to the present Internet Age, […]