The lecture, titled “The Desire to Upload: Digital Immortality and the Transhumanist Push for Radical Life-Extension,” will be given by Seth Villegas on September 29 at 7:00 pm in Sussman Theater (Olmsted Center, Drake University). Seth Villegas is a PhD candidate at Boston University, specializing in the dialogue between religion and science. His research focuses on …
Drake University’s Comparison Project hosts two exhibitions on art and ineffability during the month of November with opening events on Friday, November 7. The opening events feature poetic and musical performances of ineffability from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Weeks Gallery, a gallery talk on contemporary abstract painting as a form of wordless communication at …
Translating the Ineffable: How Hunters Hear and Talk to the Dead in Côte d’Ivoire Lecture by Joseph Hellweg, Associate Professor of Religion, Florida State University Thursday, March 27, 7:00 p.m., Cowles Library Reading Room In the northwestern, Muslim area of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), hunters communicate with a forest spirit, Manimory, and the spirits of …
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West African Dance Workshop with Diadié Bathily, Dancer, Caph Guéï, Drummer and introduction and interpretation by Joseph Hellweg Friday, March 28, 12:15–1:45 p.m. Studio 55 Theater, Harmon Fine Arts Center The workshop will cover the study of West African dance and the accompanying music. Special emphasis will be placed on the dance, drumming, culture, language and arts …
Tuesday, May 7, 7:00 p.m., Olin 101 The Comparison Project 2012-2013 explored a range of religious explanations of and responses to suffering through a variety of public programing—everything from lectures on the Holocaust and the Lakota Ghost Dance, to community and Drake inter-faith dialogues, to creative non-fiction readings by …
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Thursday, April 4 at 7:00 p.m., Olin 101 Steven T. Katz is Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies and Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Boston University. He has also taught at Dartmouth College, Cornell University, and at numerous other universities both in the US and abroad. In addition, Dr. Katz …
