Questions? Call (540) 654-1023

UPCOMING LECTURES

The 2012 Jefferson Lecture on the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

 “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?”

Professor John Fea, Department of History,  Messiah College

January 26, 2012   7:30 PM

Dodd Auditorium

Free and Open to the Public

Previous Events 2011-2012:

Dr. Sethuraman Suresh: “Ancient Roman Contacts with South and South East Asia”

Wed. Sept. 7, 2011

Lee Hall 412, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg Campus. By Dr. Sethuraman Suresh, Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC, and author of numerous scholarly articles on Roman finds in India and S/SE Asia. Reception to follow lecture. Part of the “When Rome Faced East” lecture series. 7 pm. Free. 540/654-1023.

Dr. Sethuraman Suresh: “Roman Coin Finds in India and Sri Lanka”

Thurs. Sept. 8, 2011

Lee Hall 411, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg Campus. By Dr. Sethuraman Suresh, Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC, and author of numerous scholarly articles on Roman finds in India and S/SE Asia. Reception to follow lecture. Part of the “When Rome Faced East” lecture series. 7 pm. Free. 540/654-1023.

Dr. Steven Sidebotham: “The Site of Berenike in Roman Egypt and its Maritime Trade Connections with the East”

Thurs. Sept. 22, 2011

Lee Hall 411, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg Campus. By Dr. Steven Sidebotham, Professor of History, University of Delaware, excavator of Berenike, and author of “Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route” Reception to follow lecture. Part of the “When Rome Faced East” lecture series. 7 pm. Free. 540/654-1023.

Dr. Rose Mary Sheldon: “Rome vs. Parthia: The Cold War that Never Was”

Thurs. Oct. 27, 2011

Lee Hall 411, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg Campus. By Dr. Rose Mary Sheldon, Professor of History, Virginia Military Institute, expert on Rome’s interactions with ancient Iran and Iraq(Parthia), and author of “Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods but Verify” and “Rome’s Wars in Parthia: Blood in the Sand.” Reception to follow lecture. Part of the “When Rome Faced East” lecture series. 7 pm. Free. 540/654-1023.

RECENT LECTURES:

For the youtube video of the following event, please clich here.

Thomas Jefferson’s Statute of Virginia

for Religious Freedom

A Christian – Muslim conversation on Jefferson’s statute

Martin E. Marty,

Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity, University of Chicago

&

Seyyed Hossein Nasr,

Professor of Islamic Studies, The George Washington University

Friday, January 21, 2011, at 7:30 pm Dodd Auditorium, George Washington Hall

Free and Open to the Public

The Dept. of Classics, Philosophy, & Religion and

The Dept. of History & American Studies

Present a special guest lecture

DR. GAIUS STERN

University of California, Berkeley

“PRISONERS OF WAR

IN THE ROMAN WORLD, 753 BC – AD 10”

Wed. October 27th, 4:30-5:30 pm

Trinkle 204

Pre-talk reception at 4 pm.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Questions?  Call 654-1023.

Funding provided by the Campus Academic Resources Committee

Respectable Activism or Dangerous Fringe?

An Interdisciplinary Conference on

Radical Environmental Activism

All sessions will be held in Trinkle Hall 204 on the campus of University of Mary Washington; Friday and Saturday, April 16 & 17

Keynote Speaker: Rik Scarce of Skidmore College

Friday Afternoon

3:30-4:20  Undergraduates Meet Keynote Speaker, Rik Scarce (Skidmore College): an informal conversation reserved for Mary Washington and other undergraduates.

4:00-4:30  Registration & Coffee

4:30-5:50  Session 1  Undergraduate Papers

1. William Bennett (University of Mary Washington)  Connecting Animal and Civil Rights Activism to the Radical Environmentalism Movement
2. Leslie Shafer (University of Mary Washington)  The Youth Climate Movement
3. Cassie Peters (University of Mary Washington)  Dave Foreman v. Henry Spira

6:00-7:00  Session 2  Activist Panel and Discussion

1. Katherine McEachern (Virginia Campus Organizer for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network)
2. John Wade (Former Earth Liberation Front member)
3. John C. Chelen (President of Hampshire Research Institute)

7:30  Welcome Dinner

Saturday Morning

9:00-9:30:  Coffee in Trinkle Hall

9:30-10:05  Session 3

Richard Kahn, Ph.D.  (University of North Dakota) A Marcusian Ecopedagogy: A Theory and Defense of Radical Ecopolitics *Teleconferenced

10:15-10:50  Session 4

Brian Campbell (Emory University) Edward Abbey, Julia Butterfly Hill, and the Unabomber: Radical Environmentalism’s Romance with Solitude and Primitivism

11:00-11:35  Session 5

James Sage, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) Science and Values: Holism and Radical Environmental Activism

11:35-1:00  Lunch

Saturday Afternoon

1:00-2:20  Keynote Talk: Rik Scarce (Skidmore College) Everything I’ve Learned about Social Movements, I Learned from the Radical Environmental Movement

2:20-2:40  Break

2:40-3:15  Session 6

Paul Joosse (University of Alberta)  Elves, Environmentalism, and ‘Eco-Terror’: Leaderless Resistance and Media Coverage of the Earth Liberation Front

3:25-4:00  Session 7

Chaone Mallory (Villanova University)   Species Trouble: Radical Forest Activism, Gender Politics, and the Question of the Human

4:10-4:45  Session 8

Jason Matzke (University of Mary Washington)  Drawing a Substantive Line between Monkey Wrenching and Ec
o-Sabotage

(This conference is free and open to the public)

Sponsored by: Classics, Philosophy, & Religion, Campus Academic Resources Committee, Leidecker Center for Asian Studies, Earth and Environmental Science, Sociology and Anthropology, History and American Studies

Contact: Jason Matzke at jmatzke@umw.edu or Melanie Szulczewski at mszulcze@umw.edu

Public Lecture

Barbara Tsakirgis (Assoc. Prof. of Classics and Art History, Vanderbilt) “Renewing, Reusing, and Recycling in the Ancient Greek Household”

Thursday April 8, 2010

7:30 pm

Trinkle 204

Reception following

Funded by the Dept. of Classics, Philosophy, & Religion; the Dept. of Historic Preservation; Eta Sigma Phi; and the Campus Academic Resources Committee.

Seventh Annual Asian Film Festival 2010 Program

The Leidecker Center for Asian Studies

February 4, 11, 18 and 25, 2010 on UMW Campus

All films shown in Trinkle 204 & followed by a reception with Indian fare.

Shatranj Ke Khilari/ Urdu/ Hindi and English with subtitles, 129 minutes; Shown Thurs. 2/4 Trinkle 204 at 6pm

Chak De India/ Hindi with subtitles, 153 minutes; Shown Thurs. 2/11 Trinkle 204 at 6pm

Ram Ke Naam/ Hindi and English with subtitles, 75 minutes; Shown Thurs. 2/18 Trinkle 204 at 6pm

Monsoon Wedding/ Hindi and English with subtitles, 114 minutes; Shown Thurs. 2/25 Trinkle 204 at 6pm

movie descriptions here (pdf)

Thomas Jefferson’s Statute of Virginia

for Religious Freedom

A Lecture by

Robert Pennock, Michigan State University

“Protecting Science and Religious Freedom: Why Intelligent

Design Creationism Flunks Out”

January 21, 2010, at 7:30 pm Dodd Auditorium, George Washington Hall

Free and Open to the Public

(Robert Pennock)

Thank you to all who joined us in celebration of

The 30th Anniversary of The Department of

Classics, Philosophy, & Religion!

On October 2, 2009, alumni, former and current faculty, and family and friends celebrated our thirtieth year as a department. The gala was held in the Faculty Dining Room of Seacobeck Dining Hall. Former chair and charter member of the department, Professor Elizabeth Clark (Duke University), gave commemorative remarks which was followed by dinner, conversation, and dancing!

Find our group UMW/MWC CPR Majors and Grads on Facebook.

The CPR faculty following UMW’s 2009 Commencement ceremony

Congratulations to Liane Houghtalin

who received the

2008 Award for Excellence in College Teaching

from the
Classical Association of the Middle West and South

More

Call for Papers

Classics, Philosophy, & Religion will host a two-day interdisciplinary conference on radical environmental activism, April 16-17, 2010. To view the call for papers, click here:

Radical Environmentalism: Respectable Activism or Dangerous Fringe?

Keynote Speaker: Rik Scarce, Skidmore College

CPRD 299  Mysterium Humanum Studies: Justice

Tuesdays  7 PM  Trinkle 204

For more information, contact Dr. Craig Vasey 654-1342

8  Sept     Liane Houghtalin (Classics):  The Image of Justice:  Representations of the Figure Justice in Western Art and Literature.

15 Sept     Joe Romero (Classics): Roman Justice:  Lex Duodecim Tabularum (The Twelve Tables)

22 Sept     Angela Gosetti-Murrayjohn (Classics):  Aeschylean Justice: The Trial of Orestes

29 Sept     LaBravia Jenkins (Commonwealth Attorney for Fredericksburg) and Kent Willis (Executive Director of the ACLU of VA):  Reflections from Two Perspectives within the Justice Profession.

6  Oct     Mary Beth Mathews (Religion):   A Severe Justice: Calvin and Double Predestination.

20 Oct     Nina  Mikhalevsky (Philosophy):  Thoreau’s  “Resistance to Civil Government”

27 Oct     David Cain (Religion):  When Mercy Seasons Justice

3 Nov     David Ambuel (Philosophy):  Is Injustice a Virtue? Plato and King

10 Nov     John L. Johnson (Alpha Phi Alpha):  The NAACP White Paper 2009

17 Nov     Jason Matzke (Philosophy):   Environmental Justice

24 Nov     Jim Goehring (Religion):   Religious Piety, Social Justice, and the Reign of God: Biblical Perspectives.

1 Dec     Charles Mills (Philosophy, Northwestern University): The Racial Contract and “White Ignorance”

Past Events

“Pompeii, Mt. Vesuvius, and the Grand Tour”

Dr. Carol Mattusch (George Mason University, Mathy Professor of Art History)

Tues. March 24th, from 6 to 7 pm in Monroe 104. A reception with refreshments will follow the presentation. The lecture and the reception are free and open to the public.

Events Sponsored by the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies

Yogaville of Virginia
1.  Yogaville of Virginia: Yoga’s Journey to Virginia & an Integral Yoga Workshop. Thursday, Feb.19, 3:45-5:45 pm. Woodward Campus Center, RED ROOM.

The Gaza Conflict
2.  Mark Perry,  Special negotiator in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will speak on the recent Gaza Conflict.  Thursday, Feb. 26, Red Room, 3-4pm

The Dialogue of Civilizations
3.  Majid Fakhry,  Prof. Emeritus at American Univ. in Beirut  will present:  The Dialogue of Civilizations: Islam, Christianity and the West.  Thursday,  March, 19, 2-3:15, in Monroe 104.

Sacred Music and Dance
4. Turkish Sacred Music and Dance, Wednesday, April 1, Great Hall,
6-8pm.

Human Rights in Islam
5. Ayatullah Dr. Muhen Kadivar (visiting Prof. at UVA) will speak on “Human Rights in Islam.” Monday, April 13, Great Hall 4-6pm.

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The Leidecker Center for Asian Studies’ Sixth Annual Asian Film Festival 2009 Program Feb. 4 – Feb. 7

All films followed immediately by a reception and a brief discussion

Sukob / Subtitled:  Wed. 2/4/09  Trinkle 236  6pm

Ang Tanging Ina:  Thu. 2/5  Trinkle 204  6pm

Himala:  Fri. 2/6  Trinkle 204  6pm

Oro Plata Mata:  Sat. 2/7  Trinkle 236  1pm

Alan Wolfe: Who’s Afraid of American Religion

Jan. 21 7:30 p.m. Dodd Auditorium

Alan Wolfe, Professor of Political Science and Director of Boston College’s Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, will deliver a lecture, “Who’s Afraid of American Religion?” in conjunction with Religious Freedom Week.   The week recognizes the role Fredericksburg played in Jefferson’s writing of the Statute of Virginia for the Freedom of Religion.  Alan Wolfe is one of the most publicly prominent and recognizable political scientists in the nation, and one of the two or three foremost and well-respected academics writing on religion and politics.  A prolific author, his works include Does American Democracy Still Work? (Yale, 2006), Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It (Princeton, 2005), The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Practice Our Faith (Free Press, 2003), and One Nation, After All (Penguin 1998).

Sept. 25 – Nov. 20, 2008                                                                                                                                    Beauvoir: The Centennial Celebration                                                                                                  A Series of lectures and films celebrating the life of French philosopher and author Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

April 4 – 6, 2008
The 16th biennial conference of the
North American Sartre Society

March, 2008
The Only End of Jazz is Jazz
Irish Poet Michael O’Siadheil

October 25, 2007
The Gospel of Jesus: New Light on Early Christianity
Dr. Marvin Meyer
Chapman University Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies
The American Member of the Gospel of Judas Translation Team

October 2, 2007
Education and Disability in the Ancient World
Jack Trammell
Randolph-Macon College

October, 2007
Women and Development in Africa
Stephanie van Hook, CPR alum and peace
corps volunteer

January 19, 2007
Spiritual Dimensions of Traditional Middle Eastern Music
Lecture and performance by Roya Bahrami
4-5 p.m. Trinkle 106A

GOD(s): The Public Lecture Series

All lectures held Mondays at 6:00 p.m. in Trinkle 204 unless otherwise indicated

January 18, 2007
Religion, Freedom, and God
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
7:30 p.m. Dodd Auditorium

January 22, 2007
The God from the Machine: Reversals and Revelations in Greek Tragedy
Angela Gosetti-Murrayjohn

January 29, 2007
Talking with Gods: the Logic of Hymn
Joe Romero

February 5, 2007
New God in Town: How Gods and Goddesses Were Added to the Roman State Religion
Liane Houghtalin

February 12, 2007
Look Who’s Talking: Revelation in American Religious History
Mary Beth Mathews

February 19, 2007
God Unmasked: Gnostic Exegesis of Genesis
James Goehring

February 26, 2007
God, Trinity, Power: “God is the One Who Knows How to Die”
David Cain

March 12, 2007
Allah and the Question of the ‘Other’ in the Qur’an
Mehdi Aminrazavi

March 19, 2007
Transcendence After Auschwitz
Carl Sachs

March 26, 2007
Many Gods – One God – No God – No Difference
David Ambuel

March 2, 2007
The Gospel According to Mark (Twain)
Craig Vasey

April 9, 2007
Blasphemy and Ecstasy: God Made Visible
Nina Mikhalevsky

April 16, 2007
The God Genes
Mehdi Aminrazavi

March 29, 2006
Love, Death, and Magic in Etruscan Urns
Dr. Jean MacIntosh Turfa
University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania

October 26, 2005
Venetian Presence in Greece: The Case of the Island of Crete
Dr. Chryssa Maltezou
Professor of Byzantine History
University of Athens
Director, Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Studies in Venice China

October 11, 2005
On Confucius
Kong Linghong
Daoism Study Center
Zhejiang University, China

October 12, 2005
On Daoism
Kong Linghong
Daoism Study Center
Zhejiang University, China

April 1-3, 2005
The Arrogance of Power: Being American After 9/11

March 22, 2005
The Locus Amoenus in Greek and Roman Poetry: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Patricia Rosenmeyer
University of Wisconsin

Saturday, March 27, 2004
Colloquium on Peace Services: Education and Training Based on a Philosophy of Non-Violence
Sponsored by Global Peace Services, USA and Leidecker Center for Asian Studies

February 11, 2004
The Aesthetic and Poetic Image: Beyond Ekphrasis in Rilke and Cézanne
Prof. Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
University of Maine

February 10, 2004
After the Palace Burns
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Winner of the 2002 Paris Review Prize in Poetry
Prof. Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
University of Maine

March 31, 2003
Putting People back into the Ancient City: The Archaeological Evidence for Carthage
Prof. Naomi J. Norman
Associate Professor of Classics
University of Georgia

November 15, 2002
Charitable Foundations in Ancient Greece
Prof. Josh Sosin
Duke University

November 12, 2002
Cleopatra Goes to the Opera
David Winn

March 27, 2002
Toga and Dagger: Espionage in the Ancient World
Guest Lecture by Rose Mary Sheldon
Professor of History, Virginia Military Institute

April 5-7, 2002
Civil Society: East and West
An interdisciplinary Confrerence
sponsored by Leidecker Center for Asian Studies