And on January 26, 2016, at 7:30 PM, we will host Professor M. Andrew Holowchak, editor of the recent anthology Thomas Jefferson and Political Philosophy, for our Jefferson Lecture, on the topic “Jefferson and Jesus,” which will also be free and open to the public. For more information, see here.
Here‘s the latest from UMW Religion (’01) grad, Kelly Murphy, assistant professor of Religion at Central Michigan University. Professor Murphy teaches a course on AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” and she contributed this piece on the zombie apocalypse to The Washington Post.
The faculty in Classics are pleased to announce that Teddy Dillon, Ellen Field, and Amanda Liverette have been accepted to and intend to attend the Kenchreai Archaeological Field School this summer. The program as administered by Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. Stay tuned for a report this fall. Well done, Ἑλληνοφιλοί!
The Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion, and the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies present a public lecture by Dr. Darlene Brooks-Hedstrom, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, and Director of Archaeology at Wittenberg University (Springfield, Ohio): “Digging for Monks: Monastic Archaeology in Egypt” In her talk, Professor Brooks-Headstrom will consider the following […]
An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol.5. Ed. S.H. Nasr & M. Aminrazavi, London: I.B. Tauris, 2015. pp. 544.The fifth and final volume of An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia deals with some seven centuries of Islamic thought stretching from the era following the Mongol invasion to the end of the Qajar period early in the […]