The name “Vasudha” translates to “goddess of the Earth” — so you can call Vasudha Narayanan, distinguished professor of religion at the University of Florida, “goddess” for short. Narayanan’s Thursday lecture, titled “The Flavors of
Zahra Jamal is used to being in front of the Hall of Philosophy podium. On Wednesday, she experienced her first time behind it. She began her inaugural lecture with a joke — on Judgment Day,
Marion Nestle has fallen in love. The object of her affection? The first nutrition course she ever taught. Ever since her experience teaching the class, Nestle has been on a roll. Alongside her position as
Rabbi Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus probably was not expecting a tornado watch to interfere with his Tuesday talk. Despite thunderstorms and a delay in the middle of his Hall of Philosophy lecture, “Food, Faith and Fellowship: Connecting
When Norman Wirzba was preparing for his Interfaith Lecture, he read over the Department of Religion’s instructions. He noted he would be speaking in the Hall of Philosophy, an open-air pavilion, and was advised he
When Wajahat Ali and James Fallows took the Hall of Philosophy podium on Friday, things didn’t go as originally planned. Due to the news events of the past week, instead of the regular Interfaith Lecture
David Gluck does not want to sound cheesy when he describes meditation. But the peace he feels while practicing truly brings him “to the other side.” Gluck, a Japa yoga instructor, will close out the
Thursday was Diane Winston’s 26th wedding anniversary. But this wasn’t the romantic afternoon she was expecting. Instead, she spent it with her “new best friends” in the Hall of Philosophy, taking the podium with James
Marty Baron and Eric Newton have a long history. Their timeline together started at a meeting for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, where Newton is a consultant and Baron is a trustee.
Gustav Niebuhr told the Hall of Philosophy audience that when he took a pause, they should assume he was thinking very deeply about something. In fact, in these pauses, he wanted to make sure he
Peter Beinart has been reading James Fallows’ work since Beinart was in junior high school. But that’s not what Beinart and Fallows, associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New
When Michael Gerson began his lecture in the Hall of Philosophy, he said he struggled with his introduction, “given the pace and disturbing nature of recent history.” In a talk titled “Five Things Everyone Should
When the Abrahamic Program for Young Adults coordinators were sitting at their “Ask a Jew, Christian or Muslim” table on Bestor Plaza, they anticipated questions from curious adults. But instead, Zoë Garry, Nikhat Noorani, Omar
Bart Campolo is not fond of the title of the book he co-wrote with his father — Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son. In
L. Sebastian Purcell said the “tongues of fire in the sky” and “the roof of the sun god catching on fire” were both bad omens, leading Aztecs to a collective fear. Purcell, a scholar of
To Larry Terkel, meditation is like a guitar. “A guitarist would not play his guitar without tuning it, and wouldn’t tune his guitar and then put it down and not play it,” Terkel said. “Both