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James & David Orr Lecture on Culture & Religion

The James and David Orr Memorial Lectures on Culture and Religion bring to Dartmouth each year scholars and writers whose achievements are at the highest level, but whose main fields of interest are not necessarily religion. Past Orr Lecturers include historians, anthropologists, novelists, biologists, and philosophers.

History

In 1972 James H. Orr, a Boston financier and supporter of the Religion Department at Dartmouth, provided the funding in memory of his son, David, for a lecture series now known as the "James and David Orr Memorial Lectures on Culture and Religion." The initial "Orr Lecture" was given that year by Mircea Eliade of the University of Chicago who lectured on "Sacred City, Sacred Time." Past Orr Lecturers include Lionel Trilling, Mary Douglas, Edward Said, Carolyn Bynum, Edward Shils, Rodney Needham, Donald Davidson, Amartya Sen, Gita Mehta, Judith Butler, Karen Armstrong, and Steven Pinker.

2020 Orr Lectures

"The Third American Founding: Re-imagining America After Donald Trump"
Eddie S. Glaude
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Chair, Department of African American Studies, Princeton University

Thursday, February 20, 2020
4:30pm
Filene Auditorium
Free & open to all
Reception follows

 

"Jesus & Judaism: How Bad History Creates Bad Theology" CANCELLED
Amy-Jill Levine, University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies, and Professor of New Testament Studies, Divinity School and College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University

Thursday, April 28, 2020
4:30pm
Kreindler Conference Center (041 Haldeman Hall; location tentative)
Free & open to all
Reception follows