Department of Religion

Visiting Edinburgh Professor Matthew Novenson will teach Religion 19, "When People Were Gods," this Summer 2014 Term.

Professor Randall Balmer explored America's fascination with violence in his Sunday, February 2, 2014, essay in The Valley News, "Super Bowl: Sacred and Profane."

Farid Esack, South African Muslim scholar, writer, and political activist known for his opposition to apartheid, will give the 2014 James & David Orr Lecture on Culture and Religion at Dartmouth on Thursday, April 24, 2014, at 4:15pm in Haldeman 041. The title of his talk is The Contemporary Democracy and the Human Rights Project – Challenges for the Progressive Muslim Intellectual.

Professor Susannah Heschel delivered an invited plenary address on race at the Society of Jewish Ethics' annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, in January 2014.

Professor Susan Ackerman has been appointed President of the New England and Eastern Canada Region of the Society of Biblical Literature. Founded in 1880, the Society of Biblical Literature is the oldest and largest learned society devoted to the critical investigation of the Bible from a variety of academic disciplines.

Professor Susannah Heschel has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She will serve in a newly-established position as liaison to the academic community.

Professor Susan Ackerman has been appointed president of the American Schools of Oriental Research, an organization that supports and encourages the study of the Near East, from the earliest times to the present.

On December 7, 2013, Professor Susannah Heschel gave the keynote address at Erudition and Commitment: A conference in honour of Angelika Neuwirth, held at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin. The theme of her talk was "Islam and Jewish-German Self Understanding."

Professor Susannah Heschel spoke with The Atlantic about plans to build a multi-faith prayer space atop the ruins of St. Peter’s Church in Berlin.

NPR reached out to Ronald Green, the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, about the ethical challenges of research that some believe could lead to the creation of “designer babies.”