Category: Events

Exploring Race & Interfaith – Mar 2 & 9

Time: 9 March 2021 | 6 - 7:15 pm Location: Zoom | Register here

Dr. Annabel Wharton: Contemporary Uses of the Past: The Model of Herodian Jerusalem in the Israel Museum – Feb 25

Time: Thursday | 25 February  2021 | 5:00p CST Location: Zoom | Zoom information available here

Lenten & Ramadan Virtual Peace Feast

Time: Feb 28; Mar 7; Apr 18; Apr 25 | 2-3:30p Location: Zoom

Contemplative Spirituality with Paul Knitter – Dec 8

Time: 8 December 2020 Location: Zoom Catholic-Buddhist Theologian Paul Knitter joins our undergraduate fellows for a session exploring contemplative spirituality. He presents a short teaching, followed by meditation and a Q&A. Key Points: 0:00​ — Introductions 7:10​ — Teaching 35:09​ — Meditative Practice 54:05​ — Q&A  

David interviewed by Jake Henry from the Center for Cultural Enrichment – Dec 3

Time: 3 December 2020 Location: Instagram Live Our Program Coordinator David Schulz is interviewed by one of our fellows, Jake Henry, working for the Center for Cultural Enrichment on campus. We had a conversation about the CRGC, interfaith work, and the undergraduate fellowship more specifically. Hosted on Instagram Live on December 3, 2020, it was an informal, …

IRG: Brandon Bloch – “Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religion, Nation, and Democracy after Nazism” – Apr 14

Time: April 14 | 4-5:30p CST Location: Zoom | Register Here Following a long association with nationalism and militarism, culminating in widespread complicity with the Nazi regime, Protestant churches in post-Nazi West Germany became sites of vibrant democratic reform movements by the 1960s. This talk explores the interconnections of political and religious change in postwar …

IRG: James Ungureanu — “Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict” – Mar 10

Register Here   Time: March 10 | 4-5:30p CST Location: Zoom The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two—is part of our modern self-understanding. As the story goes, John William Draper (1811–1882) and Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) constructed dramatic narratives in the nineteenth century …

IRG: Adam Stern – “Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy” – Feb 10

Register Here On February 10, Adam Stern will present on a chapter from his forthcoming book, Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy. This work attends to survival as a notion of critical historical urgency. Beginning with the identification of “Jewish survival” as a prominent rhetorical transit-point for this discourse, it redirects the genealogy toward the theological-political history …

IRG: Kilian Harrer — Shifting Frontiers: Pilgrims, Protestants, and Revolutionaries in Eighteenth-Century Europe – Dec 2

Time: December 2 | 4 - 5:30p CST Location: Zoom | Please email crgc@wisc.edu for the link to this event

IRG: Vaneesa Cook — Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left – Progressive Religious Activism from 1920-1980 – Oct 21

Time: October 21 | 4-5:30p CST Location: Zoom | Please email crgc@wisc.edu for the link to this event.