Event category: Department of Religion and Culture

Book Presentation and Q&A with Dr. Jason Higgins. Sponsored by the VT Prison Book Project

Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, Director and Curator of the Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University, will explore the complexities and contradictions of instrument-making labor, which is deeply rooted in mountain forests and expressive traditions but also engaged with global processes of production and consumption. His free public lecture will appeal to those interested in material culture, […]

Menzel, a Jewish scientist from Vienna, pioneered research on canine psychology, development, and behavior that fundamentally shaped the ways dogs came to be trained and understood. Her unique story illustrates the complicated modern histories of women in science, human interactions with canines, and Jewish history in Europe and the Middle East.

The apostle Paul’s commentary on “fornication” portrays sex workers as a source of moral pollution that must be extricated from the Christian community. Paul’s animosity toward these mostly enslaved individuals permeates the ground from which Christian sexual ethics emerged, ensuring that the sex worker would take a prominent role in how early Christian thinkers conceived […]