CATHOLIC STUDIES

University of California,
Santa Barbara

Department of Religious Studies

gathering scholars and bringing their work into dialogue with the wider community


Upcoming Events

May 21, 2008
Colleen McDannell, University of Utah
"Learning from The Exorcist"
View .pdf flyer for details.

Future Events

To be announced.

Past Events

Monday, April 28, 2008
William A. Christian, Jr. (Tipton Visiting Professor)
"The Eyes of the Beholders: Spanish and Central European Visions of the Christ of Limpias, 1919-1936"
View .pdf flyer for details.

March 10, 2008
"Church, Sex and the Public Sphere: Italy and the United States." Join scholars from Italy and the United States for this one-day conference. Free and open to the public.
View conference website for details.

February 27, 2008
Peter Lake, Princeton University
"Buckingham Does the Globe: Shakespeare's Henry VIII and the Origins of the Personal Rule of Charles I"
View .pdf flyer for details.

February 17, 2008
Fr. Thomas Michel, S.J., Conference Director, Jesuit Secretariat for Interreligious Dialogue in Rome, Italy; Ecumenical Secretary, Federation of Asian Bishops Conference
"At the Convergence of Two Oceans: Issues in Catholic-Muslim Relations"
View .pdf flyer for details.

May 22, 2007
Bernard McGinn, U. of Chicago Divinity School (Tipton Visiting Professor)
"The Venture of Mysticism in the New Millennium"

May 3-4, 2007
Workshop: "Synaesthesia in Mystical Traditions, the Arts, and Cognitive Neuroscience"

February 28, 2007
Peter Phan, Georgetown University
"Is Christianity a Western Religion? A View from Asian Catholicism"
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February 7, 2007
John Allen
"The Upside Down Church: A Brief History of the Catholic Church in the 21st Century"
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May 31, 2006
Thomas Mayer, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
"Trying Galileo"
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May 4-5, 2006
Conference: "The Catholic Church as Global Actor"
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May 4, 2006
Thomas J. Reese, S.J., America magazine
"The Catholic Church as Global Actor"
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April 18, 2006
Daniel Bornstein (Tipton Visiting Professor)
"At Home in the Parish: Priests and their Families in Medieval Italy" (Annual Tipton Lecture)
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