Alumni/Alumnae Council Chairperson Christopher J. Hanson, MDiv ’10, moderated a discussion with this year's Gomes Honorees about their time at HDS, their views on the importance of School, and their work in the world. The panel was part of HDS's bicentennial celebration and alumni reunion.… Read more about Video: In Conversation: The Bicentennial Gomes Honorees
Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton discussed the role of HDS at Harvard, as well as the role of religion and ethics at other Harvard Schools with Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean James Ryan, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, and Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. The panel was part of HDS's bicentennial celebration.… Read more about Video: Religion Matters: HDS at Harvard University
Between 1970 and 1985, HDS changed from an almost exclusively male institution into a school with a majority of women students and a commitment to gender analysis. A panel of those who propelled the women’s studies revolution follow its reverberations into the twenty-first century during a discussion that took place during HDS's bicentennial celebration.… Read more about Video: The Women’s Studies Revolution
Center for the Study of World Religions Visiting Scholar Sasha Dehghani provides an introduction to the life and writings of Bahá'u'lláh (1817–1892), with a focus on the principle of unity in its diverse forms of expression on the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
Dr. Anna Sun, HDS Berggruen Fellow and Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Kenyon College gives a lecture based on her research project for the year, “The Logic of Prayer in Contemporary China.”
On April 18, Harvey Cox, HDS Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus, discussed his recent publication, The Market as God, at the Center for the Study of World Religions.
Eliza Griswold, a poet, writer, and journalist, reads from poems she's written this year at HDS, and present the blueprint of her Berggruen Fellowship project mapping Syrian artists, filmmakers, poets, and writers since the revolution began.… Read more about Video: New Poems and a Talk on Syrian Artists in Exile
