General News

October 20 in Halton Reading Room at 5:00 pm (reception) and 6:00 (lecture) Sylvester Johnson, Professor of Black Studies at Northwestern University, will give a lecture on “Governing the Ethical Future of AI: Automation, Humanity, and Democracy” as part of our Phillips Lecture Series. From Northwestern’s website: Sylvester A. Johnson is Professor of Black Studies […]

Join us in Macy 110 at 4:00 pm Dr. Hillary Kaell (McGill University) speaks in Macy 110 at 4:00pm on “Haunted Nature: Spirit and Power in a Public Garden.” The Elizabethan Garden in Manteo, NC (pictured here) was designed in the mid-twentieth century as a living memorial for sixteenth-century English settlers who died on Roanoke […]

Congratulations on her fifth book! Barbara Thiede has contracted with Routledge for Divine Abuse of Children: Samuel and Mary in the Holy of Holies, co-authored with Eric Vanden Eykel.

at the Centre for Religion and Public Life in Leeds, U.K. Dr, Thiede will be presenting a lecture in a seminar series sponsored by the Centre for Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds. The talk, titled “Not Fixing the Bible’s God: Reflections from a Rabbi and Biblical Scholar,” will be on October […]

On Thursday, September 18 Dr. K. will be speaking on “Natural Resources and Burmese Religion” in the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Speaker Series.

Our inaugural Loy H. Witherspoon Professor of Christian Origins We are thrilled to welcome Davina Lopez to our faculty as the first Loy H. Witherspoon Professor of Christian Origins. Dr. Witherspoon, a founding member of our department who died in 2017, generously endowed this professorship as part of his enduring legacy at Charlotte. Davina C. Lopez is a […]

Monday, September 15, at 2:30 in Macy 110 Eric Hoenes del Pinal will present on “The Lake Who Eats Girls and the  Mountain Who Stumbled: Notes on Relating to the Other-than-Human Beings in the Guatemalan Highlands” Abstract: Guatemala’s Q’eqchi’-Maya people understand the world as being inhabited by a broad range of other-than-human beings whose lives […]

for Personally Speaking on March 25, 2026 Will Sherman will be the speaker for the College of Humanities, Earth & Social Sciences’ Personally Speaking series. Dr. Sherman will be speaking on “Singing with the Mountains: Narratives of God and Language in Islam and Afghanistan,” based on the book Singing with the Mountains: The Language of God […]

In conjunction with Dr. Thiede’s newest book Dr. Thiede interviewed scholars in connection with her newest book, Rape Culture and the Bible: Scholars Reflect. You can view the film here.

Coming in October! We are pleased to announce that Dr. Thiede’s newest book, Rape Culture and the Bible: Scholars Reflect, will be published by Routledge in October. You can find details on this newest publication here.