Historicizing Secular Studies Across the Disciplines

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HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL

December 9, 2022

James Room, Swartz Hall

45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

This initiative seeks to provide a forum for conversation around these questions: from our scholars' particular research and disciplinary vantages, when did the secular emerge as a category and why? What problems or questions did it set out to solve? What historical conditions were relevant at the time? And furthermore, is "secular" still useful? Why or why not, and under what conditions? What terms or discourses may have emerged as more useful or accurate to the relevant research questions and problems?

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Panelists

Todd Weir - University of Groningen

Albert Wu - Academia Sinica

Victoria Smolkin - Wesleyan University

Eric Gregory - Princeton University

Lucia Ruth Hulsether - Skidmore College

Cemil Aydin - University of North Carolina

K. Healan Gaston - Harvard University

Justine Quijada - Wesleyan University

Amy Alemu - Scripps College

Susanna Ferguson - Smith College

Conference Flyer. December 9, 2022, in the James Room of Swartz Hall.

Organizers

Michelle C. Sanchez

Associate Professor of Theology, Harvard Divinity School

Sanchez received her doctorate in the study of religion in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. Her first book, Calvin and the Resignification of the World: Creation, Incarnation, and the Problem of Political Theology was released by...

Justin Reynolds

Lecturer, Harvard University

Justin Reynolds is a Lecturer on Social Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, where he taught in the Core Curriculum before coming to Harvard. His research interests include the history of political thought, international order in...

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Lecturer, Wesleyan University

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins is a global historian of 20th century intellectual and political thought. He is currently at work on two book projects: The first is titled, The Neoconservative Moment in France: Raymond Aron and the United States (Columbia...