This workshop explores the role of religion in American history, culture, and society from the colonial period to the present day. The workshop engages in historiographical, theoretical, and methodological discussions about the place of religion in narratives of American history by focusing on issues and topics such as gender, race, theology, consumer culture, literature, and the rise of evangelicalism. The workshop welcomes scholars from a variety of academic disciplines including, but not limited to, the Divinity School and the history, English and sociology departments. Presentations by students, faculty, and guest speakers, take place in a relaxed, discussion, oriented environment designed to further the research and knowledge of participants.

This workshop discusses projects by graduate students, faculty, and guests relating to the broadly defined fields of American literary and cultural studies. We strive to promote the canonical diversity and comparative approaches that have become critical to the analysis of American cultures. We also investigate the thematic, methodological, and pedagogical issues across historical periods within the fields of literary studies and American studies.

This workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students and faculty whose work concerns the material and sociocultural lives of people of the African continent and its discursively constituted diasporas, present and historical. Student participants tend mostly to come from the anthropology department, but the workshop also has active members in the fields of history, human development, literatures, political science, religious studies, and history of culture, and encourages cross-disciplinary collaboration and exchange. In addition to regular presentations by students, faculty, and invited guests, the workshop hosts biannual Red Lion Seminars jointly with Northwestern University’s Program of African Studies.

List of Workshops:

• Law, Culture, and Society Workshop – Law, Culture, and Society Graduate student workshop.
• Contemporary Philosophy Workshop – Contemporary Philosophy Graduate student workshop.
• Semantics and Philosophy of Language Workshop – Semantics and the Philosophy of Language Graduate student workshop.
• New Media Workshop – The New Media Workshop provides a forum for faculty and graduate students to discuss the innovation and obsolescence of media, where these overlapping, asynchronous events are understood through social practices and lived experience.
• Wittgenstein Workshop – The Wittgenstein Workshop aims to foster a variety of forms of interdisciplinary research that take their point of departure from a shared interest in Wittgenstein’s intellectual achievement.
• EthNoise! Ethnomusicology Workshop – the goal of the workshop is to contribute to the growing interdisciplinary dialogue on music as a social practice, exploring diverse approaches to the study of music in both the humanities and the social sciences.
• Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop – a forum to discuss ancient philosophical texts, present papers and receive feedback.
• Clinical Ethnography Workshop – the workshop provides an opportunity for faculty and students involved with the clinical ethnography program to meet and discuss issues related to clinical psychology and culture.
• Early Modern Philosophy Workshop – a forum in the Department of Philosophy for graduate students and faculty from various disciplines to engage with Early Modern thinkers.
• Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop – the purpose of the workshop is to bring together faculty and graduate students working on areas of the Western Mediterranean during the medieval and early modern periods.
• Social History Workshop is a forum to discuss and develop work that takes social history methodology seriously – the history of everyday life and people who have been excluded from dominant historical narratives.
• Literature and Cultural History of Premodern East Asia is a graduate student workshop sponsored by the Council of Advanced studies and the Center for East Asian Studies
• 18th- and 19th-Century Cultures Workshop - During the years 1660-1900, cultural production achieved unprecedented heterogeneity throughout Britain, its colonial possessions, and Western Europe. The goal of the workshop is to interrogate the tension between this diversified production and the unifying narrative of modernity often imposed on this 240-year span.
• China Before Print Workshop – Graduate Student Workshop
• Formal Philosophy - This workshop is intended as a venue for graduate students and faculty to discuss issues pertaining to logic, the philosophy of mathematics, formal epistemology, general philosophy of science, and the philosophy of the particular sciences.  The emphasis from year to year is tailored to graduate students’ areas of interest.  Both qualitative and formal discussions of these topics are welcome.
• Art & Politics in East Asia – Graduate Student Workshop
• Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia - Graduate Student Workshop