The Interdisciplinary Religion Group (IRG) is an informal working group of graduate students and faculty members whose interests involve the study of religion. Our hope is to provide a forum where participants can workshop research-in-progress, discuss theoretical and practical issues involved in the academic study of religion, and form connections across departments at UW-Madison. As our name suggests, we welcome participants from across the humanities and social sciences. The IRG aims to hold monthly meetings.
If you are interested in receiving regular updates about the activities of the IRG, please contact one of the coordinators: David Schulz or Dr. Eric Carlsson.
Spring 2021
Time: TBA, 2021 | 4:00-5:30p
Location: Zoom | This fall we will hold monthly meetings on Zoom starting towards the end of September, comprising a presentation for 45 minutes to an hour, and open Q&A for the remaining time
Open to graduate students and faculty members.
IRG: Adam Stern – “Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy” – Feb 10
Register Here On February 10, Adam Stern will present on a chapter from his forthcoming book, Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy. This work attends to survival as a notion of critical historical urgency. Beginning with the …
IRG: James Ungureanu — “Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict” – Mar 10
Register Here Time: March 10 | 4-5:30p CST Location: Zoom The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two—is part of our modern self-understanding. …
IRG: Brandon Bloch – “Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religion, Nation, and Democracy after Nazism” – Apr 14
Time: April 14 | 4-5:30p CST Location: Zoom | Registration info coming soon
Spring 2021
IRG: Adam Stern – “Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy” – Feb 10
Register Here On February 10, Adam Stern will present on a chapter from his forthcoming book, Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy. This work attends to survival as a notion of critical historical urgency. Beginning with the …
IRG: James Ungureanu — “Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict” – Mar 10
Register Here Time: March 10 | 4-5:30p CST Location: Zoom The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two—is part of our modern self-understanding. …
IRG: Brandon Bloch – “Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religion, Nation, and Democracy after Nazism” – Apr 14
Time: April 14 | 4-5:30p CST Location: Zoom | Registration info coming soon
Fall 2020
IRG: Ben Shannon — The Political Night Prayer and the Politicization of Religion in West Germany – Sept 23
Time: September 23 | 4 - 5:30p CST Location: Zoom | Please email crgc@wisc.edu for the link to this event.
IRG: Vaneesa Cook — Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left – Progressive Religious Activism from 1920-1980 – Oct 21
Time: October 21 | 4-5:30p CST Location: Zoom | Please email crgc@wisc.edu for the link to this event.
IRG: Kilian Harrer — Shifting Frontiers: Pilgrims, Protestants, and Revolutionaries in Eighteenth-Century Europe – Dec 2
Time: December 2 | 4 - 5:30p CST Location: Zoom | Please email crgc@wisc.edu for the link to this event
Spring 2020
IRG: Dr. Charles Cohen on Abrahamic Traditions – Feb 26
Time: 26 Feb 2020 | 4:00-5:30p Location: Rm 313 | Center for the Humanities | 432 E. Campus Mall Charles L. Cohen, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will guide us into …
IRG: Tyler Lehrer –Monks, Ministers, and Virtuous Kings: Stories of Buddhist Lineage Transmission in Dutch Colonial Southern Asia – Apr 29
Time: 29 April 2020 | 4:00-5:30p Location: Zoom Virtual Meeting | For access, please email David Schulz at daschulz@wisc.edu. Recent decades have been marked by intense debate in parts of Southeast and South Asia about …