Event (05/20) Unmaking the Medicalized Body: Sallekhanā, Kinship, and the Limits of Bioethics
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Reception | 5:30 pm
Presentation | 6:00 pm
The AGR, Alumni Center, UC Davis Read More
News and Events
Notes From the Field: Ama Divers of Shima: Notes on Filming a Documentary in Japan
Tuesday, April 15
12:00 - 1:00pm
Sproul 912 Read More
Spring 25 Notes From the Field Talks
Michael Dylan Foster | Tuesday, April 15, 12:00-1:00 pm;
Ama Divers of Shima: Notes on Filming a Documentary in Japan
Michael Ziser | Tuesday, May 6, 12:00-1:00 pm
The Wetlands Converted: Spiritual Geography in Early New England Read More
RST Faculty Meaghan O'Keefe and Wendy Terry Receive Teaching Awards
Meaghan O’Keefe awarded Academic Senate 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching.
Wendy Terry awarded Academic Federation 2025 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award Read More
Event (3/7) Between Doctrine and Domesticity: Gender, Ethics, and the Vow of Sallekhanā
We are happy to invite you to the next lecture in our “Emerging Scholars in Jain Studies” virtual series co-organized by the Departments of Religious Studies at UC Davis and UC Riverside. The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Miki Chase on Friday, March 7th, 2025, 9:00-10:20am PST. Read More
Event (2/10) Jews, Muslims & the Challenges of Western Modernity
Date: February 10, 2025
Reception: 5:00 PM
Lecture: 5:30 PM
Location: Alpha Gamma Rho Room, UC Davis Alumni Center Read More
Event (2/11) Notes From the Field - Stephanie Milton: “I’ll Pray About It:” Black Patients' Expressed Beliefs and Agency In Critical Values-Based Health Decisions
Tuesday, February 11
12:00-1:00 pm
912 Sproul Read More
Winter Quarter Drop-In Advising
Drop-In Advising
Thursdays 10am-12pm
Sproul 215 Read More
Notes From The Field - Prof. Sven-Erik Rose “Ethics in Collapse: The Warsaw Ghetto Writings of Yitskhok Bernshteyn”
Prof. Sven-Erik Rose
Departments of German & Russian and Comparative Literature
Affiliated Faculty, Graduate Program in the Study of Religion
“Ethics in Collapse: The Warsaw Ghetto Writings of Yitskhok Bernshteyn”
Tuesday, Jan 14, 12:00-1:00 pm
912 Sproul Read More
Event (12/3) Al-Fārābi and the Philosophy of Naming: Gaza and Genocide
Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 5:00 PM reception; lecture begins at 5:30 PM
Alpha Gamma Rho Room in the UC Davis Alumni Center Read More
Event (12/2) Jews and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Shared Spaces, Shared Histories - A Conversation Between Two Historians
Monday, December 2, 2024, 5:00 PM reception; discussion begins at 5:30 PM Read More
Event (11/19) Pizza Night
Come say hi to your peers, faculty, and have some free pizza! Read More
Notes From the Field - Sicily Lerner: The Death of the Messiah: Messianic and Temporal Impossibility in Franz Kafka’s Der Jäger Gracchus and Bruno Schulz’s Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą
Tuesday, November 12 2024
12:00-1:00 pm || 912 Sproul
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Notes From the Field - Sara Tillema: Deconversion, Deconstruction, & Ex-Vangelical Experience in the US
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
12:00-1:00pm || 912 Sproul
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UC Davis Ranked No. 3 Public University for Setting Grads Up for Financial Success
The rankings, from The Wall Street Journal and its research partners College Pulse and Statista, consider how much a school improves students’ chances of graduating and their future earnings with results from student and alumni surveys on college life and diversity. Read More
“Emerging Scholars in Jain Studies” virtual series: Identity and Identities, Jain and Otherwise
Presented by the Departments of Religious Studies at UC Davis and UC Riverside Read More
2024 Mohini Jain Presidential Chair in Jain Studies Prizes
The Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Davis announces the recipients of the 2024 Mohini Jain Presidential Chair in Jain Studies Prizes Read More
Graduate Study of Religion Social
Meet our new GREL faculty
Welcome our incoming GREL Graduate Students
Renew friendships and collaborations with GREL students and faculty Read More
2024-2025 Notes From The Field Lecture Series
The Department of Religious Studies will host a monthly informal lecture on religion by a faculty member from UC Davis or a neighboring university campus. The lectures will offer a space for faculty to share their most recent research. Read More
RST Faculty Lynna Dhanani Awarded Prestigious Fulbright US Scholar Award
Dhanani was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award for the 2024-25 academic year. This October she will travel to India for nine months where she will be based at Ahmedabad University in Gujarat. Read More
Emerging Scholars in Jain Studies Virtual Lecture - Nonviolence, Magic and Snake Charming: Ambiguous Jains in Indo-Persian Sources
Presented by Dr. Jean Arzoumanov on Friday, May 31, 2024, 9:00-10:20am PDT Read More
Anti-imperialism and Resistance in Yemen
Presented by Professor Flagg Miller on the MU Quad
Wednesday, May 29th, 5-6pm Read More
5/9/24 Event - Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame: Our Liberations are Intertwined with One Another: Jews in Solidarity with Palestinians
Atalia Omer
University of Notre Dame
Our Liberations are Intertwined with One Another:
Jews in Solidarity with Palestinians Read More
Call for Papers: 2024 Religious Studies Writing Prize for Best Undergraduate Paper or Project
The Religious Studies Department announces its ninth annual Prize for Best Undergraduate Paper or Project competition to showcase student work and to recognize academic excellence and creativity in Religious Studies. Read More
4/30/24 Event - RST curriculum orientation for Fall 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 12-1pm
Sproul 912
Lunch Provided Read More
4/16/24 Event - Notes From The Field: Prophets and Puppets: Notes on Ancient Healing and Entertainment
Presented by Prof. Mike Chin - Department of Classics
TUESDAY, APRIL 16 12:00-1:00 PM
916 SPROUL Read More
2/20/24 Event - Medieval Sex Crimes and Consent in Canon Law
Notes from the Field | Prof. Grace Delmolino, French and Italian
This talk will analyze the standard taxonomy of medieval sex crimes as defined in canon law, discuss how consent relates to these crimes, and reflect on how the medieval crime of “raptus” morphed into the etymologically connected (but conceptually divergent) “rape” of the 21st century Read More
In Search of the 'Numinous Mushroom’ (Lingzhi)
On Saturday, February 3, RST190 took a trip with Professor Flagg Miller to the Asian Art Museum as part of their week devoted to the history and study of “numinous mushrooms” in Chinese Taoism. Read More
RST Student Dheera Dusanapudi interviewed by Chancellor Gary May
Dheera Dusanapudi is a junior studying international relations and religious studies, and works as the student lead for the Article 26 Backpack, a program that offers refugees face-to-face counseling and a cloud storage platform to preserve important records like transcripts and diplomas. Read More