Academic Clubs
Ethics Club
The Ethics Club provides a forum for intellectual and social exchange for students and faculty interested in the study of religious ethics, ethics broadly construed, or disciplines that have moral or religious concerns. We host film nights, workshops, pub nights, study sessions, and other events. The Ethics Club frequently co-sponsors events with the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop. If you would like more information or wish to subscribe to the email listserv, please contact us via email.
Leaders: Daniel Stanley and Anna Stoneman
Religions in America Club
The Religions in America Club is a forum to explore the role of religion in American culture from the colonial period to the present day. We frequently co-sponsor events with the Religions in America Workshop, including paper presentations by students, faculty, and visiting scholars. We also host pub nights and other social events. Please visit our workshop website for a schedule of these events, and email us if you have a paper you would like to present.
Leader: Hannah Ozmun, Maggie Goldberger, and Nathan Tucker
Theology Club
The Theology Club is a forum for discussion of theology, understood as scholarly reflection on doctrines, texts, practices, and material cultures of religions. Theology, in this sense, is taken to center “first person” accounts of religious practice and experience while also valuing second order reflection on these accounts. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged.
Leaders: Luis Alvarado and Annalea Thiessen
Religion, Literature, and Visual Culture Club
The RLVC Club promotes the engagement of students of religion with a broad range of phenomena related to literature and visual culture: textual, visual, and material cultures, rhetoric, poetics, narratology, aesthetics, philosophy, hermeneutics, criticism and literary theory, film, media and performance studies, and other relevant fields. Our primary venue for this is paper workshops, and we welcome proposals that touch on any of these issues. For more information, please contact us via email.
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Religion, Theory, and Interpretation Club
The Religion, Theory, and Interpretation Study Group is a PhD student-led study group that focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of religion that students and faculty employ in their research. The group facilitates conversations on both student writing and published work.
Leaders: TBA
Hebrew Bible Club
The purpose of the Hebrew Club is to promote connection and collegiality among students focused on and interested in Hebrew Bible scholarship. Our club provides opportunities for connection, dialogue, and support between students at various points in their programs, and we facilitate a combination of social events, study groups (reserving spaces for students to discuss their current projects), and reading groups on the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and relevant secondary literature.
Leaders: Kate Vetter Tyler (kvettertyler@uchicago.edu)