BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250830T182328EDT-2614hvCHui@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250830T222328Z DESCRIPTION:2022 Birks Lecture is part of School of Religious Studies 75th Anniversary.\n\nProfessor Tomoko Masuzawa will speak on\, Queen in the Att ic: Theology and the University. Where Was Theology and How Did We Get Thi s Wrong?\n\nWas theology the 鈥渜ueen of the sciences鈥� and the highest autho rity in the medieval university? When we consider what is known about the earliest universities that came into existence in the 12th and 13th centur ies\, it becomes readily apparent that this familiar sobriquet stems from certain phrases for self-promotion\, not a description of reality. Surveyi ng broadly what today鈥檚 historians of early universities have to tell us\, we may now adjust our image of the institution\, taking a more serious lo ok at the university鈥檚 origin and its raison d鈥櫭猼re. Accordingly\, it is n ecessary to correct our received notion of the place of theology in the me dieval academy. And we may start asking ourselves how we\, the moderns\, h ave been so consistently mistaken.\n\nTomoko Masuzawa is Professor Emerita of History and of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. B orn and educated in Tokyo\, she holds an MA (Yale) and a Ph.D. (UC Santa B arbara) in Religious Studies. She is a scholar of European intellectual hi story\, with a special interest in modern discourses on religion and the h istory of human sciences. She previously taught in the Religious Studies D epartment at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. Her publicati ons include In Search of Dreamtime: the Quest for the Origin of Religion ( 1993)\, The Invention of World Religions: Or\, How European Universalism W as Preserved in the Language of Pluralism (2005)\, 鈥淭he Bible as Literatur e?鈥擭ote on a Litigious Ferment of the Concept鈥� (2013)\, 鈥淪triating Differe nce: From 鈥楥eremonies and Customs鈥� to World Religions鈥� (2014)\, and 鈥淭heol ogy\, the Fairy Queen鈥� (2021). She has held a Guggenheim Foundation fellow ship as well as a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeto n\, NJ).\n DTSTART:20221012T203000Z DTEND:20221012T203000Z LOCATION:Birks Heritage Chapel\, Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2A7\, 3520 rue University SUMMARY:Birks Lecture Series: Professor Tomoko Masuzawa URL:/religiousstudies/channels/event/birks-lecture-ser ies-professor-tomoko-masuzawa-341596 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR