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John Modern "Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science"
May 27, 2015 @ 12:15 pm - 2:00 pm | Stevenson Fireside Lounge
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John Modern is the author of Secularism in Antebellum America and The Bop Apocalypse. John is currently at work on two projects: the first explores the intersections of religion and cognition in American history and the second is a meditation on entropy, tentatively entitled Akron Devo Divine: A Delirious History of Rubber.
John Modern is the Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College.
Spring 2015 Colloquium Series
April 8, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka”
April 15, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling, Secular Religion, and the Anthropocene Blues”
April 22, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence”
April 29, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States”
May 6, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age”
May 13, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars, Sepoys, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila, 1762-4)”
May 20, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious”
May 27, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”