The Literature Department is pleased to invite you to the 2024 Winter Aurora Lecture featuring Professor James W. Laine, Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies, Macalester College.

Join Professor James Laine for a lecture titled: “Early Modern Cosmopolitanism: Steps on the Road to an Idea of Religious Tolerance,” with discussants Anna Bigelow – Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University and G.S. Sahota – Associate Professor of Literature and Aurora Chair at UC Santa Cruz.

Professor James Laine will be presenting the lecture on March 11th, as well as leading a book discussion of his Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History on March 12th.

For more information about the book discussion visit: Aurora Lecture Book Discussion.