Welcome to the Walter H. Capps Center
Greetings!
The Capps Center is looking forward to a full and exciting Spring Quarter.
We are pleased to host several events that are free and open to the public:
- April 25: Follow the New Way: How American Refugee Policies Changed Hmong Religious Life, with Melissa Borja (Martin E. Marty Lecture on Religion in American Life)
- April 26: Asian American Activism: Drawing on History, Inspiring the Future, a panel featuring Manjusha Kulkarni, Melissa Borja, Diane Fujino, Artnelson Concordia, and Naomi Joseph [Hybrid: livestream and in-person]
- April 26: Challenging Hate: How to Stop Anti-AAPI Violence and Bias, with Manjusha Kulkarni (Wade Clark Roof Lecture on Human Rights) [Hybrid: livestream and in-person]
- May 16: Ending Sexual Violence on Campus: A Holistic Approach, a panel featuring erin Khuê Ninh, Ariana Alvarez, Cierra Sorin, Leila Loose, and Briana Conway (Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy)
Additionally, we have partnered with several entities on campus in order to facilitate a number of other events (please see our Events page for final details):
- April 18: Buddhist Economics and the Economics of Buddhism, with Richard K. Payne and Fabio Rambelli
- April 20: Cameroon: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, a panel featuring Elisabeth Ayuk-Etang, William Ndi, Gilda Forbang, Aloysius Ngalim, and Glaydah Namukasa
- April 21-23: Land Back/Language Back: 10th Annual American Indian and Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium, with a special panel on global indigeneity co-sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council’s Governmateriality of Indigenous Religions project and the Capps Center on April 23
- May 4: Energy: Ecology, Extraction, and Religion, with Clayton Crockett and Terra Schwerin Rowe
- May 11: New Frontiers in Family Research on Religion and Spirituality, with Joseph Blankholm, Merril Silverstein, and others
- May 16: Addiction: Consumption and the Dilemmas of Freedom, with Susan Zieger, Natasha Schull, and Lucas McCracken
- May 18: Sensitive People: Cancel Culture & Other Myths, with Kathryn Lofton
- May 20: An Afternoon with Sister Joan Chittister (at Trinity Episcopal Church)
Finally, we are looking forward to celebrating with our graduating Mendell fellows and McCune interns and congratulate them on a wonderfully productive year.
Sincerely,
Greg Johnson
