The Annual Durfee Lecture was initiated by an endowment by Harold A. Durfee and Doris G. Durfee. Held every spring, the series provides our students and colleagues with the opportunity to meet distinguished thinkers.
Current Lecture
Sheep Gone Astray: The Tragic History of the Religious Right
by
Randall Balmer
Professor of American Religious History
Bernard College, Columbia University
Monday, April 27, 2009, 4:00pm
Battelle Atrium
Randall Balmer, professor of American religious history at Barnard College, has taught at Columbia University since earning the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985. He has been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College, Yale Divinity School, and at Princeton, Yale, and Northwestern universities. He has also taught in the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and is currently the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Distinguished Visiting Professor at Emory University. Professor Balmer, an Episcopal priest, is author of a dozen books, including “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America,” which was made into a three-part documentary for PBS. Mr. Balmer was nominated for an Emmy for writing and hosting that series. His most recent book is “God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.”
Past Lectures
2008
Religion and National Conflict: Reflections on Myanmar, Iraq, and Other Current Examples
David Little
Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and
International Conflict, Harvard Divinity School;
Fellow of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
2007
Parmenides in the 21st Century
Harold A. Durfee
Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy and Religion
American University
