To learn more about the Mafoi Carlisle Bogitsh Memorial Lecture, visit the Divinity School’s Annual Community Lectures page.
Note: Details about lectures missing from this table will be added as they become available.
| Date | Speaker | Lecture Title | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 10, 2009 | John J. Thatamanil | How Many Ultimate Realities Are There? Religious Diversity and The Trinity | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
| February 28, 2013 | Lenn E. Goodman | Love: Does God Make a Difference? | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
| February 27, 2014 | Sharon M.K. Kugler | When We Do Not Know What We Do Not Know: Religiously Literate Leadership in an Multi-Faith World | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
| February 19, 2015 | Douglas Knight | Unavailable | |
| February 25, 2016 | Anand V. Taneja | Islamic Saints and Hindu Daughters: Kinship, Ethical Self-Fashioning, and Inter-religious Relations at Firoz Shah Kotla Dargah, Delhi | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
| March 2, 2017 | Stacey Floyd-Thomas | It’s a Surreal World After All: Social Sin and Sacred Silence in a Trumped Era | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
| February 22, 2018 | Paul Lim | Reformation, Race and Rights: An Underexplored Narrative of Modernity | |
| February 21, 2019 | Vanessa Beasley | Enough: Imagining a Political Culture of Worthiness in the United States | |
| February 20, 2020 | Tony K. Stewart | Parody and Persuasion: Narrative Strategies of Bengali Sufi Fictions | |
| February 25, 2021 | Joerg Rieger | Beyond Dialogue: Revisiting Interreligious Engagement, Truth, and Power | Video via Facebook |
| February 21, 2022 | Paul DeHart | Christ’s Cultural Ascent: J.Z. Smith, Ancient Religion, and the Cultic Apotheosis of Jesus | Video via Facebook |
| March 2, 2023 | Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh | More than a “Slave:” Enslaved Women, Religion, and New Histories of Black Humanity | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
| February 26, 2024 | Lynn Ramey | Legacies of Racial Bias in Medieval Literatures | Video via Vanderbilt’s YouTube channel |
| February 24, 2025 | David A. Michelson | Drunk with the Love of God: A Mesopotamian Chapter in the History of Wonder |