Virginia Colloquium in American Religions

The Virginia Colloquium in American Religion (VCAR) is an on-going forum for conversation and collaboration for faculty and graduate students interested in the history of religion in America. It meets several times each semester to workshop works in progress or discuss new scholarship in the field, often with participation from colleagues in the UVA History department or visiting scholars. 

If you would like to be added to the email list and receive Zoom links for these events, please contact Maxwell Pingeon at vcar@virginia.edu

Fall 2020 Schedule (on Zoom)

9/23 Melanie Pace dissertation prospectus workshop: “Magic at the Margins: Race, Class, and Metaphysical Religion in Rural Appalachia."

10/7 Kai Parker on the Job Market Diversity Statement

10/14 Special Guest John T. McGreevy, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at Notre Dame University, will be sharing a chapter(s) from his forthcoming book on global Catholicism, forthcoming by Norton.

10/21 Book club on K. Healan Gaston’s Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy, published by University of Chicago Press (2019).

10/28 Nuts-and-bolts workshop: Teaching with Tech

11/4 Max Pingeon’s as-yet-untitled dissertation prospectus workshop.

11/11 Pete Cajka from Notre Dame’s Cushwa Institute on his forthcoming Follow Your Conscience: The American Catholic Church, War, Sex, and the Sixties, published by University of Chicago Press.

11/18 Claudrena Harold on her new book When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras, published by University of Illinois Press (2020).

11/25 Nuts-and-Bolts workshop on CVs: How to Build and Maintain Them