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X-WR-CALNAME:God\, Sex\, and Politics in the Works of Leonard Cohen
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DESCRIPTION:A guest lecture by Marcia Pally\, part of The Secret Chord Proj
 ect: Exploring the Religious in Popular Music Through the Works of Bob Dyl
 an and Leonard Cohen.\n\nProfessor Marcia Pally teaches at New York Univer
 sity and held the Mercator Guest Professorship in the theology department 
 at Humboldt University-Berlin\, where she is an annual guest professor and
  member of the Center for Interreligious Theology and Religious Studies an
 d the Berlin Institute for Public Theology. In 2019-2020 she was a Fellow 
 at The Center for Theological Inquiry (Princeton). Her research interests 
 are culture\, religion\, and politics as well as the intersection of cultu
 re and language. She is the author of several books in each area\,  includ
 ing: White Evangelicals and Right-wing Populism: HOW DID WE GET HERE? (202
 2)\; From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God\, Sex\, and Politics in the 
 Work of Leonard Cohen (2021)\; Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics\, Poli
 tics\, and Theologies of Relationality (2016)\; Mimesis and Sacrifice (201
 9\, Ed.)\; The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good  
 (2011). Prof. Pally was twice a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study
 -Berlin and spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2010. She has been awarde
 d many grants\, including from the German Research Foundation\,* the Germa
 n Academic Exchange Service\, among others. Prof. Pally has given talks an
 d lectures at wide range of universities and professional associations\, a
 mong\, them Oxford University\; the Center for Theological Inquiry (Prince
 ton)\; Institut d’études européennes et internationales du Luxembourg\
 ; John F. Kennedy School for North American Studies\, Free University-Berl
 in\; Centre of Theology and Philosophy\, The Cato Institute\; Hebrew Union
  College\, among many others.\n\nThe Secret Chord Project explores the inf
 luence of religious concepts and imagery in popular music\, with a particu
 lar focus on Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen\, two of the most influential sin
 ger-songwriters of our time. This project brings together leading scholars
  specializing in Dylan and Cohen\, individuals who had personal connection
 s to them\, musicians\, songwriters\, as well as the Director of the inter
 nationally recognized Institute for Bob Dylan Studies at the University of
  Tulsa. These events offer rare opportunities for both undergraduate and g
 raduate students across campus communities—as well as Rochester’s broa
 der community—to engage with them and their scholarship.\n\nSponsored by
  the Department of Religion & Classics\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, t
 he Humanities Center\, the Arthur Satz Department of Music\, the Departmet
 n of English\, the Institute for Popular Music\, and the Eastman School of
  Music.
GEO:43.128881;-77.629774
LOCATION:Wilson Commons\, Gowen Room\, 2nd Floor
SUMMARY:God\, Sex\, and Politics in the Works of Leonard Cohen
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/marcia-pally-guest-lecture
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