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DESCRIPTION:2022 Birks Lecture is part of School of Religious Studies 75th 
 Anniversary.\n\nProfessor Tomoko Masuzawa will speak on\, Queen in the Att
 ic: Theology and the University. What Was the University for?\n\nWas theol
 ogy the “queen of the sciences” and the highest authority in the medieval 
 university? When we consider what is known about the earliest universities
  that came into existence in the 12th and 13th centuries\, it becomes read
 ily apparent that this familiar sobriquet stems from certain phrases for s
 elf-promotion\, not a description of reality. Surveying broadly what today
 ’s historians of early universities have to tell us\, we may now adjust ou
 r image of the institution\, taking a more serious look at the university’
 s origin and its raison d’être. Accordingly\, it is necessary to correct o
 ur received notion of the place of theology in the medieval academy. And w
 e may start asking ourselves how we\, the moderns\, have been so consisten
 tly mistaken.\n\nTomoko Masuzawa is Professor Emerita of History and of Co
 mparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Born and educated in T
 okyo\, she holds an MA (Yale) and a Ph.D. (UC Santa Barbara) in Religious 
 Studies. She is a scholar of European intellectual history\, with a specia
 l interest in modern discourses on religion and the history of human scien
 ces. She previously taught in the Religious Studies Department at the Univ
 ersity of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. Her publications include In Search
  of Dreamtime: the Quest for the Origin of Religion (1993)\, The Invention
  of World Religions: Or\, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the L
 anguage of Pluralism (2005)\, “The Bible as Literature?—Note on a Litigiou
 s Ferment of the Concept” (2013)\, “Striating Difference: From ‘Ceremonies
  and Customs’ to World Religions” (2014)\, and “Theology\, the Fairy Queen
 ” (2021). She has held a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship as well as a mem
 bership at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton\, NJ).\n
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LOCATION:Birks Heritage Chapel\, Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 
 2A7\, 3520 rue University
SUMMARY:Birks Lecture Series: Professor Tomoko Masuzawa
URL:/religiousstudies/channels/event/birks-lecture-ser
 ies-professor-tomoko-masuzawa-341594
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