Religious Studies
The Department of Religious Studies brings a variety of perspectives to the study of a significant aspect of human existence: religion. At HWS, the study of religion is intrinsically multicultural and interdisciplinary as students learn through different academic approaches like historical, ethical, political and theological angles.
Religious Studies NEWS
The Wannsee Conference
As part of the HWS Human Rights and Genocide Symposium, Matthias Hass, an expert on the 1942 Wannsee Conference, will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7 in the…
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Life, Death, Meaning and Service
For 10 weeks last fall, students in Associate Professor of Religious Studies John Krummel’s “Death and Dying” course drove to Seneca Lake Terrace, a nearby assisted living facility, to meet…
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Abbe Center Hosts Holocaust Film Director
The Abbe Center for Jewish Life will present the documentary The Children of Chabannes, which tells the story of a group of French villagers who saved the lives of more…
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Rosenbaum ’86 Named Jurist of the Year
The New York State Supreme Court Judges Association presented the Honorable Matthew A. Rosenbaum ’86, the supervising Judge of the New York Supreme Court’s 7th Judicial District, with the Jurist of…
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First-Year Seminar Symposium
Designed to build a foundation for skills in critical thinking and communication at the Colleges, the First-Year Seminar (FSEM) ranges in topics from fictional worlds and semiotics, to political power…
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