Center for the Study of Religion, Culture and Society

The lecture, “Living with the Dead in Hindu South India,” draws on Allocco’s current ethnographic research project and was sponsored by the Asia-Orient Institute.

The director of the Elon Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society joins the governing body of international scholarly society.

The journal’s double issue, which includes twelve peer-reviewed articles, focuses on the ethnography of India across the longue durée and includes several generations of scholars.

Robert P. Jones, CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and author of "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity," spoke to the Elon community virtually about his most recent book.

George Abraham, a Holocaust survivor and Elon grandparent, shared his story with the Elon community in a Facebook Live event on Nov. 5.

“Surviving the Holocaust-An Evening with George Abraham” will take place online November 5th at 7:30 pm.

Evan A. Gatti, associate professor of art history, presented “The Vercelli Rotolus: Images of the Acts of the Apostles the Arts of Imitation” at the conference, which was organized by the Center for Iconographic Studies and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, the Société des Bollandistes (Bruxelles), and Hagiotheca: Croatian Hagiography Society (Zagreb).

Nine Elon faculty presented their scholarship at the Association of American Colleges & Universities 2020 Virtual Conference on Global Learning.

Allocco will serve for a five-year term alongside Milda Ališauskienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) and lead a women's mentoring initiative among members of the Women Scholars Network.

The Service Learning Faculty Scholars program for the first time will include two cohorts of faculty and staff members ready to further integrate the service-learning pedagogy into the Elon curriculum.