Washington University’s John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics hosted Dr. Melissa M. Wilcox, author of “Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody,” as the first speaker in the new lecture series “Reverent Irreverence: Parody, Religion, and Contemporary Politics,” Jan 18.
Uriel Abulof is an associate professor at Tel-Aviv University’s School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs. Abulof studies the politics of fear, happiness and hope, legitimation, social movements, nationalism, and ethnic conflicts. He has written extensively on the Middle East and Israel and is the recipient of the Young Scholar Award in Israel Studies. Abulof’s research is interdisciplinary, and in political science integrates the four main subfields. Foregrounding humanity’s uniqueness, Abulof introduces Political Existentialism to the social sciences.