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LEVINSON INVITED SPEAKER AT HARVARD AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITIES

GREENSBORO — Dr. Henry Levinson, professor of Religious Studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has been invited to speak during several upcoming lectures including the William James Lecture at Harvard, an anniversary celebration at Princeton and a lecture at the Highlands Institute for American Philosophical and Religious Thought.
 

Dr. Henry Levinson

The Harvard Divinity School invites an outstanding scholar each year to deliver the William James Lecture Series on Varieties of Religious Experience. This year, Levinson has received the honor of being the selected lecturer and will present his topic "Festive Naturalism and the Legends of the Jews", which will investigate the role that Jewish folklore plays among secular Jews, on May 3.

On June 1, Levinson has been invited to take part in a panel celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Center for the Study of American Religion and Culture at Princeton University. He will discuss his paper "On What it is Like to be Human." On June 11-12, he will also deliver a lecture and seminar on George Santayana, a 20th century philosopher, poet, critic of culture and literature and best-selling novelist, at the Highlands Institute, Highlands, NC.

A UNCG faculty member since 1982, Levinson's research and scholarly interests have focused on American religious thought. He has published and edited numerous essays and articles in various well-known scholarly journals and authored three books. His latest publication is an essay (authored with Jonathan Malino of Guilford College) entitled "Who's Afraid of a Bee Sting: Gellman's Experience of God and the Rationality of Theism" published by Hebrew University Press, July 1999. Levinson also holds many honors including being named the William James Lecturer at Harvard University; Mellon Faculty Fellow in Humanities, Harvard University; University Research Excellence Leadership; Research Excellence Award, UNCG; and Fellow at the National Humanities Center. Levinson has also been heavily involved with various boards and committees in Greensboro and around the state.

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