Join the Martin-Springer Institute for an event in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024. MSI presents “Schindler’s List, Apartheid’s Legacy: From Poland to South Africa” by Tali Nates, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center, South Africa on Tuesday January 30, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. in Cline Auditorium on the NAU Flagstaff Campus. 
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Comparative Study of Religions
Digital outreach internship opportunity at the NAU Art Museums for spring 2024
The NAU Art Museums is now accepting applications for internships in Digital Outreach for spring semester 2024!
About the NAU Art Museums:
Our internship program gives students interested in a museum career meaningful, real-world experience working with museum professionals on the Flagstaff campus of Northern Arizona University. The Art Museums feature the Margaret Hettel Weiss Museum, a permanent collection… Read more
Professor Paul Donnelly presented at the 51st Annual Conference in South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin in October
Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Paul Donnelly presented a paper, “The Buddhist Goddess Kurukullā and her Rituals of Subjugation” at the 51st Annual Conference in South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin last month.
Abstract: The tantric Buddhist goddess Kurukullā is perhaps the most important of the tantric deities of subjugation (vaśya, vaśīkaraṇa). Kurukullā has been propitiated across the tantric Buddhist world and is especially important in Tibetan cultural areas, with all… Read more
CCS Virtual Internship Showcase Dec. 8 from 3-4 p.m.
Please join CCS for a celebration of our student interns at our virtual fall 2023 Internship Showcase from 3-4 p.m. MST on Dec. 8, 2023! The showcase will feature presentations from CCS majors and minors with internships at the Museum of Northern Arizona, NAU Art Museums, Riordan Mansion, and more. Contact the CCS Internship Coordinator Dr. Diana Coleman to RSVP or for any questions.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://nau.zoom.us/j/82398046893?pwd=dzU4RU5rUFZNc1VOQ08vdjBWcHA4UT09
Meeting ID: 823 9804 6893
Password: 609951
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CCS Professor Dr. Björn Krondorfer lecture at Coconino Center for the Arts on Nov. 30, 2023
CCS Professor and Director of the Martin-Springer Institute Dr. Björn Krondorfer will reflect on ways of “seeing” objects and photography in violent-traumatizing contexts in his lecture “The Aesthetics and Ethics of Representation” at the Coconino Center for the Arts on Thursday November 30 at 6:30 p.m. The talk is part of the current exhibition (in partnership with the Martin-Springer Institute): El Sueño Americano / The American Dream, on display until December… Read more
Faculty news: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi invited presentation at Rutgers in October
Congratulations to CCS Professor of Asian Studies and Art History Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi on her recent invited presentation at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on Oct. 17, 2023! Dr. Gulácsi’s presentation, “The Life Cycle of the Sacred: Manichaeans Artifacts and their Curious Preservation at Buddhist Archaeological Sites across Medieval East Central China,” focused on a unique body of text and art that was produced for the purposes of Manichaean communities between the mid 8th and early 11th… Read more