BU scholar to discuss Anti-Semitism, apocalyptic expectation, and Islam12:00AM / Thursday, February 19, 2004
Richard Landes, a prominent scholar on Apocalypse, will speak at Williams College on “Anti-Semitism and Apocalyptic Expectation: The Case of Islam at the Turn of the Year 2000” on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. in Griffin Hall, room 3. His lecture is part of a year-long series on anti-Semitism sponsored by the Gaudino Forum, the Bronfman Advisory Committee, the Wiener Lecture Fund, and The Jewish Studies Program.
Landes is the co-founder of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, which is dedicated to tracking, archiving, and interpreting the manifestations of apocalyptic expectation in and around the year 2000. His lecture at Williams will focus on anti-Semitism and Islam at the turn of the year 2000.
The author and editor of several books, Landes recently edited a collection of essays titled "The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Studies in the Mutation of European Culture." He is the author of "Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034," and the editor of "The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Responses in France around the Year 1000."
He is currently working on a two-volume study on the role of Apocalyptic expectations in Western culture from the origins of Christianity to the present, provisionally titled "While God Tarried: Disappointed Millennialism and the Genealogy of the West."
Landes regularly teaches courses in “The Dawn of Europe,” “Feudal France,” “Medieval History,” “Heresy and Persecution,” “Millenarian Expectations in Western History,” “Communications Revolutions and the Making of Global Culture,” and “European Popular Culture.”
Landes received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1971. He then traveled to Paris, attending the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1971-72. Landes completed his education at Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1984.
Landes is associate professor of history and director of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University.
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