Thursday, April 5, 4-6pm, OSU Faculty Club [Grand Lounge], 181 S. Oval Dr.

The Center for the Study of Religion presents a Religious Studies Symposium: “Taking the UFO Phenomenon Seriously, that is, Religiously.”

The fourth in a series of events hosted by the OSU Center for the Study of Religion during the 2017-2018 academic year on the theme of “Religion, Narrative, and Media” will present a conversation between Jeffrey Kripal (Rice University) and Diana Pasulka (University of North Carolina Wilmington).

“Biological Gods: Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies”

• Jeffrey J. Kripal (J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University)

“The Incarnational Technological Sacred: The Case of the Crashed UFO Artifact”

• Diana Pasulka (Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Carolina Wilmington)

• Moderator: Sarah Iles Johnston (Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of Religion, The Ohio State University)

All events in this series begin at 4pm at the OSU Faculty Club and are free and open to the public.