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Department of World Languages and and Cultures faculty organize events for indigenous resistance in Latin America
May 17, 2021
The three webinars held during April covered a variety of topics.
#ElonGrad 2021 spotlight: Mackenzie Martinez, anthropology and women’s, gender & sexualities studies
May 14, 2021
In this series, Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences is shining the spotlight on distinguished members of the Class of 2021 from a wide array of disciplines.
Student leaders honored with 2021 Omicron Delta Kappa Awards
April 30, 2021
Elon University students and a staff member were recognized for their leadership with awards sponsored by Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society.
Former NBA Player Jason Collins to give virtual keynote on March 28
March 17, 2021
Jason Collins, the first openly gay player in major league sports, is the keynote speaker for the 2nd Annual Men's Leadership for Gender Equity Conference - an event focused on engaging, empowering, and educating men about gender equity.
Social justice symposium focuses on effect of pandemic across society, continents
December 4, 2020
The symposium took place across four webinars this fall and was organized by faculty members from the Department of World Languages and Cultures.
Amy Allocco publishes a co-edited double issue of the journal ‘Fieldwork in Religion’
November 9, 2020
The journal’s double issue, which includes twelve peer-reviewed articles, focuses on the ethnography of India across the longue durée and includes several generations of scholars.
Amy Allocco publishes an article on Hindu death, deification, and domestication narratives in The Journal of Hindu Studies
October 26, 2020
Allocco’s article draws on more than a decade of ethnographic research and interviews with one Hindu family in South India to explore the hermeneutical issues – what Allocco calls “interpretive ambivalence” – that arise from narrative multiplicity.
Amy Allocco is named co-coordinator of the International Association for the History of Religion Women Scholars Network
October 12, 2020
Allocco will serve for a five-year term alongside Milda Ališauskienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) and lead a women's mentoring initiative among members of the Women Scholars Network.
Pandemic, Crisis and Social Justice Symposium begins Wed., Sept. 30
September 25, 2020
The four virtual lectures by scholars and activists were coordinated by the Department of World Languages and Cultures, El Centro, and programs of Latin American Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, International and Global Studies, and the Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies.
Rochelle Ford to moderate town hall on diverse voices of Black and White women
September 18, 2020
The dean of the School of Communications will lead a virtual panel discussion on Monday, Sept. 21, addressing issues and findings outlined in the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated’s new study, “In Our Voices."