Year-Round Programming
AAR produces and sponsors webinAARs every month on topics related to the academic study and teaching of religion. These webinAARs may be single-session events, part of a series, or components of AAR certificate programs. WebinAARs are hosted by AAR committees, program units, or in collaboration with other academic and professional development organizations. Live WebinAARs are open to the public. Recordings typically require an AAR membership to view and are available to watch below.
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November 10, 2025
Religious Studies Department and Program Closures: A Strategy Session with AAR President Leela Prasad
This listening and strategizing session led by AAR President Leela Prasad is part of a continuing series responding to the accelerating closure of religious studies departments and programs in the U.S. academy.
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November 14, 2025
Religion and Conflict: Case Studies from Ukraine
As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar features a panel of globally renowned experts in Orthodox Studies. This roundtable discussion explores the intersections of religion, war, and geopolitics in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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November 7, 2025
Buddhist Feminist Historiography: A Conversation with Dr. Stephanie Balkwill
In this webinar, five scholars of Buddhist Studies with varying area expertise who all share an interest in historiographical methodologies and feminist approaches engage Dr. Balkwill’s book. Dr. Balkwill responds.
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October 29, 2025
Enhance Course Accessibility with AI — A Proactive Approach (2025 Inclusive Pedagogy Series #3)
This webinAAR explores practical methods for leveraging AI to enhance the accessibility of your online courses.
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November 4, 2025
The Role of Religion in Today’s Democratic Crises: Advancing Public Understanding
“Jesus saves” banners at the January 6th insurrection. Evangelical elevation of President Trump as God’s elect. Claims of religious freedom used to justify discrimination. Scriptural “prooftexts” wielded to strip individuals of civil rights. Growing affection in religious communities for authoritarian models of government. Religion is playing significant roles in contemporary crises of democracy. How is it perceived in the public imagination and how can we as scholars advance public understanding of the stakes?
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October 31, 2025
The World of the Bahá’í Faith
As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar, co-sponsored by the Bahá’í Studies Unit of the AAR and the Corinne True Center for Bahá’í History, provides an overview of the recent publication The World of the Bahá’í Faith (Routledge, 2022), where 32 authors produced 51 chapters on Bahá’í scripture, leading figures, history, and teachings about a variety of mystic, personal, and social subjects.
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October 31, 2025
Theology, Religion, and the Modern University
As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar examines the complex relationship between modern universities and academic theology in the nineteenth century, and its implications for the study of religion in twenty-first-century universities.
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October 24, 2025
Religion, Race, and Public Scholarship
As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar features four scholars of Asian American religions to examine the intersections of religion, race, and public scholarship in the United States. Participants will reflect on how their research and teaching navigate the shifting boundaries of academic freedom and free speech, institutional commitments and constraints, and the role of academic research and publishing in the current political economy.
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October 17, 2025
The Future of Scholarship: Religion and Human Rights
As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar explores the future of scholarship regarding the intersection of human rights and religion. In our complex world where human rights are constantly being violated by religion and particular religious ideologies but some of the most staunch supporters of human rights are also religious practitioners and professionals, our panelists will discuss what the field will look like in the future.
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September 26, 2025
Teaching with Native American and Indigenous Religions on Stolen Land
The webinar is structured as a conversation with a moderator and four Indigenous teacher-scholars from various career stages and disciplines, around how theories and methods from Native American and Indigenous studies can offer critical interventions to responsible pedagogy.