POSTPONED: Public Research Talk: Thoreau’s Solar and Lunar Philosophy, with Charles Stang and Sarah Schorr
Due to the forecasted snowstorm and in the interest of everyone’s safety, this event has been rescheduled for Monday, March 23. We hope you will be able to join us then. Updated details will follow.
Join us on January 26 at 11:30am. Charles Stang and Sarah Schorr will discuss Thoreau’s extraordinary encounters with, and meditations on, the sun and the moon, and the significance of those for their ongoing book collaboration, Skywater.
CHARLES STANG joined the Faculty of Divinity in 2008. His research and teaching focus on Christianity in late antiquity and, more broadly, philosophy and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world. Stang's current projects include a book on daemons in ancient philosophy, translations of both Evagrius Ponticus’ Letter to Melania and Henry Corbin’s Le paradoxe du monothéisme, and an edited volume on “Platonism as a Living Tradition.”
In 2017, he became the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at HDS.
SARAH SCHORR is an American artist and researcher with a studio based in Denmark. A captivation with light, water, and modes of embodied contemplation runs through her work. Schorr’s art has been widely exhibited since her first solo show at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City. Preparations are underway for upcoming shows at the Blanche Hoschedé-Monet Museum (France) and Imago Lisboa (Portugal) in parallel with the publication of her new book, Ephemeral Field Journal: Climate + Love in Claude Monet’s Garden (Kehrer Verlag, 2025). Her work is also currently installed in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Since earning her PhD in media studies (2017), Schorr’s research has focused on the continual evolution and transformation of photographic methods and theory in relation to emerging media.
Join us on January 26 at 11:30am. Charles Stang and Sarah Schorr will discuss Thoreau’s extraordinary encounters with, and meditations on, the sun and the moon, and the significance of those for their ongoing book collaboration, Skywater.
CHARLES STANG joined the Faculty of Divinity in 2008. His research and teaching focus on Christianity in late antiquity and, more broadly, philosophy and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world. Stang's current projects include a book on daemons in ancient philosophy, translations of both Evagrius Ponticus’ Letter to Melania and Henry Corbin’s Le paradoxe du monothéisme, and an edited volume on “Platonism as a Living Tradition.”
In 2017, he became the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at HDS.
SARAH SCHORR is an American artist and researcher with a studio based in Denmark. A captivation with light, water, and modes of embodied contemplation runs through her work. Schorr’s art has been widely exhibited since her first solo show at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City. Preparations are underway for upcoming shows at the Blanche Hoschedé-Monet Museum (France) and Imago Lisboa (Portugal) in parallel with the publication of her new book, Ephemeral Field Journal: Climate + Love in Claude Monet’s Garden (Kehrer Verlag, 2025). Her work is also currently installed in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Since earning her PhD in media studies (2017), Schorr’s research has focused on the continual evolution and transformation of photographic methods and theory in relation to emerging media.
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