TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The University of Alabama’s Religion in Culture Lecture Series will tackle the subject of “Creating a National Mythology: Religion, Scholarship, and the Postcolonial Moment in Germany, 1770-1848,” on Thursday, March 13.

The lecture will take place from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Forum room of the Ferguson Center (room 360) with a reception immediately following in the Anderson room across the hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. George Williamson, assistant professor of history at UA, will deliver the lecture. His teaching focuses on modern Germany and modern European cultural and intellectual movements. Williamson’s book, “The Longing for Myth in Germany: Culture, Religion, Politics from Romanticism to Nietzsche,” will appear from the University of Chicago Press next year.

The lecture will be followed by a brief response from Dr. Tim Murphy, assistant professor of religious studies. He joined the faculty in August 2002 after holding a prestigious Mellon Post Doctoral Fellowship at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Murphy’s interests range from Native American religions to continental philosophy. Most recently he authored “Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion” (SUNY 2001).