Art and Devotion: New Accounts of Religious Culture, Race, and Gender in the US

Date
Mar 25, 2023, 8:30 am – 6:00 pm
Lewis Library 120

Speakers

Audience
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
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This symposium is the second installment of the Princeton Graduate Book Forum.

A Symposium on Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century, by Vaughn A. Booker and Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg Brooklyn, by Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

  • 8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast and Registration
  • 9:30-9:45 Opening Remarks: Wallace Best, Princeton University
  • 9:45-11:45 First Panel: “Lifeblood of the Parish” – Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
    • Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, University of Miami
    • Erica Robles-Anderson, New York University
    • Katherine Dugan, Springfield College
    • Chair: William Stell, Princeton University
  • 12:00-1:30 Lunch Break
  • 1:30-3:30 Second Panel: “Life Every Voice and Swing” – Vaughn Booker
    • Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
    • Lerone A. Martin, Stanford University
    • Richard Brent Tuner, University of Iowa
    • Chair: Mélena Laudig, Princeton University
  • 3:30-4:15 Break
  • 4:15-4:45 Symposium Summary – Jonathan Lee Walton, Princeton Theological Seminary
  • 4:45-6:00 Closing Reception
Event Type
Signature Event
Symposium
Event Category
AAS Co-Sponsored Event

 

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