Spring Schedule 2012
juliuscrump on Mar 21 2012 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Workshop Description
This workshop seeks to address the ideas, meanings, and practices of the sacred within racially marginalized communities. In addition, this workshop also seeks to examine the way the social construction of race impacts how we think about religion. Moreover, this workshop acknowledges both an intellectual conviction to the exploration of religion among racialized peoples and a commitment to engaging with and clarifying the impact of religion in racialized communities. We convene this workshop to provide a forum for graduate students and faculty at the University of Chicago and area institutions to explore the dynamics and problems of race and religion. The workshop is cosponsored by Professors Dwight Hopkins, Omar McRoberts and Curtis Evans and coordinated by Julius Crump of the Divinity School.
This workshop will meet on a bi-weekly basis on Tuesdays at 4:30pm in Room 106 in Swift Hall of the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Here is a map to Swift Hall.
March 27
“African American Religions and the Intelligence State: Implications for Theories of Empire and Governmentality”
Sylvester Johnson, PhD.
Associate Professor of African American Studies and Religious Studies
Northwestern University
April 10
“William Grimes’ Free Narrative”
Rachel Watson
PhD. Student, Religion and Literature
University of Chicago Divinity School
April 24
“With a Steady Beat: Hip Hop Theory and the Legacy of Black Theology”
B. Chris Dorsey
PhD. Candidate, Theology
University of Chicago Divinity School
May 8
“Defecting from the Black Community: The Religious Politics of the Black Panther Party”
Kodi Roberts
PhD. Candidate, History
University of Chicago
May 22
“Dreading the Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery”
William D. Hart, PhD.
Professor of Religious Studies
University of North Carolina Greensboro
May 28
Co-sponsored with Theology Workshop (12 – 1:30pm)
“Civil Rights and Civil Disobedience as Theological Production”
Dwight Hopkins, PhD., PhD.
Professor Of Theology
University of Chicago Divinity School
Discussant
Barnabas Pusnur
PhD. Student, Theology
University of Chicago Divinity School
June 5
“Zakes Mda’s Mariology: Ekphrasis, Narrative, and the Forgiveness of Sins in The Madonna of Excelsior”
Joseph Ballan
PhD. Candidate, Philosophy of Religions
University of Chicago Divinity School
