Join us tomorrow evening - July 27th at 6:30pm at Union Theological Seminary - for a conversation on "Keeping Care and Community" in times like these.
Upcoming Event: The Afterlives of Amazing Grace (April 10-11, 2017 @ Yale University))
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The Afterlives of Amazing Grace: Religion and the Making of Black Music in a Post-Soul Age
Tuesday, April 11 | 10:30 - 4:45 pm
ISM Great Hall
409 Prospect St., New Haven
Free; no tickets or reservations required
Organized by ISM Fellow Josef Sorett and Ambre Dromgoole, MAR ‘17
The daylong symposium offers an invitation to consider a bundle of questions associated with the entangled trajectories of contemporary Christianity and black popular music — from Gospel, to Praise and Worship, and Hip Hop — in the years since Aretha Franklin’s chart-topping album, Amazing Grace (1972). Bringing together academics, artists, journalists, and industry leaders for a one-day public dialogue at Yale University, we will consider developments—from the naming and overlap between different musical genres, the blurring of racial lines and blending of church traditions, and the emergence of new technologies and media forms—in Christian music, the cultural marketplace, and black churches in the post-Soul Era.
To set the longer historical context for this dialogue, we will begin the evening of April 10 by reflecting on the early years of Gospel music with a screening and discussion of the classic documentary Say Amen, Somebody (1982).
DAY 1: Film Screening
"Say Amen, Somebody"
Monday, April 10 @ 7:30 pm
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.
DAY 2:
Tuesday, April 11 | 10:30 - 4:45 pm
Featuring a Keynote Lecture: Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University)
ISM Great Hall, 409 Prospect St.
Full schedule and more info here: The Afterlives of Amazing Grace
Beyond Stonewall Symposium at Princeton University
I'm looking forward to participating in a symposium on "New Histories of Religion and Sexuality" in America" this Saturday at Princeton University. The event is organized and hosted by Wallace Best and features two great new books: Anthony Petro's After the Wrath of God and Heather White's Reforming Sodom.
Here is the schedule for the day and, most importantly, its not too late to REGISTER HERE!!!!
Saturday March 11, 2017 – Lewis Library 120
8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:30-9:45 Opening Remarks- Wallace Best, Princeton University
9:45-11:45 First Panel: “Reforming Sodom” – Heather White
Rebecca Davis, University of Delaware
Gillian Frank, Princeton University
Josef Sorett, Columbia University
Chair: Jessica Delgado, Princeton University
12:00-1:30 Lunch – Brush Gallery
1:30-3:30 Second Panel: “After the Wrath of God” – Anthony Petro
Bethany Moreton, Dartmouth College
David Johnson, University of South Florida
Lynne Gerber, Harvard University
Chair: Leslie Ribovich, Princeton University
3:30-4:15 Break
4:15-6:00 Symposium Summary – Kathryn Lofton, Yale University