Program of Events:
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9:30-9:45 |
Welcome & Introduction
Dr. Vicki L. Brennan, University of Vermont |
| 9:45-10:30 | “Marking Sacred Space in the Jamaican Dead Yard: Dance and the Invocation of Ancestral Presence“
Dr. Yanique Hume, University of the West Indies, |
| 10:30-10:45 | “Religion and Race in Post-Revolutionary Cuba”
Isabel Handados |
| 10:45-11:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00-11:45 | “Between Black Sacred Matter(s) and Smattered Sacred(s): Encountering Black Church Arson in the Museum“
Dr. Todne Thomas, Harvard University |
| 11:45-NOON | DISCUSSION |
| NOON-1:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 1:00-1:45 | “White Slaves and Other Empowered Black Atlantic Things”
Dr. J. Lorand Matory, Duke University |
| 1:45-2:00 | “Yemayá on Display: Post-Colonial Contact Zones in the Museum”
Thomas Mackell |
| 2:00-2:30 | “Reflections on Spirited Things”
Janie Cohen, Director, UVM Fleming Museum |
| 2:30-3:00 | ROUNDTABLE: Responses to “Spirited Things” |
| 3:15-3:30 | DISCUSSION |
Free and open to the public.
For more information contact Dr. Vicki L. Brennan (vicki.brennan@uvm.edu)