Two videos about Spirited Things!

Vicki Brennan on Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic

We are grateful to RETN and Across the Fence for their coverage of the exhibition. Get a preview of the exhibition and learn more about the objects on display by viewing these videos. You will also hear from […]

Film Series begins this week!

Vicki Brennan on Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic

This week we also kick off the Video Vodou Film series! Join us for a screening of the film A Pig’s Tale with a lively discussion to follow! October 17, 6:30-9:30 PM @ CCM Bulding rm 305 (Alumni […]

This week: Dr. Elizabeth McAlister speaks on "Power Objects"

Vicki Brennan on Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic

The next “Spirited Things” event will take place this Thursday, October 19 at 5:00PM Featuring Dr. Elizabeth McAlister, Chair of African American Studies and Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University, speaking […]

THIS WEEK! Two events featuring Haitian Vodou Priestess Manmi Maude

Vicki Brennan on Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic

There will be two events at the Fleming Museum this week featuring Marie Maude Evans, Chief Priestess (Manbo Asogwe) of The Sosyete Nago Temple of Jacmel, Haiti, and Mattapan, Massachusetts.

TODAY!! Prof. Rowland Abiodun @ 4pm

Vicki Brennan on Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic

The next lecture in the Spirited Things series takes place today at 4pm in the Livak Ballroom, UVM Davis Center. We hope you can join us!

Related Events in the UVM Lane Series

Vicki Brennan on Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic

The UVM Lane Series includes two concerts this season with performers and genres whose music is connected to the cultures represented in the Spirited Things exhibition. So exciting! From the Dominican Republic: […]

"Spirited" Opening at Fleming

Vicki Brennan on Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic

“Spirited Things” is the main story on the UVM homepage! Read the excellent story about the collaboration between Marsh Professor J. Lorand Matory, the staff of the Fleming Museum, and Religion professor Vicki […]

TOMORROW is the Big Day!

Vicki Brennan on Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic

The Spirited Things exhibition officially opens TOMORROW! There are also two exciting events happening this week: –On Tuesday, September 26 at 4pm, Professor J. Lorand Matory will deliver a lecture on […]

The "Fetish" Revisited: African Gods in the Western Museum

Vicki Brennan on Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic

Next week!

Ideas on Tap: Sacred Objects/Secular Spaces

Vicki Brennan on Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic

September 13 @ 7:00 pm ArtsRiot How are sacred objects transformed when they enter the museum? What does it mean to collect and exhibit religious and sacred objects connected to living peoples and […]

Office Hours with Dr. J. Lorand Matory

Vicki Brennan on Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic

Interested in learning more about the Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic? In this video James Marsh Professor-at-Large, J. Lorand Matory, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University discusses some of t […]

Welcome!

Vicki Brennan on Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic

Here you will find information about the lectures and other events that will take place in Burlington, Vermont in connection with the Fleming Museum’s exhibition Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black […]

Senior Spotlight: Rebecca Friedlander '17

Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM

Rebecca Friedlander in the Senior Spotlight: a series on our graduating seniors Why did you major in Religion? I majored in religion because I took a world religions class in high school […]

Responding to the 2016 US Elections

Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM

The outcome of the 2016 Presidential election was shocking to some, and a surprise to most. However, it is probably not a surprise to anyone who knows us that the REL@UVM faculty have things to say about the […]

Trump 2016: The View from Islamic Studies

Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM

By Professor Ilyse Morgenstein-Fuerst  It’s no secret that Donald Trump ran a campaign that stoked Islamophobic sentiments (in addition, of course, to anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican, misogynistic, ableist and <a […]

Pan-Indigenous Pipeline Religion

Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM

By Professor Todne Thomas Chipumuro In my introductory Religion and Globalization course, our final unit explores what anthropologist Thomas Csordas terms “pan-indigenous religion” or “the surprising […]

What now? Scholarly Work in the Wake of Trump's Election

Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM

By Professor Vicki L. Brennan In the days following the election I felt as though I were in a fog, upset about what seemed to be a validation of the role that misogyny and racism had played in the election, […]

Revisiting the Soundscape Concept

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

What is the soundscape of our lives? What does the soundscape convey about the time and place in which we live? R. Murray Schafer: “We must seek a way to make environmental acoustics a positive study program. […]

John Cage & Fluxus

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

John Cage’s Water Walk:   https://youtu.be/Yybn6iKmYdQ   !–more– Fluxus was an international network of artists, active primarily in the 1960s, interested in overcoming boundaries between […]