Please mark your calendars for April 19th. Graduate students from Religious Studies, History, and The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies are hosting a conference sponsored by Page-Barbour Workshop, Forum on Religion and Democracy, The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, and Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute entitled Blackness Beyond Protestantism: A Critical Conversation Between Religion and Black Studies.

There will be two graduate student workshops at 10am:

Black Cartographies and Placemaking, Minor Hall 110

• Kelsey Moore (John Hopkins University)
• Michelle Bostic (UVA)
• Brianna Doe (UVA)

Blackness, Aesthetics, and the Arts, Wilson 301

• Anderson Moss (UVA)
• Brenton Brock (Howard University)
• Rebecca Wilcox (Princeton Seminary)
• Antavius Franklin (Fordham University)

There will be two scholar panels in Minor Hall 110 (Livestream available on @WoodsonUVA Youtube Channel): 

1pm - Art and Undoing 

• Jessica Davenport (Colgate University)
• Cecilio Cooper (Folger Institute Long-term Fellow)
• Ashon Crawley (University of Virginia)
• Joseph Winters (Duke University)

3pm - Blackness, Epistemology, and Religion 

• Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh (Stanford University)
• Kai Parker (University of Virginia)
• Marcus Harvey (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Oludamini Ogunnaike (University of Virginia)