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Lecture 3 - 2020: African American Religious History Series: Black Liberation and the Sin of Slavery with Professor Cona Marshall In-Person
Black Liberation and the Sin of Slavery
Lecture 3 - 2020: African American Religious History Series
with Professor Cona Marshall
Conā Marshall is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester's Frederick Douglas Institute. Dr. Marshall obtained a Master’s of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School and a Ph.D. in African American and African Studies with a concentration in Cultural Rhetoric(s) from Michigan State University. Conā is a womanist rhetoric scholar who engages constellating systems of race, rhetoric, religion, and gender. Her most recent publications explore relationships between hip hop and religiosity—more notably investigating meaning-making strategies that make claims and support for varying religious ethics—as evidence in their most recent publication, “I’m So Self-Conscious: Kanye West’s Rhetorical Wrestling with Theodicy and Nihilism,” in the Journal of Hip Hop Studies’ special issue I Gotta Testify: Kanye West, Hip Hop, and the Church.
- Date:
- Monday, February 17, 2020
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Central - Kusler-Cox Auditorium
- Library:
- Central Library
- Categories:
- Department - Arts & Literature Lecture