The Troubles I’ve Seen: Religious Dimensions of Slavery & Its Afterlives

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In collaboration with the National Museum of African American History & Culture, Howard University Divinity School, University of Liberia

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The 400-years legacy of chattel slavery, marked by the arrival of twenty or more Africans in August 1619, and through its official abolition in 1865, has produced reverberations, issues, problems, and consequences, which continue to require critical reflection and action. This is a follow-up to the “Colonization, Christianity, and Commerce:The Afterlives of Slavery in the trans-Atlantic World,” an international conference held in Monrovia, Liberia, October 17-19, 2022. This second conference seeks to interrogate two interrelated questions: <ul><li>How do we assess and respond to the continued effects of enslavement in both contemporary American democratic life and transnationally? </li><li>How can the often-ignored religious dimensions of slavery and its afterlives help us to interrogate, critique, and examine the profound consequences of enslavement for contemporary politics, aesthetics, cultural, and religious life?</li></ul>For more information, email the conference conveners at afterlivesconference@ptsem.edu or visit https://afterlivesconference.ptsem.edu/.T﻿o book a room in the recommended conference hotel, <a href="https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/dcasggi-ptsac-6bbb2461-4878-448e-b53e-560a375a39e1/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">click here</a>.

'A Spirit too Bold and Daring for a Slave:’ Lineage, Legacy, and Legitimizing History

Presented by Daina Berry
Dr. Berry is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Berry is an historian, a “scholar of the enslaved,” and a specialist on gender and slavery as well as Black women’s history in the United States. She is the award-winning author/editor of six books. Her most recent publication, A Black Women’s History of the United States, co-authored with Kali Nicole Gross, is an empowering testament of Black women’s ability to build communities in the face of oppression, and their continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. Professor Berry completed her BA, MA, and PhD in African American Studies and U.S. History at the University of California Los Angeles.

The Afterlife of Slavery in Africa: Unforeseen Religious and Sociocultural Consequences

Presented by Jacob Kehinde Olupona
Jacob Kehinde Olupona is Professor of African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University. He has authored and edited several books, including City of 201 Gods: Ile Ife In Time, Space and The Imagination (University of California Press, 201) which won the Harvard University Cabot Fellowship, 2012-2013. He has won several grants and fellowships and is the recipient of four Honorary doctorates including from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. In 2008, he was conferred with the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) by President Shehu Yar’Adua for his scholarship in the humanities. He also received the American Academy of Religion prestigious Award in the Public Understanding of Religion in 2018 and was was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.

Laying on of Hands: Slavery’s Sins &amp; Divine HealingPresented by Yolanda PierceYolanda Pierce is Dean and the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair &amp; Professor of Religion and Literature at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee. Her scholarly research specialties include African American religious history, womanist theology, and race and religion. She holds degrees from Cornell University and Princeton University. An accomplished administrator in higher education, Pierce also served as the Founding Director of the Center for African American Religious Life at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). A widely published author, she has written several books, essays, and articles for academic and trade journals. In addition to her teaching and academic scholarship, Pierce is a native New Yorker, public theologian, community activist, and ordained minister.

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