Art and Devotion – New Accounts of Religious Culture, Race, and Gender in the United States

– Registration is Required –

This symposium is the second installment of the Princeton Graduate Book Forum.

A Symposium on Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century, by Vaughn A. Booker and Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg Brooklyn, by Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

Saturday March 25, 2023 – Lewis Library 120

8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:30-9:45 Opening Remarks: Wallace Best, Princeton University

9:45-11:45 First Panel: “Lifeblood of the Parish” – Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, University of Miami

Erica Robles-Anderson, New York University

Katherine Dugan, Springfield College

Chair: William Stell, Princeton University

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-3:30 Second Panel: “Life Every Voice and Swing” – Vaughn Booker

Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University

Lerone A. Martin, Stanford University

Richard Brent Tuner, University of Iowa

Chair: Mélena Laudig, Princeton University

3:30-4:15 Break

4:15-4:45 Symposium Summary – Jonathan Lee Walton, Princeton Theological Seminary

4:45-6:00 Closing Reception