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Symposium on black women's spiritual narratives, Feb. 20
Posted February 8, 2001; 03:35 p.m.
symposium entitled "What Shall We Do With These Proverbs? Black Women's Spiritual Narratives in Africa and Diaspora" will take place in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 20 at 3:30 p.m.
The three featured speakers are Mercy Amba Oduyoye, author of "Daughters of Anowa: African Women and Patriarchy;" Joycelyn Moody, author of "Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women;" and Carolyn Rouse, author of the forthcoming "Engaged Surrender: Women's Ambivalence and Empowerment in African-American Islam."
The event will be moderated by cultural anthropologist and Princeton University postdoctoral fellow Marla Frederick, author of the forthcoming "African-American Women's Spirituality and Activism in the Contemporary U.S. South."
For more information, contact the Center for the Study of Religion at askline@princeton or (609)258-5545; or the Program in African American Studies at jeanw@princeton or (609)258-4271.
Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601