Conference on Women and Religion in the African Diaspora
The final public conference for the Women and Religion in the African Diaspora project will be held on the Princeton University campus on April 22-24, 2004. The keynote speaker will be Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard University Press, 2003). Participants in the collaborative research group will present their work at the conference.
Additional conference participants from the Princeton faculty include Valerie Smith, Noliwe Rooks, Eddie Glaude, Daphne Brooks, and Al Raboteau. Many more from outside Princeton will also participate, including Kim Butler (author of Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition Sao Paulo and Salvador and many articles on “diaspora”), Diane Batts Morrow (noted author of Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860), Lawrence Little (author of Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916), Cecilia Moore, and many others.
Center for the Study of Religion
WRAD Conference Papers (secure website)