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Centering the Black Sacred Arts: Research, Education, and Public Life

Type: Conferences & Symposia [View all]
Posted by: Yale University
Deadline: Sun, December 15th, 2024

The Yale Institute of Sacred Music is inviting proposals for papers, presentations and artistic performances for the 2025 Black Sacred Arts Conference to be held at Yale University in New Haven, CT from May 12-14, 2025. 

View details and access submission link. Submissions are due by December 15, 2024. 

Entitled "Centering the Black Sacred Arts: Research, Education, and Public Life", the conference will convene scholars and artists to consider the theoretical and practical work of centering the Black sacred arts in the academy and beyond. It will explore ways to incorporate the study and practice of the Black sacred arts in curricula and public life with the aim of uncovering new methodologies, epistemologies and pedagogies offered through their study. 

It will address questions such as: How does centering the Black sacred arts in disciplinary discussions push various fields of study to imagine new theoretical paradigms and methodologies? What are some of the theological and philosophical approaches that are uncovered through the study of Black expressive culture and religion? And what can be gleaned when the Black sacred arts become the heuristic? 

The conference will further seek out research and case studies that illustrate the profound losses that have accompanied the exclusion of the Black sacred arts in educational and institutional settings. The interdisciplinary conversations we hope will emerge from this conference will discover novel terrain through centering the Blacksacred arts in discussions of sonic, visual, and other sensoria that cut across religious, geographic, or social categories throughout Africa and beyond.

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Posted on Fri, October 4th, 2024
Expires on Sun, December 15th, 2024

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