Serving as a moment of mindful reflection during Carnival season and an honest commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, join us for a free, public dialogue anchored by Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans—a rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in the Mississippi River Delta and American South.

This event will be moderated by Prof. Martha Pitts (https://www.washcoll.edu/people_departments/faculty/mpitts2.php) and is co-sponsored by the Washington College's English Department, Rose O'Neill Literary House, Center for Environment & Society, Intercultural Affairs Office, Black Studies Program, and Encouraging Respect of Sexuality and Supporting All Gender Experiences.

Dr. Ahmad Greene-Hayes (he/him) is Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and he is a member of the Standing Committee for the Study of Religion and the Standing Committee on Advanced Degrees in American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Dr. Greene-Hayes is an accomplished scholar, teacher, and mentor, and his research and teaching interests include 19th and 20th-century African American religious history; race, sexuality, and religion in the Americas; interdisciplinary archive studies; and theories and methods in the study of religion and Black Studies.

Learn more about Dr. Green-Hayes and Underworld Work (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo245100357.html).

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