[377] African-American women, religion examined in April 10 lecture at MTSU

MURFREESBORO — MTSU’s Africana Studies and Religious Studies programs are joining forces to celebrate their first-year anniversaries.

“Female Captive to Negro Wench: Slavery in Religious and Gendered Perspective” is the title of a lecture and lunch event scheduled for 1 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, in the Parliamentary Room of the Student Union.

A printable campus parking map is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap.

Off-campus visitors attending the event should obtain a special one-day permit from MTSU’s Office of Parking and Transportation at http://www.mtsu.edu/parking/visit.php.

Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, an assistant professor of Religious Studies, American Religious History and African-American Religious History at Vanderbilt University, will deliver the presentation.

Wells-Oghoghomeh is an historian of African-American religion with a primary interest in the sacred cultures of the Southern United States. Her research explores religious exchanges and productions within the African Atlantic, colonial and antebellum Southern cultures, the religiosity of race in the U.S. and women’s religious histories.

Recently, she was awarded prestigious fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the Young Scholars in American Religion Program.

This event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, the Africana Studies Program and the Religious Studies Association. For more information, contact Rebekka King, assistant professor of religious studies, at 615-494-8987 or rebekka.king@mtsu.edu