As a capstone to our 2011-12 year-long focus on Faith or Justice?: Ironies, Inequalities and Ideologies, the Multicultural Student Center and Institute for Justice Education and Transformation (IJET) sponsored a symposium on Race, Religion and Representation on March 15-16, 2012 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. You can download the complete symposium schedule with workshop times and locations here.

Special guests included:

• Dr. Anthony Pinn, Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University with a focus on black theology;
• Dr. John Francis, Visiting Associate Professor at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and author of planetwalker and Ragged edge of Silence
• Debbie Goddard, Director of the African Americans for Humanism and Campus Outreach Coordinator at the Center for Inquiry
• Jennifer Knox, Organizer for VOICE (Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement)

Video Live Streams

• BODY LANGUAGE: EMBODIMENT, MATERIALITY AND THE REFRAMING OF AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGION (Dr. Anthony Pinn, Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University)
• OPENING PLENARY: THE RELEVANCE OF DISCUSSING RACE, RELIGION, AND REPRESENTATION (Aaron Bird Bear, Charles Cohen, Tom Dubois, John Francis, Karma Chavez, Stephanie Shonekan, Anthony Pinn, Debbie Goddard, Jennifer Knox, Cecile David)
• DIVERSITY IN THE ATHEIST MOVEMENT (Debbie Goddard)
• CLOSING PLENARY: THE TREE OF PEACE – SPIRITUALITY AND UNITY AT UW-MADISON (George Swamp, Janice Rice, Aaron Bird Bear, Ryan Comfort, Sawyer Denning)

• VARIETIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION
• FICTION AND LITERATURE ABOUT RACE, RELIGION AND REPRESENTATION
• IS GOD A WHITE RACIST? AND OTHER SCHOLARLY BOOKS ON AFRICAN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIES
• BOOKS AND MOVIE SELECTIONS FROM IJET’S FEATURED SPEAKERS (2011-12)

Sponsors

Thank to our co-sponsors: The Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions, UW-Madison Atheists, Humanists & Agnostics (AHA), and Asian American Studies.