The ADRSA is excited to announce Yeye Luisah Teish as the keynote speaker for our 2025 conference entitled “My Sibling’s Keeper: Comfort, Care, and Community in Africana Religions” to be held online on April 11. Yeye was the keynote for “Healing and Wholeness in Africa and the Americas,” the 2012 Harvard symposium that led to theContinue reading “Yeye Luisah Teish to Deliver 2025 Keynote”
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Introducing ADRSA 2024 Featured Artist Madjeen Isaac
The ADRSA is pleased to announce Madjeen Isaac as the Featured Artist for our 2024 Conference, “The Power of Place: Home, ‘Foreign,’ and Belonging in Africana Religions” to be held at the City University of New York on April 19, 2024. Madjeen Isaac is a first generation Haitian-American artist whose practice is rooted in home,Continue reading “Introducing ADRSA 2024 Featured Artist Madjeen Isaac”
ADRSA 2024 CFP: The Power of Place
The African and Diasporic Religious Studies Association (ADRSA) is proud to present its twelfth conference on the theme “The Power of Place: Home, ‘Foreign,’ and Belonging in Africana Religions” to be held at The City College of New York on April 19 (With events from Thursday, April 18 – Sunday, April 21). In Jamaican Creole,Continue reading “ADRSA 2024 CFP: The Power of Place”
CFP: Africana Sacred Healing Arts Conference
The ISM invites proposals for papers, presentations, and artistic performances on Africana sacred healing arts that address topics including but not limited to: Expanding definitions of the healing arts, illness, and unwellness Arts of healing and baptism/initiation Arts of healing and mortuary rites Healing as experienced transnationally and in the digital world Healing arts and the senses (inclusive ofContinue reading “CFP: Africana Sacred Healing Arts Conference”
CFP: ADRSA 2021 Praising and Raising the Dead
CALL FOR PAPERS | For Immediate ReleasePraising and Raising the Dead” Life, Death, and Rebirth in Africana Religions Friday, April 23, 2021 | 9 am – 6 pm EST | ONLINE Opening Plenary Address by Dr. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith Keynote Address by Queen Mother Manbo Dowoti Desir Featured Artist, Vladimir Cybil Charlier The African and DiasporicContinue reading “CFP: ADRSA 2021 Praising and Raising the Dead”
ADRSA and The God Box Foundation Partner to Offer New Community Film Series
In the wake of its highly successful 2020 Conference, Wind & Fire: Honoring the Divine Feminine and Masculine in Africana Religions, the ADRSA has partnered with the God Box Foundation to keep the community connected. “The energy was just electric–pun intended,” quipped ADRSA Founding Director, Iya Dr. Funlayo E. Wood-Menzies, “Several attendees commented that, in someContinue reading “ADRSA and The God Box Foundation Partner to Offer New Community Film Series”
As Corona Crisis Continues, Africana Scholars and Practitioners Keep the Knowledge Flowing Through the Community— Virtually
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Santa Barbara, CA—The disappointment of cancellation has been a common feature of the past month as the country and the world have been gripped by the spread of the novel Coronavirus. With events being axed both domestically and overseas, impacting economics and morale, the African and Diasporic Religious Studies Association (ADRSA) decidedContinue reading “As Corona Crisis Continues, Africana Scholars and Practitioners Keep the Knowledge Flowing Through the Community— Virtually”
Andrea Peoples to Teach Orisa Dance at ADRSA 2020
The ADRSA is pleased announce dancer and cultural arts organizer Andrea Peoples as the Featured Dance Teacher for our 2020 Conference weekend. Wind & Fire: Honoring the Divine Feminine and Masculine in Africana Religions will be held Friday, April 17 at Xavier University in New Orleans. Ms. Peoples is a seasoned African, Afro Cuban, and Dunham TechniqueContinue reading “Andrea Peoples to Teach Orisa Dance at ADRSA 2020”
Artist Stephen Hamilton to be Featured at 2020 Conference
The ADRSA is pleased to announce artist and educator Stephen Hamilton as the Featured Artist for our 8th conference, Wind and Fire: Honoring the Divine Feminine and Masculine in Africana Religions to be held at Xavier University in New Orleans on April 17, 2020. Based in Boston Massachusetts, Stephen incorporates both Western and African techniques into his work,Continue reading “Artist Stephen Hamilton to be Featured at 2020 Conference”
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