Electric Orisha: Race, Media and Travel in Transnational San
Africana Studies Research Colloquium
Location
University Center : 310
Date & Time
September 26, 2013, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Description
The Africana
Studies Research Colloquium brings together scholars from different
theoretical, empirical, and methodological perspectives in order to provide
area faculty,
students, and other community members with additional opportunities to
engage cutting-edge research on, about, and involving communities of
African descent. The colloquium gives particular emphasis to research
addressing the varied ways in which race, ethnicity, culture, and
politics impact communities of African descent within and beyond the
continent of Africa.
Electric Orisha: Race, Media and Travel
in Transnational Santeria
Dr. Aisha M. Beliso-DeJesus,Cultural and Social Anthropologist and
Assistant Professor of African American Religions at the Harvard
Divinity School. Professor Beliso- DeJesus will draw from nearly a decade of
multi-sited ethnographic field research with Santeria practitioners in
Cuba, Florida, California, and New York to discuss the recording of
Santeria practice and its use in creating multi-lateral transnational
linkages. Dr. Beliso-DeJesus will also discuss the emergence of
religious travel/cosmopolitanisms as reconfigured and uneven notions
of mobility.
Sponsored by: The Department of Africana Studies
Co-Sponsor: Dresher Center for the Humanities
