2025-2026 Lectures and Events

  • University of Pennsylvania

    September 25, 2025
    3:30 - 5:00PM

    “Black freedom and the Racialization of Religious Excitement”

    RELS Colloquium

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  • University of Vermont

    October 23, 2025
    12:15PM

    “Black freedom and the Racialization of Religious Excitement”

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  • University of Detroit Mercy

    October 29, 2025
    6:30PM

    “Black Freedom and Religious Excitement: Inventing a Public Health Crisis”

    2025 Robert and Judith Bruttell Lecturer in Religion and Social Ethics

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  • American Academy of Religion

    November 22, 2025
    12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

    “Diagnosing Devotion, Denying Freedom: A Roundtable on Science, Religion, and Race in Judith Weisenfeld’s Black Religion in the Madhouse (NYU Press, 2025)”

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  • Weill Cornell Medicine Department of

    January 7, 2026
    1:15 - 2:45PM

    DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry

    Richardson Seminar on the History of Psychiatry

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  • Indiana University Bloomington

    January 29, 2026
    6:00 - 7:30PM

    Center for Religion and the Human Lecture Series

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  • Rice University

    March 26, 2026
    11:30am - 12:30pm CDT
    (12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT)

    Online


    Reading Religion Salon on Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake

    Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance

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