Harry Vaughan Smith Lectures: The Crossroads of Race and Religion in African American History

The 34th annual Harry Vaughan Smith Lectures will be held Feb. 24-25 in the School of Medicine auditorium. Dr. Judith Weisenfeld of Princeton University is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Religion in the Columbus Roberts Department of Religion. She will give three lectures on the theme, “The Crossroads of Race and Religion in African American History.” The lectures are as follows:

• 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24 — Black Freedom and Religious Excitement: Inventing a Public Health Crisis
• 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24 — Apostles of Race: Religion and Black Racial Identity During the Great Migration
• 10:10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25 — Projecting Blackness: African American Religion in Early Twentieth-Century Film

For event questions, contact Anna Davis at (478) 301-2755 or davis_av@mercer.edu.