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DR. JUDITH WEISENFELD TO GIVE MEAD-SWING LECTURE AT OBERLIN COLLEGE
MARCH 16, 2001--Judith Weisenfeld brings another installment to the Mead-Swing Lecture Series with her talk entitled "Saturday Sinners and Sunday Saints: Narratives of Communal Identity in 1930s and 1940s Race Movies" Monday, March 19, at 7 P.M. in Room 106 of the King Building on Oberlin College's campus (corner of West College and North Professor streets).
"Her area of expertise is a significantly under-studied area of American religious culture in light of the impact of film on American culture," says A.G. Miller, associate professor of religion at Oberlin College.
Weisenfeld's current project is Through a Glass Darkly: On Religion, Race, and Gender in American Film, 1929-1950 (University of California Press), which is part of the Material History of America Religion Project funded by the Lilly Endowment.
As associate professor of religion at Vassar College, Weisenfeld teaches in the areas of African-American religious history and religion in American culture. Her recent books are African-American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945 and This Far By Faith: Readings in African-American Women's Religious Biography.
The Mead-Swing Lecture Committee and the Oberlin College Religion Department sponsor this campus visit.
Media Contact: Debbie Pillivant
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