FARMINGTON – The University of Maine at Farmington will host its fourth consultation on religion and modernity, entitled Multiple Souls: Identity, Transculturation and Power, from June 10 to 12.
Faculty, students and the public are invited to join a group of religion historians for a series of public presentations and open discussions focused on the work of two contemporary turn-of-the-century writers: W.E.B. DuBois and Jose Marti.
The program will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 10, with a session on the work of the writers by David Carrasco, Harvard University, and Charles H. Long, emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Friday’s and Saturday’s programs begin at 12:45 p.m. and conclude at 6:15 p.m. All presentations will be held in UMF’s Student Center North Dining Hall B and are free.
The program will include, among other subjects, discussions of modern constructions of identity in Japan; the 19th century Canadian Metis rebel Louis Riel; the classic Dutch novel “Max Haelaar”; Haudenosaunee Condolence; and West African religion.
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