Sinners: A Multivocal Conversation on the Blues, the Big Screen, and Vampire Slayers

Name: Sinners: A Multivocal Conversation on the Blues, the Big Screen, and Vampire Slayers
Start: 2025-05-02T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-02T13:30:00-04:00
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Fri, May 2, 2025

12 PM – 1:30 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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backslash backslash backslash “Sinners: A Multivocal Conversation on the Blues, the Big Screen, and Vampire Slayers backslash backslash backslash “ Friday, May 2nd, 12pm Mandel Center, Room 105 Refreshments will be provided Joy R. Bostic, PhD. - Africana Religion John Bickers, PhD. - Native American and Early American History Noël Voltz, PhD. - African American, Early American, and African Diaspora Histories AJ Kluth, PhD. - Musicology and Music Ryan Coogler backslash backslash backslash ’s film Sinners is a cinematic feat and a cultural moment that centers Africana religion and culture, and combines historical realism and fantasy within a multicultural landscape. Sinners is a love letter to blues people, a recognition of the cross-cultural spaces that give shape to the rhythms of ( U.S. ) American religion, music, and movement; and an acknowledgment of the tensions that remain. Come and join us in a conversation on racial and historical memory, visions of freedom, and Africana and multicultural futures. What is the meaning of the Blues? What is Hoodoo? What is Hoodoo backslash backslash backslash ’s relationship to the Black Church? What is cultural vampirism? What is freedom and what emancipatory futures can we imagine together? What futures are possible? Sponsored by the Africana Studies Minor. Flyer for Sinners: A Multivocal Conversation on the Blues, the Big Screen, and Vampire Slayers

Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners is a cinematic feat and a cultural moment that centers Africana religion and culture and combines historical realism and fantasy within a multicultural landscape. Sinners is a love letter to blues people, a recognition of the cross-cultural spaces that give shape to the rhythms of (U.S.) American religion, music, and movement; and an acknowledgment of the tensions that remain. Come and join us in a conversation on racial and historical memory, visions of freedom, and Africana and multicultural futures. What is the meaning of the Blues? What is Hoodoo? What is Hoodoo’s relationship to the Black Church? What is cultural vampirism? What is freedom and what emancipatory futures can we imagine together? What futures are possible?

The panel of experts leading this discussion is comprised of:
Joy R. Bostic, PhD. - Africana Religion
John Bickers, PhD. - Native American and Early American History
Noël Voltz, PhD. - African American, Early American, and African Diaspora Histories
AJ Kluth, PhD. - Musicology and Music

Friday, May 2nd at 12pm, in the Mandel Center, Room 105
Refreshments will be provided
Registration is Requested

Sponsored by the Africana Studies Minor

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