A set of esteemed critics engage the award-winning Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians (Notre Dame 2022), by Jeroen Dewulf (Berkeley: Dept. of German, the Folklore Program, and the Center for Portuguese Studies). This book's bold and consequential argument explores the pre-tridentine Luso-African Catholic origins of a variety of Black Christian forms in the United States and beyond. Dewulf will be on hand to respond and then conversation will open to the audience.
Panelists
Alison McLetchie, South Carolina State University
Emily Clark, Gonzaga University
Responding
Jeroen Dewulf, UC Berkeley
John Seitz, Fordham University, Presiding
Saturday, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 500 (Fifth Level)