Minority Scholars in Religion Conference Set

03/05/2019

The Minority Scholars in Religion Conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 7, and will feature doctoral student Marlon Millner as its keynote speaker.

Millner teaches religious studies at Northwestern University where he is pursuing a doctorate in the field. His dissertation focuses on Pentecostalism as a transnational diasporic movement. Millner holds a master’s in divinity degree from Harvard University.

His work focuses on the intersection of political and constructive theology, African-American and black diaspora studies and contemporary theory. Broadly, he is interested in theology's discursive constitution of modernity as anti-blackness, and therefore the black sacred, including expressions of AfroChristianities as excessive to, and not constituted by theology.

Conference will take place in the Pere Marquette Gallery, DuBourg Hall.

For questions or more information, contact Leonard McKinnis, Ph.D., or Regina Walton at 314-977-4585.