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Marcus Harvey Lecture: “The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat”

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Western Carolina University
Cullowhee,NC+ Google Map

November 8, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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Marcus Harvey, UNC Asheville assistant professor of religious studies, will present The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat, a lecture about Malidoma Somé and the future of Africana religious studies, at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., in  the McKee Building, room 214.

Harvey will discuss the experience of Somé, kidnapped from his West Africa home in 1960 at 4 years old, forced into mission schools and Western civilization, and his later return to his native culture. The lecture also will look at how the past three decades have witnessed incremental growth within the academic study of religion called “Africana religious studies,” a designation encompassing African religion-cultural traditions.

The lecture is part of WCU’s Jerry Jackson Lecture in the Humanities series. For more information, contact Amy McKenzie at WCU, at 828.227.3852 or amckenzie@wcu.edu.


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Date:
November 8, 2018
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Venue

Western Carolina University
Cullowhee,NC+ Google Map