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UPDATE 2/6/23: The below event has been cancelled.
Judith Weisenfeld, professor of religion at Princeton University, will discuss “Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry and African American Religions” on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Buttrick Hall, Room 102.
The event, hosted by Vanderbilt’s Department of Religious Studies, is open to the Vanderbilt community.
Weisenfeld’s talk will explore late 19th- and early 20th-century psychiatric theories about race, religion and the “normal mind” while shedding light on how ideas about race, religion and mental normalcy have shaped African American experiences.