BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4714-56055a7c04305a314ed18630cade4cb5@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20261002T062925Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T140000 SUMMARY:Dr. Todne Thomas: \"Burning the BlackMotherChurch: On Ethnography and Ma trifocal Methodology\" DESCRIPTION:\nOn June 22\, 2015\, the College-Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Church (CHSDAC)\, a predominately African American church in Knoxville\ , Tennessee\, was burned. Bales of hay were left in front of the church and set ablaze. The church building sustained minor damages. A side door and surrounding wing of the church sustained fire and smoke damage. The church van was also ignited\, its chassis and tires significantly damag ed by fire making it inoperable. The local police classified the burning as an act of vandalism. No suspect was ever apprehended. \;\n\nDr. Thomas'\; \;current ethnographic inquiry into this local arson an d its aftermath is guided by a matrifocal methodology&mdash\;an autoethn ographic ethics that explores and informs her \;relationship to the research as a daughter\, black feminist anthropologist\, a native of Kno xville\, Tennessee\, and the gendered and institutional dynamics of her& nbsp\;own relationship to place and black socio-religious life. \; S he \;also investigates the complexities of studying black subjectivi ty\, anti-black racism\, and religious violence in Appalachia&mdash\;a r egion that is not associated with a large African American population\, the plantation complex\, or the post-industrial city. \;\n\nIn addit ion to troubling racial\, regional\, and spatial narratives of exception alism that might obviate the quotidian character of anti-black religious violence in Knoxville\, Dr. Thomas \;applies \;a matrifocal met hodology to explore the gendered implications of black church arson (the burned blackmotherchurch) and its attempt to circumscribe black church therapeutic potentialities that are highly mediated by black women&rsquo \;s homosociality.\n\nRegister in advance at: \;https://bit.ly/3oxFM 20\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr_todne_thomas_ burning_the_blackmotherchurch_on_ethnography_and_matrifocal_methodology/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

On June 22, 201 5, the College-Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Church (CHSDAC), a predominate ly African American church in Knoxville, Tennessee, was burned. Bales of hay were left in front of the church and set ablaze. The church buildin g sustained minor damages. A side door and surrounding wing of the churc h sustained fire and smoke damage. The church van was also ignited, its chassis and tires significantly damaged by fire making it inoperable. Th e local police classified the burning as an act of vandalism. No suspect was ever apprehended.

Dr. Thomas' current ethnogra phic inquiry into this local arson and its aftermath is guided by a matr ifocal methodology—an autoethnographic ethics that explores and in forms her relationship to the research as a daughter, black feminis t anthropologist, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, and the gendered and institutional dynamics of her own relationship to place and black socio-religious life. She also investigates the complexities of studying black subjectivity, anti-black racism, and religious violenc e in Appalachia—a region that is not associated with a large Afric an American population, the plantation complex, or the post-industrial c ity.

In addition to troubling racial, regional, and spatial narratives of exceptionalism that might obviate the quotidian character of anti-black religious violence in Knoxville, Dr. Thomas applies&n bsp;a matrifocal methodology to explore the gendered implications of bla ck church arson (the burned blackmotherchurch) and its attempt to circum scribe black church therapeutic potentialities that are highly mediated by black women’s homosociality.

For m ore details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr_todne_thomas_burning_the_blackmotherc hurch_on_ethnography_and_matrifocal_methodology/

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