Presenters' Bios and Abstracts

Ireri Chávez Bárcenas, Bowdoin College, Sounding/Voicing/Embodying Blackness in the Early Modern Iberian World

Rhon S. Manigault-Bryant, Keynote Speaker, University of North Carolina

Clare Byrne, Yale University, Human/Divine Choreography: Dance Ministry in the A.M.E. Church

Corwin Malcolm Davis, Emory University, In a Nobler, Sweeter Song: Black Protestant Sacraments and Ritualized Temporalities

Collin Edouard, Yale University,The Memories Within our Voices: A Theoretical Approach to Vocality & Ritual Mounting in Haitian Vodou

Cesar Favila, University of California, Los Angeles, Sounding/Voicing/Embodying Blackness in the Early Modern Iberian World

Steven Friedson, Keynote Speaker, University of North Texas

Viktor Givens, Rice University, The Vernacular Sublime

Bernard Gordillo, Yale University, Sounding/Voicing/Embodying Blackness in the Early Modern Iberian World

J. Christian Greer, Stanford University, The Mothership Connection: The Afro-Centric Psychedelicism of Parliament Funkadelic

Michael Iyanaga, William & Mary, When Caboclos Sing Catholic Sambas: Reimagining the African Religious Legacy in Bahia, Brazil

Zainabu Jallo, University of Basel, Dialectics of a Rooted Diaspora

Richard Jankowsky, Tufts University, Affordances and Ambiguities of Ritual Repair and Transformations of Consciousness in North Africa

Nicholas R. Jones , Yale University, Sounding/Voicing/Embodying Blackness in the Early Modern Iberian World

Alexandra Jean-Joseph, Artistic Director, Imamou Lele Dance and Drum Ensemble, New York University, The Continuum: Drum, Song and the Dancing Body

Deborah Kapchan, New York University, Possessed by Possession: The Play of Paradox

Helmar Kurz, University of Muenster, Afro-Brazilian Ritual Performance: An Alternative Modernity

Jean Magloire, Musical Director, Imamou Lele Dance and Drum Ensemble, Brooklyn College, The Continuum: Drum, Song and the Dancing Body

J. Lorand Matory, Keynote Speaker, Duke University

Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan University, Creolophone Women’s Fugitive Speech: Bizango hums and vocal transformations

Juan Suárez Ontaneda, Xavier University in Cincinnati, El nazareno me dijo: The Musical Hagiography of Ismael Rivera

Allen F. Roberts, University of California,  A Congolese Furtum Sacrum: Mystical Trajectories of a Mission Madonna

Hillel Horacio Athias-Robles, University College London, Doubt and the Displacement of Consciousness in Mounting Across Africana Religions

Brendan Jamal Thornton, University of North Carolina, Travel & Trance: A Phenomenology of Transcendental Pilgrimage in the Spiritual Baptist Faith

Michael Veal, Keynote Speaker, Yale University

Errin Weaver, choreographer, community activator, and the Executive Artistic Director of Mojuba! Dance Collective