This Saturday at the Queens Museum! In conversation with Dr. Yvonne Chireau

In "Spirit that can't be broken, rooted forever in your survival" Dr. Chireau and I will discuss the black spiritual histories, presents & futures that run throughout my show at the Queens Museum.

This is the first of two programs that will dive a bit deeper into the themes touched on in “9999”, and i’m so excited to kick things off with Dr. Chireau. Yvonne’s book,"Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition” was an essential text during my work on the show, and its truly an honor to do this with her. You can read on below to learn more about the talk, and to RSVP! For folks that can’t make it in, the talk will be recorded!

Hope to see ya’ll there <3

Spirit that can’t be broken, rooted forever in your survival: Cameron A. Granger & Yvonne Chireau in Conversation
07.20.24 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RSVP required

Join Cameron A. Granger and Yvonne Chireau as they delve into topics about Black belief systems explored in the exhibition Cameron A. Granger: 9999. Granger and Chireau will explore invisible institutions, the transition of conjuring practices from plantation communities in the Reconstruction Era, the development of urban magic and spiritual merchants, and the blurred lines between religion and stage magic.

Yvonne Chireau is the Peggy Chan Professor of Black Studies and Religion at Swarthmore College, where she teaches courses on Africana and American religions. She is the author of Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition and the co-editor of Black Zion: African American Religions and Judaism. Her forthcoming book on religion and comics is tentatively titled Comics, Graphic Voodoo, and the Imagining of Black Religion. Her writings on the intersections of magic, religion, and the Voodoo imaginary can be found online at the research blog The Academic Hoodoo.