Lecture: “What Kaʻahumanu Taught Me, with Sally Promey”

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Date & Time

Tue, Feb 11 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Address (map)

University of California, Santa Barbara, Building 581, off, Ocean Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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UCSB Faculty Club

The Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life will present “What Ka ‘ahumanu Taught Me: Kawaiaha ‘o Church, Material Establishment, and the Limits of American Display,” a lecture by Sally M. Promey (Yale) on Feb. 11th at 5:00pm at UCSB’s Betty Elings Wells Pavilion (Faculty Club). This event is free and open to the public.

The public display of religion has been fundamental to the shape of the American state. Two case studies, Kawaiahaʻo Church in Honolulu and the so-called Peace Cross just outside Washington, D.C., show how “material establishment” has situated White Christianity as its default, a technology of nation formation that certifies the legibility of some cultural forms and disqualifies others. While display prevails in national aesthetic practices, it has distinct limitations: it does not know how to behave when sacred spaces require privacy, when “vacant” space is nonetheless already filled, when something “concealed” is not awaiting discovery but already at home.

Sally M. Promey is Caroline Washburn Professor of Religion and Visual Culture at Yale University, with appointments in American Studies, Religious Studies, and Divinity (Institute of Sacred Music) and a faculty affiliation in History of Art. She is founding Director of the Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (MAVCOR).

This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of Religious Studies and History of Art & Architecture at UCSB.

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