RELIC Student Club Meeting
RELIC, the Religious Studies student club, will be meeting on Tuesday, April 9 at 5:30pm in Education room 333.
Anyone interested in Religious Studies is welcome!
April 9, 2024:
Religion, Race, and Encounter in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
This talk will focus on how Mexican Catholic religious practices aid and inform the maintenance and construction of ethnic and racial identities in the United States. Dr. Vargas will be talking about her current book project and intersections of law, race, and religion in the United States and popular interpretations and representations of Mexican Catholicism.
Dr. Daisy Vargas received her PhD in History from the University of California Riverside. She is an ethnographer and historian of religion specializing in Catholicism in the Americas; race, ethnicity, religion in the United States; and Latinx religion. Dr. Vargas is involved in museum curatorial work, and she also serves on the advisory committee for the Lilly Endowment funded Engaging Lived Religion in the 21st Century Museum at the Fowler Museum of UCLA. She is co-chair of the Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit, and steering committee member of the Catholic Studies Unit for the American Academy of Religion.
