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Sobrevida: A Conversation with Prof. Daisy Vargas
November 3, 2021 to November 03, 2021
Dr. Daisy Vargas explores life and death at the Mexico-U.S. borderlands through the material objects that migrants bring on their journeys.
The Religion and Complex Social Issues series began in fall 2017 to provide informative, thoughtful, discussion-oriented opportunities for students, faculty, and various other communities of Saint Louis University to engage topics of enormous consequence through the frameworks of theology and religion. Racism, sexuality, incarceration, politics, law, immigration, media, art, violence—all of these and more are part of the histories and experiences of religion. This fora creates space to explore such intersections through the lenses of academic rigor and the Jesuit mission of Saint Louis University.
This event took place in person at Saint Louis University Museum of Art, with a simultaneous Zoom feed. The event was was co-sponsored by Lived Religion in the Digital Age, with the generous support of the SLU College of Arts and Sciences and the Henry Luce Foundation.
This conversation took place in conjunction with the MOCRA exhibition Tom Kiefer: Pertenencias / Belongings.
Daisy Vargas, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona. Dr. Vargas specializes in Catholicism in the Americas; race, ethnicity, and religion in the United States; and Latina/o religion. Her current project, “Mexican Religion on Trial: Race, Religion, and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” traces the history of Mexican religion, race, and the law from the nineteenth century into the contemporary moment, positioning current legal debates about Mexican religion within a larger history of anti-Mexican and anti-Catholic attitudes in the United States. She has served as an ethnographic field research for the Institute for the Study of Immigration and Religion since 2012. In 2017, she was awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Dr. Vargas serves as co-chair of the Latina/o and Latin American Religion section for the American Academy of Religion-Western Region, and as a steering committee member for the Religions in the Latina/o Americas unit for the American Academy of Religion. Dr. Vargas is co-curator of the MOCRA exhibition Tom Kiefer: Pertenencias / Belongings.�
Exhibition | |
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2018-10-07 to 2018-10-14 | ![]() Walking in Hope: A Weeklong Celebration of the Canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero |
2017-04-20 | ![]() “The Hand Acts Out a Joyous Dance”: Celebrating the Art of Bernard Maisner |
2016-09-25 | ![]() Erika Diettes: “Stories Told from the Threshold” |
2015-12-06 | ![]() So That You Know Each Other: Intercultural Reflections on Art, Beauty, and Islam |
2014-11-15 | ![]() John Handley: “The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso” |
2018-09-28 to 2018-09-29 | ![]() Fleur-de-Lis Floral Art Walk |
2014-02-23 | ![]() “The Economy of Gift” in Socially Engaged Art Practices: A Public Deliberation |
2013-10-02 | ![]() Art21: The Spiritual Light screening at CAM |
2013-03-02 | ![]() Rituals and Spirituality in the Performative Photographic Work of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons |
2012-11-11 | ![]() Breaking Boundaries: A Conversation about the Art of Patrick Graham |
2012-05-20 | ![]() Stephen P. Durchslag: “The Jewish Experience and the Haggadah” |
2012-03-27 | ![]() 2012 Loyola Chair Lecture: “The Image of the Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Consciousness” |
2011-10-06 | ![]() 2011 Loyola Chair Lecture: “The Pursuit of the Spirit: The Renewed Interest in the Spiritual and Religious Dimensions in Contemporary Art” |
2011-05-01 | ![]() Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: “Georges Rouault and the Art of Sacred Engagement” |
2010-11-15 | ![]() Terrence Demspey, S.J.: “Creating a Religious Environment through Contemporary Art and Architecture” |
2010-03-28 | ![]() Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: “The Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Conscience” |
2009-12-01 | ![]() Day With(out) Art |
2009-11-15 | ![]() Michael Byron: “Cosmic Tears: Word and Image” |
2009-03-29 | ![]() Art and the Religious Imagination |
2008-04-15 | ![]() Wu Hung: “What Is Contemporary Chinese Art?” |
2007-10-07 | ![]() Celluloid Bible Classics: The Ten Commandments |
2007-11-04 | ![]() Celluloid Bible Classics: Ben-Hur |
2007-09-16 | ![]() Michael Morris, O.P.: “Moving Pictures: The Bible and Beyond” |
2007-03-30 | ![]() Peter Frank: “An Oskar Fischinger Tribute” |
2006-12-01 | ![]() Day With(out) Art |
2005-12-04 | ![]() Robert Rosenblum: “DoDo Jin Ming: An Art Historian's View” |
2003-09-07 | ![]() To Make Extraordinary: The Role of Sacred Objects in Life and Worship |
2002-05-04 | ![]() The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A University Response |
2002-04-30 | ![]() Fred D. Gray: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Study That Should Never Have Occurred |
2002-01-31 | ![]() Cloudlanders |
2002-01-26 | ![]() Thomas Sokolowski: “The Last Temptation: Andy Warhols Art as Belief” |
2000-11-30 | ![]() Day With(out) Art |
2001-04-06 | ![]() Bare Naked Statues in concert |
1999-04-15 | ![]() Two Lectures: Ellen Dissanayake and Jack Renard |
1999-03-27 | ![]() Bernard Maisner: “The Art of the Illuminator” |
1998-03-22 | ![]() Renaissance and Modern |
1997-11-15 | ![]() The Role of the Computer in Contemporary Art |
1997-07-24 | ![]() Jennifer Biddle: Body, Country, Canvas: Meaning and Identity in Central Desert Aboriginal Women’s Art |
1997-06-07 | ![]() Creativity as Ancestral Mind: Living with the Ancestors |
1997-02-27 | ![]() The Artist and the Theologian Dialogue: The Body of Christ as Veiling and Unveiling the Invisible God |
1996-12-01 | ![]() Day Without Art |
1996-05-19 | ![]() The Artist as Poet: Readings by Edward Boccia |
1995-05-20 | ![]() Ian Friend: “The Edge of Belief” |
1995-05-04 | ![]() Peter Selz: “Degenerate Art” |
1995-02-05 | ![]() Lynn Hague in recital |
1994-11-13 | ![]() Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: “The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS” |
1994-12-01 | ![]() Day Without Art |
1994-11-05 | ![]() Thomas Sokolowski: “The Changing Face of AIDS” |
1994-11-01 | ![]() The Amici String Quartet in recital |
1994-10-15 | ![]() Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the TIme of AIDS dance program and opening reception |
1993-10-29 | ![]() I Remember Alvin |
1993-11-05 | ![]() An Evening with Katherine Dunham |
1992-11-07 | ![]() The Artist and Sacred Space |
2019-04-14 | ![]() A Conversation with Gary Logan |
2019-11-10 | ![]() Pursuing the Spirit in Contemporary Art: A Celebration of Terrence Dempsey, S.J. |
2021-10-26 to 2021-10-26 | ![]() Religion and Complex Social Issues Series: Panel on Immigration, Justice, and Religion |
2021-11-03 to 2021-11-03 | ![]() Sobrevida: A Conversation with Prof. Daisy Vargas |
2021-11-05 to 2021-11-05 | ![]() Meet the Artist: Tom Kiefer |
2021-11-06 to 2021-11-06 | ![]() Conversations with Photographer Tom Kiefer |
2022-04-07 to 2022-04-07 | ![]() Tom Lucas, S.J.: Art in the Jesuit Tradition |
2022-09-29 | ![]() Artist, Poet, Curator: A Conversation with Lesley Dill, Tom Sleigh and Rene Paul Barilleaux |
2022-11-19 | ![]() What Is Viral? What Is Value? — Open Mic |
2024-04-14 | ![]() René Paul Barilleaux: Crafting a Curatorial Practice |