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DESCRIPTION:For faculty only.\n\nAmey Victoria Adkins-Jones\, Theology Depa
 rtment\, Boston College\nVincent Rougeau\, Law School\, Boston College\nMar
 k Massa\, S.J.\, Convener \n\nRegister for this event. Attendance is limite
 d.\n\nParticipants\n\nAmey Victoria Adkins-Jones is an Assistant Professor 
 of Theology and African and Africa Diaspora studies at Boston College. She 
 specializes in Mariology\, theological anthropology\, and womanist and blac
 k feminist thought. A theologian and black studies scholar\, her research s
 pecifically considers black madonnas and iconography\, human trafficking\, 
 the prison industrial complex\, racial justice\, visual culture\, and artif
 icial intelligence. Her first monograph (Immaculate Misconceptions\, in pro
 gress) offers a theological account of the rise of the global sex trade. Ce
 ntering the icon of the black madonna\, the book holds accountable theologi
 cal notions of purity and rape at the site of black flesh. Her second proje
 ct (See No Evil\, in progress) names how technology has changed the way we 
 visualize violence and black death\, and offers a theology of black protest
 . Outside of academia\, Adkins-Jones is a Baptist minister who frequently p
 reaches and teaches around the country. She is currently working on a monog
 raph entitled Made Flesh: Mary and the Christian Tradition of Trafficking S
 ex.\n\nVincent Rougeau became dean of Boston College Law School in July of 
 2011. He previously served as a professor of law and Associate Dean for Aca
 demic Affairs at Notre Dame. Rougeau was recently named Association of Amer
 ican Law Schools (AALS) President-elect.  In June\, 2020\, he became the in
 augural director of the Boston College Forum on Racial Justice in America.\
 n\nA vocal advocate for change in legal education\, Rougeau has led a reorg
 anization in leadership structure at the law school that supports a more ho
 listic approach to student services\, expands the school’s national and int
 ernational recruitment of a diverse student body\, and enhances the School’
 s commitment to experiential learning and global engagement.\n\nAn expert i
 n Catholic social thought\, Rougeau’s current research and writing consider
  the relationship between religious identity and citizenship and membership
  in highly mobile and increasingly multicultural democratic societies. He s
 erves as Senior Fellow at the Centre for Theology and Community in London\,
  where he researches broad-based community organizing\, migration and citiz
 enship in the United Kingdom as part of the Just Communities Project.\n\nRo
 ugeau has served as a member of the Executive Committee of AALS\, as chair 
 of the AALS Deans Steering Committee\, and on the Council of the Boston Bar
  Association. His teaching interests are in contract and real estate law\, 
 as well as in law and religion. Before entering the academy\, he practiced 
 law at the Washington\, DC office of Morrison & Foerster from 1988-1991.\n\
 nMark Massa\, S.J. (convener) is the director of the Boisi Center for Relig
 ion and American Public Life at Boston College\, where he is also a profess
 or of theology. Massa received his Ph.D. in American religion from Harvard 
 University\, and is the author of seven books. His most recent book\, The S
 tructure of Theological Revolutions: How the Fight Over Birth Control Trans
 formed American Catholicism was published in fall 2018 by Oxford University
  Press. His monograph published in 1999\, Catholics and American Culture: F
 ulton Sheen\, Dorothy Day\, and the Notre Dame Football Team\, received the
  Alpha Sigma Nu Award for Best Work in Theology for 1999-2000. His ongoing 
 area of research is American Catholic faith and culture of the past century
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SUMMARY:Faculty Seminar Series on Religious Resources to Combat Racism (fir
 st seminar)
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