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X-WR-CALNAME:Center for Law\, History & Culture Workshop 19th Distinguishe
 d Lecture in Law and Humanities—Staying in Place: The Colored Methodist 
 Church\, Sacred Space\, and Law in the American Civil War Era
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DESCRIPTION:Center for Law\, History & Culture Workshop 19th Distinguished 
 Lecture in Law and Humanities—Staying in Place: The Colored Methodist Ch
 urch\, Sacred Space\, and Law in the American Civil War Era by Sarah Barri
 nger Gordon (University of Pennsylvania)\n\nMarch 31\, 2022 at 4 pm\, the 
 Gould School of Law\, Faculty Lounge\, Rm. 433. Reception to follow. \n\n 
 \n\nEvent Description: CLHC is delighted to announce the 19th Distinguishe
 d Lecture in Law and Humanities: “Staying in Place: The Colored Methodis
 t Church\, Sacred Space\, and Law in the American Civil War Era\,” deliv
 ered by Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon\, the Arlin M. Adams Professor of
  Constitutional Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylv
 ania.\n\nProfessor Gordon is a renowned historian of American law whose wo
 rk probes the place of religion in public life and the place of law in Ame
 rican religious life.  She is the author of The Mormon Question: Polygamy 
 and Constitutional Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century America (University 
 of North Carolina\, 2002)\, which was the recipient of best book awards fr
 om both the Mormon History Association and the Utah Historical Society\, a
 nd The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern 
 America (Harvard University Press\, 2010)\, which explores how religious m
 inorities shaped the interpretation of the constitutional principles of di
 sestablishment and religious liberty. Known for her extraordinary mentorsh
 ip as well as her path breaking explorations of religion and law\, Profess
 or Gordon served as President of the American Society for Legal History fr
 om 2017 to 2019.  She also serves on the boards of the William Nelson Crom
 well Foundation\, the McDowell-Hartman Foundation\, and the University of 
 Pennsylvania Press. In 2015-16 she was a Guggenheim Fellow\, in 2017 she h
 eld the Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Con
 gress\, and in 2020-21 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Adv
 anced Study in Princeton\, where she worked on her forthcoming book about 
 the separation of church and state in the first century of the American re
 public. Her current work\, which forms the subject of her lecture\, examin
 es the role of legal disputes over church property in shaping the complex 
 interactions between religion and race.
LOCATION:Law Faculty Lounge\, Faculty Lounge\, Room 433
SUMMARY:Center for Law\, History & Culture Workshop 19th Distinguished Lec
 ture in Law and Humanities—Staying in Place: The Colored Methodist Churc
 h\, Sacred Space\, and Law in the American Civil War Era
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