Laura Nasrallah:Speaking in/of Tongues: Ancient Christianity, South Korean Pentecostalism & Poetry of M. NourbeSe Philip
According to a letter from the apostle Paul, Christ-followers in the Roman colonial town of Corinth in the midst of assembly were speaking in tongues which no one could understand. This talk is an experiment, bringing together recent analyses of speaking in tongues or glossolalia in South Korea (Nicholas Harkness) with a critique of the violence of language by Afro-Caribbean poet M. NourbeSe Philip.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public