Michaelsen Lecture: Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, Inventing Tituba: Enslaved Women, “Witchcraft,” and Racial Gender-Making in the Early Atlantic

Tuesday, May 27, 5 p.m.

HSSB 1174

Presented by the Department of Religious Studies

This talk will examine how witchcraft was a key part of discussions about African and African American women’s religious lives before, during, and after the Salem witch trials. It shows how the idea of witchcraft shaped racial and gender stereotypes in religion and remained influential well beyond the time and place of Tituba.