On October 4 and 5, the Meeting of black women will take place in Rio de Janeiro: Interpreting Religions in the Diaspora. The meeting is a preparatory event for the IV Consultation of African and Diaspora Women, which will take place in July 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. The first and second Consultations (2012 and 2014) took place in Ghana, on the African continent. The third (July 2016) took place in Atlanta, United States.
The event is being organized by N'BLAC (Brazilian, Latin American and Caribbean Center for Studies in Race Relations, Gender and Social Movements) at UFRRJ (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro) and The Daughters of the African Atlantic Fund, a non-profit organization based in the United States.
The purpose of the meeting is to bring together leaders, practitioners, academics and supporters who live and research the experiences, challenges and discourses of various religious traditions on the African continent and its diaspora. The Consultation aims to be a space where black women - of different spiritualities, generations, vocations, sexualities and geographical regions - can give voice to their multiple identities, knowledge and contexts.
Helena Theodoro, an advisor to the ELAS Fund, will take part as a speaker on the panel Voices of Afro-Brazilian and South African religiosities, and Mãe Nilce, from Ilê Omolu e Oxum, one of the grantees by the ELAS Fund, will be on the panel Voices of Afro-Brazilian and Afro-American religiosities.
The meeting will take place from 6:30pm to 9:30pm on Tuesday 4th and from 8:30am to 12pm on Wednesday 5th, at the UFRJ Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences, in Largo de São Francisco, downtown Rio de Janeiro.
