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Save the date for two upcoming events with the Center for the Study of Religion's visiting scholar Kimerer LaMothe. </div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">a screening of the documentary<a href="https://religion.osu.edu/events/film-screening-why-we-dance" id="LPlnk" title="https://religion.osu.edu/events/film-screening-why-we-dance">
</a><i><a href="https://religion.osu.edu/events/film-screening-why-we-dance" title="https://religion.osu.edu/events/film-screening-why-we-dance">Why We Dance</a>
</i>on </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Monday, March 18th at Wexner Center at 4 pm</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i>.
</i>Engaging a range of scientists, artists and scholars — including LaMothe — this film explores the role that dancing plays in the evolution of the human species and the ongoing creation of human culture. A Q+A session will follow. This event is free, but
tickets are required- <a href="https://my.wexarts.org/4146/4147?_gl=1*1hy0x14*_ga*ODQ1MTYzMzMwLjE2OTU4MjU0MDk.*_ga_09WC99HMPE*MTcwNzg0MzYyNS44NDYuMS4xNzA3ODUzMjE0LjU0LjAuMA.." id="OWA7a7bbaac-c161-7b71-f0be-de21211dedac" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://my.wexarts.org/4146/4147?_gl=1*1hy0x14*_ga*ODQ1MTYzMzMwLjE2OTU4MjU0MDk.*_ga_09WC99HMPE*MTcwNzg0MzYyNS44NDYuMS4xNzA3ODUzMjE0LjU0LjAuMA.." data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
follow this link for tickets.</a><a href="https://my.wexarts.org/4146/4147?_gl=1*1hy0x14*_ga*ODQ1MTYzMzMwLjE2OTU4MjU0MDk.*_ga_09WC99HMPE*MTcwNzg0MzYyNS44NDYuMS4xNzA3ODUzMjE0LjU0LjAuMA.." id="OWA9266667e-324b-5e18-9441-de2f3457332d" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://my.wexarts.org/4146/4147?_gl=1*1hy0x14*_ga*ODQ1MTYzMzMwLjE2OTU4MjU0MDk.*_ga_09WC99HMPE*MTcwNzg0MzYyNS44NDYuMS4xNzA3ODUzMjE0LjU0LjAuMA.." data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;"> </a></span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dr. LaMothe’s research talk,
<a href="https://religion.osu.edu/events/hard-times-require-furious-dancing-decolonizing-study-religion-and-dance" id="LPlnk" title="https://religion.osu.edu/events/hard-times-require-furious-dancing-decolonizing-study-religion-and-dance">
“</a><u><a href="https://religion.osu.edu/events/hard-times-require-furious-dancing-decolonizing-study-religion-and-dance" title="https://religion.osu.edu/events/hard-times-require-furious-dancing-decolonizing-study-religion-and-dance">‘Hard Times Require Furious
Dancing’: Decolonizing the Study of Religion and Dance</a></u><a href="https://religion.osu.edu/events/hard-times-require-furious-dancing-decolonizing-study-religion-and-dance" title="https://religion.osu.edu/events/hard-times-require-furious-dancing-decolonizing-study-religion-and-dance">"</a> is
on Tuesday, March 19 at 4 pm in 198 Hagerty.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Over five centuries, as representatives from European countries
invaded Indigenous lands across five continents, the practice of Indigenous dancing emerged as a privileged site of both colonial repression and Indigenous resistance. Kimerer will outline this historical conflict and assess the implications for the study
of religion, arguing that the task of overcoming the legacy of Euro-American colonialism will not be complete until scholars embrace “dance" as a distinctive agent of religious experience and expression.</span></div>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kimerer LaMothe, dancer, philosopher and scholar
of religion, is keen on advancing the field of religion and dance. She is the author of six books, including
<i>Why We Dance</i> (Columbia University Press), as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. LaMothe earned her PhD in Christian Theology of the Modern West from Harvard University before teaching at Brown and then Harvard for six years. Recently,
Kimerer wrote the book, lyrics and music for <i>Nietzsche</i>, a full-length musical based on the life and legacy of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his sister Elisabeth. For more information, go to
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