Katie G. Cannon papers, 1955 -- 2018

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Series IV: Speaking engagements, circa 1970 -- 2018

This series is open for research.

0.75 linear feet; 0.75 linear feet

This series contains lectures, addresses, sermons, narrative text for bible studies, as well as correspondence and other materials related to speaking engagements. Materials are both typed and handwritten, often with slashes or other markers of speech rhythms, as well as notes and edits. Some folders contain multiple drafts or versions.

This series is arranged in rough alphabetical order. Original folder titles kept where available.



Box 2 Folder 47 Avoiding the Pitfalls in Life, 1976, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 48 The Beloved Community and Eco-Justice, 2010, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 49 Black Thought/Black Strategy: The Analysis of Racism as an Ethical Issue, 1983-12-03, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 50 Codes of Ethics in Slave Novels, circa 2000 -- 2018, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 51 Confidence in the Ableness of God, 2003 -- 2005, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 52 Conspiracy Against God, 2004-08-22, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 53 Cost of Discipleship, circa 1970 -- 1989, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 54 Courage for Such a Time as This, circa 1996, circa 2008, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 55 Daring to Speak the Unspeakable, 2002-02-06, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 56 Discipleship of Equals: Resisting Lop-Sided Missions, 1998, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 57 Embodied Mediated Wisdom: Black Women's Literature as Sacred Texts, circa 2008 -- 2009, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 58 Equipping People to Respect Race in the Work of Justice, circa 1980 -- 1999, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 59 Ethics and Literature, circa 1998 -- 2000, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 60 Everyday Matters of Life and Death, 1997 -- 1998, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 61 First United Presbyterian Church Bible Study, 2003 -- 2007, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 62 The Gift and Curse of Class in Alice Walker's Meridian, circa 1983 -- 1999, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 63 The Heartbreak of Living: Womanist Critique of Effective Evangelism, circa 2000 -- 2018, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 64 International Conference on Racism and Globalization: an ethical mapping of the transatlantic slave trade, circa 2008, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 65 Justice in Search of a People, circa 1995, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 66 Loading the Canon, circa 1996 -- 2018, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 67 No Center - No Outer Edge: Living with Intergrity in Situations of Oppression, circa 1983 -- 1999, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 68 Off the Menu, circa 2007, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 69 On Remembering Who We Are, 1993-08-01, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 70 Out of the Shadows of Death, circa 2000 -- 2004, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 71 The Patience to Wait, circa 1970 -- 1983, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 72 Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Classroom, circa 1983 -- 1995, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 73 Possibilities for Justice, 1999 -- 2000, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 74 The Power of Ontological Blackness in the Presbyterian Tradition, 2004-06-27, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 75 Preaching and Social Change, 2002, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 76 Prophetic Preaching: The Register of Ministerial Significance/The Key Category of Vocational Importance, circa 1999, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 77 Prophets for a New Day, circa 1992 -- 1996, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 78 The Pulpit as a Mission Site - According to James H. Robinson, circa 1990, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 79 Remembering What We Never Knew, circa 1983 -- 2018, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 80 Remembering Who We Are From a Theological Perspective, 1994-07-20, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 81 Revolutionaries in Zion, 2012-10-11, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 82 The Road to Emmaus - Sermon, circa 1991, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 83 The Scholarly Vocation and the Common Good, 2002, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 84 Sermon as Genre: Black Preaching as Process in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston, circa 1991 -- 1993, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 85 Silencing the Voices from Within, circa 1980, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 86 The Social Dialect in Toni Morrison's Jazz, circa 1994 -- 1999, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 87 The Sound of Memory: Social Teachings in Black Sacred Rhetoric, circa 2000 -- 2018, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 88 The Sound of Memory: Understanding the Rhythm of Ethical Cadence, circa 2000 -- 2018, 1 folders


Box 2 Folder 89 Speaking: Miscellaneous Content, circa 1983 -- 2018, 1 folders



Box 3 Folder 1 The Spirit of God in the Book of Ezekiel - Sermon, 1982, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 2 Squaring the Ethical Circle: Zora Neale Hurston as a Doer of Justice, 2012, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 3 Talking About Race, circa 1998 -- 2005, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 4 A Taste of Paradise: Womanist Norms for Emancipatory Praxis, circa 2004, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 5 Thematic Exposition of the Sacred Rhetoric in BlackWomen's Texts, circa 1991 -- 1993, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 6 Theorizing the Personal: Zora Neale Hurston and the Ruby McCollum Trial, circa 1993 -- 2018, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 7 To Tell The Truth, circa 1970 -- 1990, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 8 Translating Womanism Into Pedagogical Practice, 1997, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 9 Unearthing Ethical Treasures: The Intrusive Markers of Social Class, 2004, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 10 Unfolding Texts of Contextual Promise, 1994-07-18, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 11 Unshackling Ethical Truth: A Womanist Critique of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, circa 2004 -- 2005, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 12 Untethering Grace from Dogmatic Anchors: A Womanist Critique of the Transatlantic Slave trade, circa 2004 -- 2005, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 13 Voice Crying from the Ground, circa 1970 -- 1990, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 14 Walking Across the Rim Bones of Nothingness, 1990, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 15 Walking Humbly With Our God: Moral Linkages that Lie at the Heart of Womanist Homiletics, circa 2005, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 16 The Way of the Cross, circa 1970 -- 1990, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 17 What is Africa to me?, circa 2003 -- 2018, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 18 Where Ethics and Eschatology Meet: Zora Neale Hurston's Account of the Ruby McCollum Trial, circa 1993, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 19 The (W)hole of Wisdom: Black Women's Literature as Sacred Texts, circa 2004 -- 2005, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 20 To Whom Do We Belong, circa 1990, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 21 Womanism at Harvard 2017, 2017, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 22 Womanist Epistemological Sensibilities: Transforming Antiquated Modes of Religious Hierarchies in Light of Liberationist Pedagogical Ideals, 1993, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 23 Womanist Hermeneutics Lecture 2: Participating in the Unfolding Acts of Creation, circa 1997 -- 2018, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 24 Womanist TheoEthics, 2010, 1 folders


Box 3 Folder 25 Womanist Theological Ethics: When Doing Nothing is Never Enough, 2008, 1 folders