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Latitudes: Same-Sex Intimacies in an Early Modern African Text about an Ethiopian Saint, Gädlä Wälättä Petros (1672)
Wendy Belcher,Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton
  • Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

FBH 330


Professor Belcher has been studying the 340-year-old manuscript of a biography of Wälättä Petros, who was canonized for her efforts to maintain the Ethiopian church and resist conversions to Roman Catholicism. Professor Belcher's discussion of same-sex love in this text is an important intervention in accounts of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the lives of women in this time.