Is There God After Prince? Icons in an Age of Last Things | April 4, 2024

Описание: Is There God After Prince? Icons in an Age of Last Things with Peter Coviello
2023-24 Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Speaker and 2024 Spirituality and Public Life Keynote

What can it mean to love the things we love (books, records, people) in a time of disaster, an era of ends? How do our icons speak to us—what news can they deliver—during planet-sized calamity? Taking a cue from the death of Prince, the much-mourned saint of Minneapolis, this lecture considers the icon as a herald of possibilities lying just beyond the secular perimeter of the knowable and known. All manner of things find us through our icons. This talk wonders over the fate of our devotion to them in this time of crisis and collapse—an age of Last Things.

The Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Speaker Series on Religion and Conflict is an endowed lecture series that honors the life-long commitment of Maxine Besser Marshall (‘76) and Jonathan Marshall to education, civil liberties and world peace. This event is also supported by the Center's Spirituality and Public Life Initiative.

About the speaker:
Peter Coviello is the author of six books, including “Make Yourselves Gods,” a finalist for the 2020 John Whitmer Historical Association Best Book Prize and “Long Players,” a memoir selected as one of ARTFORUM’s Best Books of 2018. His newest book, “Is There God After Prince? Dispatches from an Age of Last Things,” was selected for The Millions’ ‘Most Anticipated’ list for 2023.