The Goodspeed Lecture Series welcomes Ronald L. Grimes, who will present a lecture on “Ritual, Media, and Conflict in the Santa Fe Fiesta” at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 2, in Denison University’s Burton D. Morgan Center Lecture Hall (150 Ridge Road). This event is free and open to the public.

Grimes is professor and chair of Ritual Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The author of “Rite Out of Place: Ritual, Media, and the Arts” (2006), he is currently writing a book with a DVD called “Querying Ritual: A Theory, Method, and Case Study.”

Although ritualization marks the human life cycle and suffuses religious practice, existing research pays scant attention to ritual’s capacity for mediating or provoking conflict. In this multimedia presentation, Grimes will explore the dynamic interactions of ritual and media in conflictual situations by briefly considering several examples and then concentrating on one, New Mexico’s Santa Fe Fiesta.

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CALENDAR LISTING: Denison University, Granville — The Goodspeed Lecture Series welcomes Ronald L. Grimes, who will present a lecture on “Ritual, Media, and Conflict in the Santa Fe Fiesta” at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 2, in Denison University’s Burton D. Morgan Center Lecture Hall (150 Ridge Road). This event is free and open to the public.

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