{"id":55684,"date":"2026-10-20T09:16:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=55684"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:17:53","slug":"2026-27-annual-edgar-and-dorothy-davidson-lecture-get-craft-kathryn-lofton","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/event\/2026-27-annual-edgar-and-dorothy-davidson-lecture-get-craft-kathryn-lofton\/","title":{"rendered":"2026-27 Annual Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Lecture: \u201cGet Craft\u201d- Kathryn Lofton"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                                                        <\/div>\n        \n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed an increased public popularity of crafting, including the creation and promotion of craftcations, crafting communities, and craftivism. This kind of rejoinder to an increasingly automated age is nothing new &#8211; an ardently handmade reaction follows every epoch of insurgent technology. This talk uses findings from the study of religion to profile the values that craftmaking cajoles human beings to protect. It also questions whether slower pacing and human deliberation will finally compete, much less be sustainable, in the face of machine learning. Alongside discussions of quilting, fly fishing, and woodworking, this presentation includes scholarship itself as an intriguing test case for craft in a society of mass production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"263\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-20-090950.png\" alt=\"Kathryn Lofton\" class=\"wp-image-55688\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Kathryn Lofton <\/strong>is Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, Professor of History and Divinity, at Yale University. Lofton is a historian of religion focusing on popular culture in the United States.<br>In addition to over seventy articles and book chapters, she is the author of two books, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon (2011) and Consuming Religion (2017), and an edited collection, with Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Women\u2019s Work: An Anthology of African-American Women\u2019s Historical Writings (2010).<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":55687,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-55684","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-11-05 19:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-11-05 20:00:00","cu_event_add_to_calendar":"show","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_building":"PA","cu_event_meeting_room":"303","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/55684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/55684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55692,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/55684\/revisions\/55692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=55684"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=55684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}