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Credit:  Journal File Photo The School of Religion released a statement acknowledging the “disturbing incident” that happened during an event it hosted Tuesday afternoon. The event was a guest lecture by Dr. Kathryn Lofton of Yale University, called “The Present Life of Blasphemy: Kanye West in American Popular Culture.” The event—which was attended by more than 160 students, staff, faculty, and community members—was hacked by an anonymous user who portrayed swastikas, as well as other hateful and violent imagery including pornography, and used anti-Black, anti-woman, and Queerph...

The event was a guest lecture by Dr. Kathryn Lofton of Yale University, called “The Present Life of Blasphemy: Kanye West in American Popular Culture,” that happened yesterday afternoon over Zoom. While the event was advertised to the Queen’s community, particularly students in the course Religion & Popular Culture, it wasn’t an official Queen’s course lecture. “We are supporting several Jewish students who were in attendance, and will be communicating with our partners in the university administration to ensure a thorough investigation is undertaken,” Queen’s Hillel wrote. Th...