FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2014
Ruan Conference Room (Transportation Center), 600 Foster Street
4:00 REGISTRATION
5:00 WELCOME
Sherwin Bryant
Director, Center for African American History
5:15 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Jasmine Johnson
Tosha “Ayo Love” Alston
5:30 KEYNOTE
Farah Jasmine Griffin • Flesh that Dance: Centering Dance
in the Black Studies Project
6:30 RECEPTION
SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2014
The Block Museum, 40 Arts Circle Drive
9:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
10:00 PANEL I
Mohwanah Fetus, Host
James Jordan • Kanye West’s Postmodern Black Revolution
Rachel Gladney • Archives of Gendered Exoticism in Black Popular Music
Christian Keeve & April McFadden • Electric Peoples: Janelle Monae’s Embodied Afrofuturism
Alex Weheliye, Discussant
11:30 LUNCH
12:20 RUMBA PROCESSION
Carlos “Quinto Eguis-Aguila, Tianna Paschel, Atif Smith
12:30 PANEL II
Cecilio Cooper, Host
Onye Ozuzu • ADADIA: African Dance and Drum in America: An Archival Project in Process
Raquel Monroe • “Analog Girl in a Digital World”: Erykah Badu’s Choreographies of Nostalgic “Blackness”
Daphne Brooks • Eat the Cake, Anna Mae: Beyonce, Hauntology and Tina’s Revenge
Ramón Rivera-Servera, Discussant
2:30 BREAK
2:45 PANEL III
Brittnay Proctor, Host
Thomas DeFrantz • The Fictions of Writing Dance: Black Gesture and Time
Takiyah Nur Amin • Site/Source: Notes on the Duality of the Black Dancing Body
Omi Joni Jones • Mapping Black Freedom
C. Riley Snorton, Discussant
4:45 CLOSING REMARKS
Darlene Clark Hine
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