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Schedule

All events will be held at the John Evans Alumni Center 1800 Sheridan Road, Evanston IL 60208

 
Thursday, 23 May                  

Session 1 (5-7pm)

Opening Lecture: Dr. Joy James: “Purchasing the Radical Archive: Academia, Angela Davis, and the Transfiguration of the Political Prisoner.”

 

Friday, 24 May    

 

Breakfast (8-9am)

Session 2 (9am-10:40am). 
 
*(20 min presentations followed by 25 min responses)

9am-9:50am 
Jerome P Dent, Jr.: On the End(s) of Dreaming” 
1st respondent: Dr. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
2nd respondent: Delali Kumavie
Q & A

9:50am-10:40am 
Jon Jon Moore: “The Taking of Barney Hill: Objective Vertigo and The Ontology of Alien Abduction”
1st respondent: Dr. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
2nd respondent: Delali Kumavie
Q & A

Short Tea Break (10 mins)

Session 3 (10:50-12:30pm) 

10:50-11:40
Ellen Louis: ““The Force of the Double: Tracing Fantasy and the Female Slave in Charles Chestnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
1st respondent: Dr. Selamawit Terrefe
2nd respondent: Tyrone S. Palmer
Q & A

11:40-12:30pm 
Ziyana Lategan“Toward a Metaphysics of Slavery”
1st respondent: Dr. Selamawit Terrefe
2nd respondent: Tyrone S. Palmer
Q & A

Lunch (12:30 PM-1:30 PM)

Session 4
1:30-2:30 PM 
Lecture

Lecture: Dr. John Murillo III: “9 Stitches: Imposible Stories and Shared Avatars”

Short Break (10 mins)

Session 5 (2:40-4:20 pm). 

2:40pm-3:30pm 
Jesús Luzardo: “Sin Without God: On Blackness and Despair”
1st respondent: Dr. Matthieu Chapman
2nd respondent: Cecilio M. Cooper

Q & A

3:30pm-4:20pm 
Andrew Kaplan: Global Anthropogenesis and the Black Messianic Animal, or Relation’s Ban of Contact with the Ruptured Flesh of the Earth”
1st respondent: Dr. Matthieu Chapman
2nd respondent: Cecilio M. Cooper

Q & A

Break (4:40pm-5pm)

Session 6
5pm

LectureDr. Zine Magubane: “Decolonizing the ‘pre-history’ of African and African American Studies: Confronting Racism in the American Episteme”

Dinner (7pm)

 

Saturday, 25 May                   

 

Breakfast (8-9am)

Session 7 (9am-10:40am) 
9am-9:50am 
Chloé Faux: “The Fetish (Supposing it Existed) of the Struggle”
1st respondent: Dr. Zine Magubane
2nd respondent: Mlondi Zondi
Q & A

9:50am-10:40am 
Athi Mongezeleli Joja: “Venereal Tastes: The Psychosexual Tropes of State Capture”
1st respondent: Dr. Zine Magubane
2nd respondent: Mlondi Zondi

Q & A
Short Break (10 mins)

Session 8
10:50am-11:40am

LectureDr. Matthieu Chapman: “Is Black So Base a Hue?: Connected Histories of Anti-Blackness in England and Morocco.”  

Short Tea Break (10 mins)

Session 9 (11:50-1:30pm).
11:50-12:40 
Orion Morrison-Worrell: 
1st respondent: Dr. Joy James
2nd respondent: Le’ah Kaplan
Q & A 

12:40-1:30pm 
Taija Mars McDougall“An Ocean of Time”
1st respondent: Dr. Joy James
2nd respondent: Le’ah Kaplan

Q & A

Lunch (1:30- 2:30pm)

Session 10
2:30pm-3:30pm

LectureDr. Selamawit Terrefe: “Rupture and Relation: The Future Imperfect and the Condition of Black Impossibility”

Short Tea Break (10 mins)

Session 11 (3:40-5:10pm) 

3:40-4:30pm 
Erich Kessel: “Antiblackness. Melodrama and Affect in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1976)”
1st respondent: Dr. John Murillo
2nd respondent: Harrison Graves

Q & A

4:30pm-5:20pm
Kevin Rigby Jr.: “Blue Apperception: Theorizing Shared Vulnerability in Moonlight
1st respondent: Dr. John Murillo
2nd respondent: Harrison Graves

Q & A

Short Break (10 mins)
Session 12 (5:30pm)

Dr. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson: “The Matter of Slavery and Biocapital’s Spatiotemporality in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring

Closing Dinner (7pm)

1800 Sheridan Road • Evanston, Illinois 60208