Black Portraiture[s] II: Imaging the Black Body and Re Staging Histories Revisited

Date: February 19th –20th 2016

Location: Washington Square Campus, New York University, New York

 

Panels (February 19th)

Welcome

9:00 am – 9:30 am

Dean Allyson Green, Ellyn Toscano, Manthia Diawara, Deborah Willis

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ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings and More

9:30 am – 11:00 am

Panelists: Robert E. Holmes, Adrienne L. Childs, Paul H.D. Kaplan, Ulrich Baer, Alessandra Di Maio

Moderator(s): Awam Ampka

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Activating Histories: Visualizing and Restaging the Archive

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Panelists: Tiffany Gil, Tanisha C. Ford, Leigh Raiford, Jasmine E. Johnson, Jean-Paul Colleyn

Moderator(s): Kalia Brooks

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Imaging Masculinity

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Panelists: Pamela Newkirk, Monica L. Miller, Millery Polyné, Michael B. Gillespie

Moderator(s): Bill Gaskins and Noliwe Rooks

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The Portrait: Fabricating and Re-Presenting

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Panelists: Maaza Mengiste, Nicole Fleetwood, Elena Romero, DaMaris B. Hill

Moderator(s): Amy Mooney

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Who’s Black Where?

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Panelists: Cheryl D. Hicks, Charlton D. Mcllwain, Gunja SenGupta, Cyra Levenson, Antonia Lant

Moderator(s): Jennifer L. Morgan

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Panels (February 20th)

Welcome

9:00 am – 9:30 am

Dean Allyson Green, Ellyn Toscano, Awam Amkpa, Cheryl Finley

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Out of Body: Composing Blackness Through Sound, Music and (Performance) Art

9:30 am – 11:00 am

Panelists: Matthew D. Morrison, Imani Uzuri, Kwami T. Coleman, Nikki A. Greene

Moderator(s): Jeff Rabhan

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From Motown, To Philly Sound To Rock To Pop

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Panelists: Dyana Williams and Will Coloan, De Angela L. Duff, John Shevin Foster, Robert E. Holmes

Moderator(s): Michael D. Dinwiddie

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The Sweetest Taboo: Theorizing Black Female Pleasure, Agency and Desire Within Black Feminism

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Panelists: Joan Morgan, Jason King, Brittney Cooper, Mark Anthony Neal 

Moderator(s): Cheryl Finley

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The Art & Politics of Questionable Juxtapositions

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Panelists: Roderick Ferguson, Tavia Nyong’o, Shanté Paradigm Smalls, Iliana Cepero

Moderator(s): David Clinton Wills

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Re-creating Histories: Artists Speak

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Panelists: Deborah Jack, Sanford Biggers, Allison Janae Hamilton, Omar Victor Diop, Hank Willis Thomas, M. Neelika Jayawardane

Moderator(s): Rujeko Hockley

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