Art & Power in Movement
An International Conference Rethinking the Black Power and Black Arts Movements
Conference Program (subject to change)
Thursday
| 4.00 pm | Melba Boyd talk on Dudley Randall and Broadside Press at Du Bois Library |
| 8:00 pm | Randy Weston Concert |
Friday
| 8.00-8:30 am | LINCOLN CAMPUS CENTER, Auditorium Lobby Registration, Coffee/Tea & Fruit/Pastries |
| 8:30-8:45 am | Opening Amilcar Shabazz |
| Concurrent Sessions Round I | |
| 8.45-10.00am | Amiri Baraka Panel Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell, UMass “Specters of Marxism: The Marxian Influence on Amiri Baraka’s Cultural Nationalist Poetry” La Donna L. Forsgren, Defying Death: A Search for Black Manhood and the True Black Woman in Amiri Baraka’s Madheart and Martie Charles' Where We At? Mohammad Aljayyousi, Indiana University of PA “Poems That Scream: Orality / Aurality as a Form of Radicalism and Militancy in the Poetry of Amiri Baraka” |
| 8.45-10.00am | International Panel Grace Hampton and Mark Alan Herrin, Penn State “Festac 77 - A Cultural Milestone” Elizabeth Kai Hinton, Columbia University “Nixon’s War on Drugs and the Militarization of the Los Angeles Police Force: 1968-1973.” Robeson Frazier, University of California, Berkeley “The Limits of Tricontinental Solidarity” Samir Meghelli, Columbia University “The Battle From Algiers: Transnational Solidarities and The End of Black Power Abroad” Matthew Birkhold, SUNY Binghamton “Nothing But Negation: Black Power, New Communism, and the World-Economy” |
| 8.45-10.00am | BAM and Genre Studies John P. Bowles, University of North Carolina “The African American Performance Art Archive: Documenting Collaboration Collaboratively” Lloren Foster, Western Kentucky University ‘Consciousness and the Short Story” Aimee Glocke, University of Wyoming “Is the Black Aesthetic Dead?: Positing the Black Aesthetic as the Foundation for the Black Novel” Lars Lierow, George Washington University “The “Black Man's Vision of the World:” Rediscovering Black Arts Filmmaking and the Struggle for a Black Cinematic Aesthetic |
| Plenary Session | |
| 10.15-11.45am | Music Roundtable John Bracey, moderator Randy Weston Glen Siegel Terri Jenoure Frederick Tillis |
| Luncheon Plenary | |
| 12.00-1.45pm | Malcolm X Roundtable Bill Strickland Sonia Sanchez Rickey Hill James Turner Haki Madhubuti |
| 2.00-3.15pm | SNCC Plenary Ekeueme Michael Thelwell Judy Richardson Charlie Cobb |
| Concurrent Sessions Round IV | |
| 3.30-4:45pm | Women and BAM/Black Power Zahra Caldwell, UMass, “Black Power Foremother: Abby Lincoln, Music, Image, Representation And Black Womanhood in the 1960’s” Julie Burrell, UMass “A New Nation: Alice Childress Re-scripts Black Nationalism” Renee M. Kingan, College of William and Mary “Taking It Out!”: Jayne Cortez’s Collaborations with The Firespitters Luo Lianggong, Central China Normal University “Grow to Be a BAM Womanist”: Sonia Sanchez’s Evolution in the Black Arts Movement |
| 3.30-4:45pm | Ideology, Politics, and Aesthetics Vanessa Fabien, UMass “The Black Arts Movement: The Performance of An Environmental Ethic Post Civil Rights” Donald Geesling, UMass “Survival Kits on Wax": Gil Scott-Heron, The Black Arts Movement, and the Poetics of Resistance in the Age of Nixon” Gary Holcolmb, Ohio University “Audre Lorde’s Queer Black Marxism: Reimagining Black Arts” Charles Nero, Bates College “The Black Arts Movement and the Black Gay Generation of 1986: The Case of Melvin W. Dixon; Poet, Scholar, Novelist “ |
| 3.30-4:45pm | Black Power, BAM, and Ethnic Studies Kedong Liu and Li Fu, Harbin Institute of Technology “Attitudes toward Tradition in North American Ethnic Literature” Matthew Calihman, Missouri State University “Ishmael Reed and White Ethnic Revivalism” Markeysha Davis, UMass “Implicating Whiteness: Black Arts Movement Poetry and the Attack on the White Ideal? |
| 5:00-6:00pm | CAMPUS CENTER, Amherst Room (#1009) Keynote Address: Amiri Baraka |
| Dinner | |
| 8:00pm | FINE ARTS CENTER, BLACK BOX THEATRE Theatre reading of BAM Plays |
Saturday
| 8.30-9.00am | LINCOLN CAMPUS CENTER, Auditorium Lobby Registration, Coffee/Tea & Fruit/Pastries |
| Concurrent Sessions Round V | |
| 9.00-10.15am | BP/BAM on Campus Martha Biondi, Northwestern University “The Black Revolution on Campus” Stefan Bradley, St. Louis University "Black Student Power at Columbia University, 1967- 1969." Tina Pierce, Denison University “A Call for Black Power: A Political Analysis of Black Student Insurgency at The Ohio State University from 1969 to 1970” Dexter Blackman, Loyola Marymount “We are men first, athletes second”: Black Student- Athletes and the Black Students Movement in the Age of Black Power |
| 9.00-10.15am | RNA Panel Amilcar Shabazz, UMass Ahmed Obafemi, Community Activist Christian Davenport, Notre Dame Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University Edward Onac, University of Illinois Paul Karolczyk, Louisiana State University |
| Concurrent Sessions Round VI | |
| 10.30-11.45am | New Scholarship Panel Peniel Joseph, Tufts University Margo Crawford, Cornell University William Strickland, UMass Ibram H. Rogers, Rutgers University Chair: James Smethurst, UMass |
| 10.30-11.45am | Print Culture I Jonathan Fenderson, UMass “Renovating the Black World: Afro-Modern Festivities & Black Arts Internationalism, 1966-1977” Seth Markle, Trinity College “Reading for the Revolution: Drum and Spear Bookstore, Africa and Black Power Constructions of Popular Memory” Chris Tinson, Hampshire College “Harlem, New York! Harlem, Detroit! Harlem, Birmingham!” – Liberator Magazine and the Chronicling of Translocal Activism, 1963-1967” Brian Purnell, Bowdoin College “Agitate, Educate, Organize:” Black News and the Intersection of Black Art and Black Power Politics, 1969- 1983” |
| Luncheon Plenary | |
| 12.00-1.45pm | CAMPUS CENTER, Amherst Room (#1009) KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Sonia Sanchez |
| Concurrent Sessions Round VII | |
| 2.00-3.15pm | Local People Candy Tate, Clark Atlanta University “Visualizing Cultural Politics: Atlanta’s Neighborhood Arts Center (1975-1990)” Rickey Hill, Mississippi State Valley “The Bogalusa Movement: Self-Defense and Black Power In the Civil Rights Struggle” Kenneth R. Janken, University of North Carolina “The Several Faces of Black Power in Eastern North Carolina: The Case of the Wilmington Ten,” Ashley Farmer, Harvard University “Working Towards the Community is Our Full-Time Focus: Muriel Snowden, Black Power, and the Freedom House, Roxbury, MA” |
| 2.00-3.15pm | Continuing the Legacy: Artists and Aesthetics of the Black Arts Movement in Dialogue with Contemporary African American Artists and Artistic Practice Lydia Diamond, Boston University Kirsten Greenidge, Playwright Marcus Gardley, UMass Djola Branner, Hampshire College Priscilla Page, UMass Michael Simanga, Fulton County Arts Council |
| 2.00-3.15pm | Print Culture II Zachary Manditch-Prottas, Columbia University “The Revolution Will be Published: The Role of Prison Literature within the Black Power Movement” Ryan Burt, University of Washington ‘We publish black … for Africans here’: Amiri Baraka, Maulana Karenga, Haki Madhubuti and the Creation of an African Public Sphere” Tim Robinson, Old Dominion University “Society of Umbra and Umbra Magazine” Trevor Joy Sangrey, UC Santa Cruz “Politics on Paper: Origins and uses of pamphlet literature in the Black Power Movement” |
| Tribute to Writers & Poets Session | |
| 3.30-5:00pm | CAMPUS CENTER Authors giving readings & book signings |
| 5:00-6:15pm | Plenary Panel: Legacies of Black Power and Black Arts Judy Richardson Amiri Baraka Sonia Sanchez Nelson Stevens Eugene Redmond |
| DINNER On Your Own | |
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