2014 BAM Conference Schedule Update

Art by Elizabeth Cattlett Mora, fusion of Black Art/Black Power

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2014

1^ST Floor Lantern (Kolligian Library)

8:00 –  8:30 AM         Registration, Coffee/Tea and Light Refreshments

8:40 – 9:00 AM          Welcoming Remarks by Gregg Camfield, Professor, UC Merced

9:10 -  10:20AM         Multicultural Panel (Lakireddy Auditorium)

                                    Belva Davis, Panel Moderator

                                    Juan Felipe Herrera, California Poet Laureate

                                    Genny Lim, Poet & Activist

                                    Al Young, California Poet  Laureate Emeritus

Manuel Martin-Rodriguez, UC Merced Professor

10:30  - 11:20 AM      Introduction of Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka

by Jimmy Garrett & Marvin X

11:30 – 12:45 PM       Black Power and Black Arts Roundtable (Lakireddy Auditorium)

                                    Nigel Hatton, Moderator

                                    Sonia Sanchez, Poet, Playwright, Teacher

                                    John Bracey, UMass Amherst

                                    James Smethurst, UMass Amherst

                                    Amiri Baraka, Producer, Writer, Activist

                                    Marvin X, Playwright, Activist

                                   

12:45  – 1:45 PM        Luncheon

  2:00  – 2:40 PM        Marvin X, Keynote Speaker

  2:45  – 3:45 PM        Original Gangsta Poets

                                    Marvin X, MC

Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Al Young, Juan Felipe Herrera

                                    Genny Lim, Judy Juanita

4:15  –   5:40 PM        Northern and Central California Voices of the Black Arts Movement Installation

                                    Merced Multicultural Arts Center

                                    Amiri Baraka (Moderator)

S.O.S. – Calling All Black People:  A Black Arts Movement Reader

Discussion with editors:  John H. Bracey Jr., Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst

6:00 – 7:00                  Dinner

7:15  –  10:00 PM       Theatre of the Black Arts Movement

Introductions by Shipu Wong and Kim McMillon

(Excerpts from the plays of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Marvin X, Ishmael Reed, Lorraine Hansberry, Judy Juanita, and George Wolfe) Performed by Michael Lange, Adilah Barnes, and UC Merced Students

(Must have purchased ticket for this event)

SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2014

           

                                    Lantern, 1^st Floor Kolligian Library

8:30 –  9:00 AM         Registration, Coffee/Tea and Refreshments

9:15 – 10:15 AM        Central Valley Voices of the Black Arts Movement

Nigel Hatton, Moderator

(Student Papers)

Give Birth to Brightness: A Thematic Study of Neo-Black Literature by Central Valley author Sherley Anne Williams  

Marvin X, Somethin' Proper, the Autobiography of Marvin X

10:20 – 11:30 AM      New Scholarship on the Black Arts and Black Power Movement (Lakireddy Auditorium)

                                    Mike Sell, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Moderator)

                                    James Smethurst, University of Mass, Amherst

                                    Sonia Sanchez, Poet & Playwright

                                    Marvin X, Playwright

                                    Amiri Baraka, Playwright

                                    Sean Malloy, Professor,  UC Merced

11:40 – 12:45 AM      Black Studies & the Black Arts Movement

                                    Ishmael Reed (Moderator)

Dr. Nathan Hare

                                    Jerry Varnado

Terry Collins

James (Jimmy) P. Garrett

Judy Juanita

                                   

1:00  –   2:00 PM        Lunch

2:15  –– 3:00 PM        Ishmael Reed, Poet, Playwright, & Activist

Keynote Speaker

3:15  –   4:30 PM        Black Panthers & The Black Arts Movement

                                    Billy Jennings, founder, Panther Exhibit

                                    Sean Malloy, Professor, UC Merced

                                    Emory Douglas

Hotel:  Hampton Inn in Merced, CA will offer room discounts to conference attendees.