Genealogies & Futures of Black Aesthetics (2019)

10 am to 12 pm. Nikhil Pal Singh’s Petrou Seminar w/ UMD graduate students (2115 Tawes) [Please note: As of 04.24.19, pre-registration for the workshop is now closed.]

1:30-3 pm. Opening Remarks & Roundtable  (2115 Tawes)

Opening Remarks: Bonnie Thornton Dill, Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, UMD

• Shirley Moody-Turner (English & African American Studies, Penn State)
• Shaun Myers (English, University of Pittsburgh)
• Shirley Parry (English, Anne Arundel Community College)
• Christopher Brown (English, Wake Forest)
• Laura Williams (English, UMD)

Moderator: Robert Levine (English, UMD)

3:00-3:15 pm. Coffee Service. (Second Floor Atrium, Tawes Hall)

3:15-4:45 pm. Session 1: Gender & Radical Politics (2115 Tawes)

• Saidiya Hartman (English & Comparative Literature, Columbia) [unable to attend]
• Erik McDuffie (African American Studies & History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Moderator: I. Augustus Durham (President's Postdoctoral Fellow, English, UMD)

5-6:30 pm. Petrou Critic-In-Residence Keynote: "The Subject of Black Radicalism" (Ulrich)

Introduction: Mary Helen Washington (English, UMD)

• Nikhil Pal Singh (Social & Cultural Analysis and History, NYU)

6:30-8pm. Petrou Reception & After-hours Viewing of Posing Beauty in African American Culture (David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park)

8:30-9am. Coffee Service and Registration (First Floor Atrium, Tawes Hall)

9-9:30am. Welcome & Introductory Remarks (Ulrich)

• Amanda Bailey (English, Chair, UMD)
• Cheryl Wall (English, Rutgers)

9:30-11am. Session 2: Visual Culture & Radical Aesthetics (Ulrich)

• Simone Browne (African American and African Diaspora, UT Austin)
• Leigh Raiford (African American and African Diaspora, UC Berkeley)

Moderator: Jordana Moore Saggese (Art History & Archeology, UMD)

11-11:15am: Coffee Service (Second Floor Atrium, Tawes Hall)

11:15am-12:45pm. Session 3: Poetics & Performance (Ulrich)

• Soyica Colbert (African American Studies & Theatre and Performance, Georgetown University)
• Malik Gaines (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU)

Moderator: Julius Fleming, Jr. (English, UMD)

1-2pm. Lunch (Second Floor Atrium, Tawes Hall)

2:15-3:45pm. Session 4: Diasporas & Radical Politics (Ulrich)

• Margo Crawford (English, UPenn)
• Brent Edwards (English & Comparative Literature, Columbia)

Moderator: Chad Infante (English, UMD)

3:45-4pm: Coffee Service (Second Floor Atrium, Tawes Hall)

4-5:15pm. Session 5: Archives & Institutions (Ulrich)

• Stephanie Batiste (English, UC Santa Barbara)
• Robert Reid-Pharr (Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard)

Moderator: GerShun Avilez (English, UMD)

5:15-6pm. Refreshments and Edibles (Second Floor Atrium, Tawes Hall)

6-7:30pm. Closing Plenary Performance: "Put a Little Honey in my Sweet Tea" (Ulrich)

Introduction: Tabitha Chester (TDPS, UMD)

• E. Patrick Johnson (African American Studies & founder and director of the Black Arts Initiative, Northwestern)