Antiracism: Communities + Collaborations
CLCS 2021-2022
Antiracism: Communities + Collaborations allows the Center for Literary & Comparative Studies to carry our collective work from 2020-21 forward as we return to campus. Following the Mellon Foundation’s new emphasis on building “just communities,” “Antiracism: Communities + Collaborations” features scholarship, teaching, and public engagement to reimagine boundaries, model antiracist literary and rhetorical inquiry, and foster collaborative relations across and beyond campus. For some of these events, we are sharing copies of our guests' books with UMD registrants as part of our commitment to build connections among our community members. We are grateful to partner with Loyalty Books, a local, independent, Black-owned bookstore, to do so.
Antiracism: Communities + Collaborations builds on the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies’ 2020-2021 series, Antiracism: Research • Teaching • Public Engagement, which featured 66 speakers and 22 events, and registered over 3,000 people from 13 countries (with an archive of 19 videos and essays drawn from the series published in the Los Angeles Review of Books and forthcoming in Public Books and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation), the CLCS Steering Committee will sponsor a second year of antiracist programming in 2021-2022.
The series is sponsored by the Petrou Foundation and The Office of Graduate Diversity and Inclusion in the Graduate School.
Racial Trauma in the Classroom
Featuring Dr. Anneliese Singh, Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity/Chief Diversity Officer at Tulane University and Dr. Koritha Mitchell, Professor of English (UMD PhD, 2005) at Ohio State University. Moderated by Dr. Carlton E. Green, Director of Diversity Training & Education at the University of Maryland.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Harper, 2021) and The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan University Press, 2020) in conversation with Kerry Sinanan, Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas-San Antonio.
Eighteenth-Century Intertexts in Marlon James’ Fiction and Antiracist pedagogy
Cassander Smith (U of Alabama), Sheri-Marie Harrison (U of Missouri), Rebecca Barr (Jesus College, Cambridge), and Kerry Sinanan (University of Texas at San Antonio) will offer a roundtable discussion on Marlon James’ *The Book of Night Women*
Documentary Screening and Discussion of "Singing Our Way to Freedom"
Featuring Paul Espinoa (filmmaker), Sharada Balachandran (University of Maryland), and Manuel Cuellar (George Washington University).
Rupturing Antiblackness in English Education
Featuring panelists Justin Coles; Stephanie Toliver; Stephanie Jones; Jennifer Turner; Autumn Griffin and moderated by Rossina Zamora Liu.
"Re-Thinking Malcolm X: A Conversation with Peniel Joseph and Michael Sawyer"
Featuring Dr. Michael Sawyer (University of Pittsburgh) and Dr. Peniel Joseph (University of Texas at Austin).
Haunted: The Black Body as Ancestor and Spectre
Featuring Professor Bridget R. Cooks (University of California, Irvine) and co-sponsored by The Phillips Collection.
Booksellers and Community Activism
Featuring Ramunda Lark Young (Mahogany Books) and Angela Maria Spring (Duende District).
Diversity in/and Higher Education
Featuring Patricia A. Matthew (Montclair State University), Christy Pichichero (George Mason University) and moderated by Julius Fleming, Jr. (University of Maryland).
The Negro Intellectual and Her Crises: Black Women’s Studies through Spillers, Shadrack, and Sula
Featuring Casey Patterson, Stanford University (B.A. UMD 2016).
Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction
Featuring Heir to the Crescent Moon author Professor Sufiya Abdur-Rahman in conversation with Dr. Sheneese Thompson (Bowie State University).
Writers Here & Now featuring Mitchell S. Jackson & Cristina Rivera Garza
The MFA Program in Creative Writing & the Jiménez-Porter Writers' House present readings by Mitchell S. Jackson & Cristina Rivera Garza.
Antiracism and Graduate Education: Commitments and Challenges
Co-sponsored by the Graduate Studies Office and the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies.
Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III) and Rion Amilcar Scott in Conversation
Featuring Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III) and Rion Amilcar Scott.
"Teaching High School English in Prince George’s County"
Featuring Jasmine Winters (Frederick Douglass High School) and Brittni Guevara (Parkdale High School) and moderated by Dr. Anthony Batts II. Co-presented with the Committee for Antiracism, Accessibility, Respect, Equity and Social Justice (CAARES).
Indigenous Arts with Dr. Jolene Rickard, Citizen of the Tuscarora Nation
Featuring Dr. Jolene Rickard, Citizen of the Tuscarora Nation. Co-sponsored by The Phillips Collection.
Australia to Paraguay: Collaborating in a Colonial Archive
Featuring UMD graduate students, Aaron Bartlett, Lindsey O'Neil, and Justin Thompson with Professor Jason Rudy.
Nick Nesbitt in Conversation
Nick Nesbitt in conversation with Keisha Allan and John E. Drabinski.
Black Patience: A Colloquy
Featuring Professors Soyica Colbert (Georgetown U), Julius Fleming, Jr. (UMD), Kevin Quashie (Brown U), and Distinguished University Professor Emerita Mary Helen Washington.