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Schedule of Events

 

Interrogating Issues of

Citizenship, Identity, Ethnicity, and Race



Friday March 30th


Opening Plenary: 1-2:30, Breidenbaugh Hall Room 201

Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow in the Government Law Center, Albany Law School  "Dred Scott: The Decision that Made Lincoln President"

First Session:  2:45-4:15

Panel 1.  Images & Uses of Blackness, Breidenbaugh Room  311
Jeffrey Ogbar, University of Connecticut, Chair
  • Erica Taylor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County : The Fruits of Our Labor: African American Women and Reproductive Policy
  • Marcy Sacks, Albion College: Joe Louis and the Mythology of Racial Equality
  • Jeffrey Ogbar, University of Connecticut: The Minstrel Reprise: Hip Hop and the Evolution of the Black Image in American Popular Culture

Panel 2.  The Place of Caribbean Identity, Breidenbaugh Room 205 
Florence Raymond Jurney, Gettysburg College, Chair

  • Alicia Carrington, Gettysburg College: No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff: Destabilization for Development
  • Jeremy Meehan, Gettysburg College: A Place for Identity in Selected Works by Julia Alvárez, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Edwidge Danticat
  • Alicia Batts, Gettysburg College: Clare's Search for Identity through People, Place, and Self in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven
  • Elizabeth Davies, Gettysburg College: Exile vs. Ex/Isle: Finding a Place to Belong in Selected Works by Caribbean Authors

Art Exhibition Opening: 4:30-7  Schmucker Art Gallery

Film: 5:15-6:30pm  Schmucker Room 215

Jorney of the Badiu: The Story of Cape Verdean-American Musican Norberto Tavares
A documentary by Dr. Susan Hurley-Glowa (55 minutes).  Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.

Dinner: 6:30-8

African Rhythm Machine at the Attic, Music and Dance Party:
Concert 9:00 p.m.
Dance Party 10:00 p.m.-midnight

Saturday March 31st


Registration and Breakfast 7:45-8:45, Science Center Atrium Lobby

Second Session:  9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Panel 3.  Artists' Roundtable, Science Room 200
Molly Hutton, Moderator, Gettysburg College
Frank Hallam Day; Andries Fourie; Claudia C.  Marchini; Christina M. Marsh; Issa Nyaphaga;
Takara Portis; John E. Rozelle; Lydia Thompson

Panel 4 Consequences of Citizenship, Race, & Law, Science Room 300
Jerry Philogene, Dickinson College, Chair

  • Tommy Curry, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: Keeping it Real, Real: Extricating the white man's Nigga from the modern concept of Ownership through Bell's Racial Realist account
  • Geneva Cobb Moore, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater: Danzy Senna's Caucasia: A Postmodern Novel of Neo-Slavery and Self-Liberation
  • Rashad Shabazz, University of California Santa Cruz: Kitchenettes, Black Communists, and 'Subversive Sex': An Analysis of the Penal Society in an American City


Third Session:  10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Panel 5. Black Citizenship, Publishing, and the Marketplace, Science 200
Ira Dworkin, Gettysburg College, Chair

  • Michael Benjamin, Drew University: Ties that Bind: Politics, Race Literature, and Citizenship
  • Tisha Ulmer, City University of New York : 'To Market, To Market': The Harlem Renaissance's Female Novelists, Advertising, and the Literary Marketplace
  • Alisha Knight, Washington College: Race(ing) into the Publishing Marketplace

Panel 6.  Methods of Resistance, Science 300
Daryl Brown, University of North Alabama, Chair

  • Rhone Fraser, University of South Florida: A Surviving Legacy: The Congressional Black Caucus and Nonviolent Activism
  • Daryl Brown, University of North Alabama: Both Sides of a Gun Barrel
  • Teri Fair, Suffolk University: Dynamics of Protest among Property: Evidence of Protest among Bondsmen of African Descent, 1699-1865


Lunch 12-1, Science Center Atrium

Fourth Session:  1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Panel 7: Music, History, and Protest, Science 200
Paul Austerlitz, Gettysburg College, Chair

  • Ralph Russell, the College of New Jersey: We Insist! Freedom Now Suite. Themes of Struggle, Liberation and Identity
  • Travis Jackson, University of Chicago
  • Lewis Gordon, Temple University

Panel 8. Imagining Citizenship, Science 300
Timothy McCarthy, Harvard University, Chair 

  • Kelly Selby, Kent State University: 'Exactly as Though Claimant was a White Woman:' Race, Gender, and Civil War Pensions for Wives and Mothers of the 27th United States Colored Troops
  • Timothy McCarthy, Harvard University: From Slaves to Citizens:  The Strange Career of American Equality
  • Cary Fraser, The Pennsylvania State University: Boundaries, Race, and Citizenship in early 20th Century America

Fifth Session:  2:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.

Panel 9 Musicians' Roundtable, Creativity in the African Diaspora, Science 200
Paul Austerlitz, Moderator

  • Paul Austerlitz, Gettysburg College
  • Michael Veal, Yale University
  • Dominic Kanza
  • Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng

Panel 10. The Many Faces of the Francophone African Diaspora, Science 300
Lynn Johnson, Dickinson College, Chair

  • Florence Ramond Jurney, Chair, Gettysburg College
  • Marc Pape, Dickinson College
    Boubakary Diakité, Franklin and Marshall College
  • Alain Patrice Nganang, Shippensburg University

Closing Plenary  4:30-5:45 p.m., Breidenbaugh Hall Room 201

Alfred Brophy, University of Alabama Law School: Realistic Reparations              

                                                                                  

 
 
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