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: 2:45-4:15Panel 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






