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Dartmouth College -April 9 and 10, 2010

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All lectures are free and open to all.

FRIDAY APRIL 9, 2010 

9.30–10am : Breakfast:    Foyer Haldeman 041

10.00–11.30am: Panel 1     Haldeman 041

• Ann duCille - Spectacular Blackness: Reflections on Race, Representation, and the Rise of Color(ed) Television
• Soyica Colbert - Spectacular Spectacles: Beyonce, Coco Fusco, and Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus
• Harry J. Elam, Jr. - Passing Strange, Blackness and the Politics of Realness

11.30 - 1.00pm: Lunch     Russo Gallery, Haldeman

1.00 - 2.30m:  Panel 2     Haldeman 041

• Glenda Carpio - Live and Smokin': Richard Pryor's Comic Genius
• Jennifer Brody - Still Movement/ Sculpture, Film and Performance
• E. Patrick Johnson - Black in Black Performance Studies

2.45 - 41.5pm: Panel 3     Haldeman 041

• Margo Crawford - Performing Freedom: Strategic Essentialism and the Black Arts Movement
• Maurice Wallace - King's Vibrato: Memory, Performance and the Alluring Martin Luther King Jr.
• Russell Rickford - Performing Black Nationhood: The Pan African Nationalist Vanguard and the Dialectic of the Masses, 1968–1972

5.00 - 6.30pm: 1st Keynote Address     Filene Auditorium

• Hortense Spillers - The Play of the Ear: The Audience and the Auditory

7.00pm: Cocktails and Conference Banquet      Hayward Lounge, Hanover Inn

SATURDAY APRIL 10, 2010

9.30 - 10.00am: Breakfast      Foyer Filene Auditorium

10.00 - 11.30pm:  2nd Keynote Address      Filene Auditorim

• Brent Hayes Edwards - Long Tongues: "Loft Jazz" and the Politics of Adaptation

11.30 - 12.30pm: Lunch      Cutter/Shabazz Lounge

12.45 - 2.15pm: Panel 4     Haldeman 041

• Tavia Nyong’o - Reckless Abandon: Practicing Black esthetics in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era
• Nicole Fleetwood - Troubling Vision: Toward a Theory of Non-Iconicity in Black Performance and Visual Cultures
• J. Martin Favor - The End(s) of Multiculturalism(s)

2.30 - 4.00pm: Panel 5     Haldeman 041  

• Harvey Young - History as Performance in J.T. Zealy's Daguerreotypes
• Robert J. Patterson - Woman Thou Art Bound: Critical Spectatorship, Black Masculine Gazes, and Gender Problems in Tyler Perry’s Movies
• Sandy Alexandre - Dumb Mouths:  Stupefaction & Emmett Till

4.15 - 5.45 pm: Panel 6     Haldeman 041

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• Faith Smith - At Home in France? (Anti-)Theatricality, Race, and the Screen
• Daphne Brooks - Planet Earth(a):  Afrocosmopolitanism, Sonic Transnationalism & the  Diasporic Politics of Eartha Kitt’s Cabaret

6.00 - 7.45pm: Cocktails and Dinner     Hayward Lounge, Hanover Inn

8.00pm: Bill T. Jones, Montogmery Lecture    Moore Auditorium, Hopkins Center