Race and Displacement Symposium Tentative Schedule

Race and Displacement Symposium Tentative Schedule

THURSDAY, OCT. 1

*Times TBA*: Pick up participants at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport with University vans

4pm: Formal welcome to participants; hand out materials (folders, etc.) and answer any questions

*location TBA

7:30pm: Houston Baker keynote lecture
Location: Gorgas Library room 205.
Reception and book signing to follow.

Daytime events/speaker panels are all held at the Bryant Conference Center, located at 240 Bryant Drive on The University of Alabama Campus.


FRIDAY, OCT. 2

Location: Bryant Conference Center

8-9am: Coffee and refreshments


9-10:30am: PANEL 1: RACE AND BODIES

Participants:

Regina N. Barnett (Florida State U), “Lady Eve’s Garden Sings the Blues: Manifestations of Ájé in Gloria Naylor’s Bailey’s Café”

Ashon T. Crawley (Duke U), “He gay…: Rumor, Gossip and the Black Gospel Sound”

Deborah Katz (Brown U), “The Practice of Embodiment: Transatlantic Crossings and Black Female
Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand”

Matt Dischinger (U of Alabama), “Returning from ‘Beyond the Bridge’: Postcolonial Hybridity in
Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day”

10:30-11am: Break

11am-12:30pm: PANEL 2: RACE AND PLACE

Participants:

Lauren Vedal (U of Wisconsin-Madison), “Immigrant Desire: Contesting Canadian Safety and Whiteness in In Another Place, Not Here”

Melanie Fritsch (U of Tübingen), “The Traveling Subject: Natural Rights Discourse in The Narrative of Robert Adams”

Walter Bosse (U of Cincinnati), “Upon the Public Highways: Travel and Race in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition”

12:30-2pm: LUNCH (location TBA)

2:30-4pm: PANEL 3: RACE AND NATION

Participants:

Cassander L. Smith (Purdue U), “Washing the Ethiop Red: Sir Francis Drake’s Narrative Struggle with the Cimarrons of Panama”

Delia Hagen (U of California at Berkeley), “Nations, Migration, and Métis Subsistence Possibilities,
1860-1940”

Abigail Manzella (Tufts U), “Disorientation: Julie Otsuka’s Imprisoned Places”

4-5pm: Break

5:30-7pm: Dinner with Keynote Speakers and Conference Participants (location TBA)

7:30pm: Keynote Lecture/Performance by Marquetta Goodwine (Queen Quet)

Location: Morgan Auditorium

***Evening festivities TBA! Bring your dancing shoes!

SATURDAY, OCT. 3

Location: Bryant Conference Center

8-8:30am: Coffee and Refreshments

8:30-10am: PANEL 4: RACE AND IMAGINATION

Participants:

Jonathan Glover (U of Florida), “Moreau avec Cuvier, Kant avec Sade: Saint Domingue, Sara Baartman, and the Technologies of Imperial Desire”

Yumi Pak (UC San Diego), “An Oracular Swan-song?: American Literary Modernism, Modernity, and the Trope of Lynching in Jean Toomer’s Cane”

Kathrin Kottemann (U of New Orleans), “Cultural Schizophrenia and Post-Colonial Identity in Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain and Bernadine Evaristo’s Lara”

Laura Jones (Louisiana State U), “Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union:’ Was It a Post-Racial Moment?”

10-10:30am: Break

10:30am-12pm: (all) Roundtable Discussion: Description TBA