All panels will take place in the Red Barn at Hampshire College unless otherwise noted.
Friday, March 31, 2017
9:00 AM
Introductions:
Monique Roelofs (Philosophy, Hampshire College)
Michael Kelly (Philosophy, UNC Charlotte & Transdisciplinary Aesthetics Foundation)
9:30 AM—11:30 AM
Moderator:
Daniel Kojo Schrade (Art, Hampshire College)
Speakers:
Amy Abugo Ongiri (Film Studies, Lawrence College): “Seeing Black: Visual Culture and the Black Arts Movement”
GerShun Avilez (English & Comparative Literature, UNC Chapel Hill): “Queerness and the Black Radical Imaginary”
Jeremy Matthew Glick (English, Hunter College, CUNY): “Black Aesthetics: Questions on Method”
11:45 AM — 1:45 PM
Moderator:
Gabriel Arboleda (Architecture, Hampshire College)
Speakers:
Mabel O. Wilson (Architecture, Columbia University): “Notes of Virginia Statehouse: Race and Nation in Jefferson’s America”
Caitlin Cherry (Artist, Brooklyn): “Black Military Aesthetics”
Paul C. Taylor (Philosophy & African-American Studies, Penn State): “’Kindness and Good Usage’: Ambivalence, Africanism, and the Dialectics of Appropriation”
3:30 PM — 5:45 PM
Moderator:
Jennifer Bajorek (Comparative Literature, Hampshire College)
Speakers:
Simone White (Poet, Brooklyn): “Black/Poetry/Now”
Phillip Brian Harper (English & Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU): “Knowing It When We See It: On Blackness and Anti-Representational Aesthetics”
Kevin Quashie (Africana Studies, Smith College): “Aesthetics in Terrible Times”
Saturday, April 1, 2017
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Moderator: Albert Mosley (Philosophy, Smith College)
Speakers:
Daphne Lamothe (Africana Studies, Smith College): “Black Aesthetics and the Event of the Self”
James Haile III (Philosophy, University of Rhode Island): “Picturing Blackness”
Meleko Mokgosi (Art, New York University): “Black Skin, Black Paint”
11:45 AM — 1:45 PM
Moderator:
Jason Robinson (Music, Amherst College)
Speakers:
Mickaella Perina (Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston): “Questioning Aimé Césaire’s Plays: Aesthetics of Difference, Aesthetics of Resistance and Relationality”
Deborah Goffe (Modern/Contemporary Dance, Hampshire College): “See Me Here: Asserting Identity as Choreographic Strategy”
Anthony Cokes (Modern Culture and Music, Brown University): “pause (2004) a double reframing of text by james snead vs. notes on “pause: coda (hidden track – 2004)”
3:30 PM — 5:30 PM
Roundtable, R.W. Kern Center 203
Moderators: Michael Kelly & Monique Roelofs
Speakers: All Symposium Participants