BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-3@sites.duke.edu DTSTART:20241101T090000Z DTEND:20241102T160000Z DTSTAMP:20241101T133142Z URL:https://sites.duke.edu/bail/events/african-studies-and-black-studies-i ntersections-genealogies-and-new-directions/ SUMMARY:African Studies and Black Studies: Intersections\, Genealogies and New Directions DESCRIPTION:African Studies and Black Studies: Intersections\, Genealogies and New Directions brings together scholars who think from a numbers of di sciplines and transdisciplinarily about the possibilities that come with w orking at the intersection of African Studies and Black Studies. While the y are distinct fields with their own trajectories and genealogies Black St udies and African Studies have historically shared a number of important c oncerns\; particularly around how racialization relates to state formation and sovereignty and how the historical and contemporary experiences of mi gration and diaspora have shaped the formation of identity\, nationally an d globally\, among African and African descended people. More recently\, s cholars across these fields have engaged with the planetary crises associa ted with climate change and the Anthropocene as symptomatic of the ongoing lives of racial capitalism and its colonial remains. This global view of blackness both acknowledges and complicates national frameworks as privile ged sites of knowledge-making while invoking the possibility of Global Bla ck Studies.\nDates: Friday\, Nov. 1\, 9am-4pm\, Saturday\, Nov. 2\, 9am-1p m\nLocations: Smith Warehouse\, Bay 4\, Black Archival Imagination Lab (Fr i. morning) and Bay 5\, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (Fri. afternoon and S at.) - (Hybrid - Zoom option as well)\nFree breakfast and lunch for partic ipants\nRSVP for in-person participation here\n\nZoom registration linked here\nSee below for the full program of the symposium.\n\nSymposium Progra m\n \;\n\nFriday\, Nov. 1\n\n \;\n\n9:00 – 9:30      Breakfa st\n\n9:30 – 10:00    Welcome\n\n10:00 – 11:30  Panel 1\n\nJordann a Matlon (American University)\, “Reading hegemony from the African colo nial project: Blackness\, masculinity\, and the évolué”\n\nSabine Moha med (Johns Hopkins)\, “Empire from the South: Between the idea of Ethiop ia and the politics of “medemer””\n\nRafael Cesar (Princeton Univers ity)\, “White Racelessness\, Black Voicelessness: On the Need of Black S tudies to Study Portuguese-Speaking Africa”\n\n \;\n\n11:30 – 13:0 0  Panel 2\n\n \;\n\nSharad Chari (UC Berkeley)\, “Scenes of Blackn ess from South African Indian Ocean Shores”\n\nWalter C. Rucker (Emory U niversity)\, “Theorizing Social Life as Mnemonic Praxis: The Implication s of the Early Modern Practice of Diaspora in Atlantic Africa”\n\nNatash a Shivji (University of Cape Town)\, “Writing a continental history from the ocean: the Indian Ocean and Pan Africanism”\n\n \;\n\n13:00 – 14:00  Lunch\n\n \;\n\n14:00 – 16:00  Panel 3\n\nTsitsi Jaji and Christopher Ouma (Duke University)\, “The African Literature Association : A Storied Account of Black Studies”\n\nErrol Henderson (Independent Sc holar)\, “The Narcissism of Small Differences: The Howard School and the Nexus between African and Black Studies”\n\nKristin Phillips (Emory Uni versity)\, “The Racial Vernacular of Energy Disparities: Othering &\; Electricity in East Africa &\; the US South”\n\nYousuf Al-Bulushi (U C Irvine)\, “Walter Rodney in Tanzania: The Diaspora and the Continent ”\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nSaturday\, Nov. 2\n\n \;\n\n9:00 – 9:30       Breakfast\n\n9:30 – 11:00    Panel 4\n\nJasmine E. Johnson (University of Pennsylvania)\, “Africa and Returns: On West African Dan ce Tourism”\n\nAdanna Ogbona-Oluikpe (Louisiana State University)\, “E ntangled Categories: Blackness\, Africanness and Racialized Spaces”\n\nM atthew Omelsky (University of Rochester)\, “Global Black Speculative Col lage”\n\n \;\n\n11:00 – 11:15  Tea break\n\n11:15 – 12:30  Key note\n\nKamari Clarke (University of Toronto)\, “Global Blackness and It s New Frontiers”\n\n12:30pm         Lunch CATEGORIES:symposium END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR