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2010
Friday, November 19th
8:00 AM

Registration, Coffee/Tea and Fruit/Pastries

Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Campus Center Auditorium Lobby, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Opening

Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

8:45 AM

Concurrent Session: Amiri Baraka Panel

Johanna Ortner - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: Amiri Baraka Panel - Poems That Scream’: Orality/Aurality as a Form of Radicalism and Militancy in the Poetry of Amiri Baraka

Mohammad Aljayyousi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: Amiri Baraka Panel - Specters of Marxism: The Marxian Influence on Amiri Baraka’s Cultural Nationalist Poetry

Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: BAM and Genre Studies

Crystal Donkor - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: BAM and Genre Studies - Consciousness and the Short Story

Lloren Foster, Western Kentucky University

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: BAM and Genre Studies - Is the Black Aesthetic Dead?: Positing the Black Aesthetic as the Foundation for the Black Novel

Aimee Glocke, University of Wyoming

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: BAM and Genre Studies - The African American Performance Art Archive: Documenting Collaboration Collaboratively

John P. Bowles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: BAM and Genre Studies - The Black Man's Vision of the World: Rediscovering Black Arts Filmmaking and the Struggle for a Black Cinematic Aesthetic

Lars Lierow, George Washington University

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: International Panel

Jonathan Fenderson - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: International Panel - Festac 77 - A Cultural Milestone

Grace Hampton, Pennsylvania State University
Mark Alan Herrin, Pennsylvania State University

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: International Panel - Nixon’s War on Drugs and the Militarization of the Los Angeles Police Force: 1968-1973

Elizabeth Kai Hinton, Columbia University

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: International Panel - Nothing But Negation: Black Power, New Communism, and the World-Economy

Matthew Birkhold, State University of New York - Binghamton

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: International Panel - The Battle From Algiers: Transnational Solidarities and the End of Black Power Abroad

Samir Meghelli, Columbia University

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Concurrent Session: International Panel - The Limits of Tricontinental Solidarity

Robeson Frazier, University of California - Berkeley

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

10:15 AM

Plenary Session: Forty Years of Black Music in the Pioneer Valley

John Bracey - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Randy Weston, Musician
Glen Siegel, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Terry Jenoure, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Frederick Tillis, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

12:00 PM

Luncheon Plenary: Malcolm X Roundtable

William Strickland - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Sonia Sanchez, Poet, Playwright, Teacher
Rickey Hill, Mississippi Valley State University
James Turner, Cornell University
Haki Madhubuti, Poet, Publisher, Teacher

Amherst Room, 10 floor, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM

2:00 PM

SNCC Plenary

Ekwueme Michael Thelwell - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Judy Richardson, Filmmaker
Charlie Cobb, Brown University

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

3:30 PM

Concurrent Session: Black Power, BAM, and Ethnic Studies

James Smethurst - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Black Power, BAM, and Ethnic Studies - Attitudes Toward Tradition in North American Ethnic Literature

Kedong Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology
Li Fu, Harbin Institute of Technology

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Black Power, BAM, and Ethnic Studies - Implicating Whiteness: Black Arts Movement Poetry and the Attack on the White Ideal

Markeysha Davis, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Black Power, BAM, and Ethnic Studies - Ishmael Reed and White Ethnic Revivalism

Matthew Calihman, Missouri State University

Room 165, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Ideology, Politics, and Aesthetics

Ernest Gibson - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Ideology, Politics, and Aesthetics - 'Survival Kits on Wax’: Gil Scott-Heron, The Black Arts Movement, and the Poetics of Resistance in the Age of Nixon

Donald Geesling, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Ideology, Politics, and Aesthetics - Audre Lorde’s Queer Black Marxism: Reimagining Black Arts

Gary Holcomb, Ohio University

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Ideology, Politics, and Aesthetics - The Black Arts Movement and the Black Gay Generation of 1986: The Case of Melvin W. Dixon: Poet, Scholar, Novelist

Charles Nero, Bates College

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Ideology, Politics, and Aesthetics - The Black Arts Movement: The Performance of An Environmental Ethic Post Civil Rights

Vanessa Fabien, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Women and BAM-Black Power - A New Nation: Alice Childress Re-scripts Black Nationalism

Julie Burrell, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Women and BAM/Black Power

Flavia Santos de Araujo - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Women and BAM/Black Power - Black Power Foremother: Abby Lincoln, Music, Image, Representation and Black Womanhood in the 1960’s

Zahra Caldwell, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Women and BAM/Black Power - Grow to Be a BAM Womanist: Sonia Sanchez’s Evolution in the Black Arts Movement

Luo Lianggong, Central China Normal University

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Concurrent Session: Women and BAM/Black Power - Taking It Out!: Jayne Cortez’s Collaborations with The Firespitters

Renee M. Kingan, College of William and Mary

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

5:00 PM

Keynote Address: Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka, Poet, Playwright, Critic,Teacher

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM

Social

Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Hadley Room, 10 floor, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

6:30 PM

Dinner

Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Amherst Room, 10 floor, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

8:00 PM

BLACK BOX THEATRE - Theatre reading of BAM Plays

Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM