Friday, November 19

BLACK BOX THEATRE - Theatre reading of BAM Plays

Amilcar Shabazz — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:00:00 PST

This evening of excerpts will showcase the work of seminal playwrights Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, and Sonia Sanchez alongside contemporary writers Lydia Diamond, Kirsten Greenridge and Lenelle Moise.

Dinner

Amilcar Shabazz — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:30:00 PST

Social

Amilcar Shabazz — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:00:00 PST

Keynote Address: Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:00:00 PST

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

Markeysha Davis — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:30:00 PST

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

Kedong Liu et al. — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:30:00 PST

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

Matthew Calihman — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:30:00 PST

Concurrent Session: Black Power, BAM, and Ethnic Studies

James Smethurst - Chair — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:30:00 PST

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 — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:30:00 PST

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

Gary Holcomb — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:30:00 PST