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2010
Saturday, November 20th
8:30 AM

Registration, Coffee/Tea & Fruit/Pastries

Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

1 floor Registration Desk, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM

Concurrent Session: BP/BAM on Campus

Donald Geesling - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Concurrent Session: BP/BAM on Campus - A Call for Black Power: A Political Analysis of Black Student Insurgency at the Ohio State University from 1969 to 1970

Tina Pierce, Denison University

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Concurrent Session: BP/BAM on Campus - Black Student Power at Columbia University, 1967-1969

Stefan Bradley, St. Louis University

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Concurrent Session: BP/BAM on Campus - We are men first, athletes second’: Black Student-Athletes and the Black Students Movement in the Age of Black Power

Dexter Blackman, Loyola Marymount University

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Concurrent Session: Revolutionary Action Movement/Republic of New Afrika Panel

Amilcar Shabazz - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Muhammad Ahmad, Temple University
John Bracey, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Rondee Gaines, Georgia State University
Edward Onaci, University of Illinois
Askia Toure, Poet

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

10:30 AM

Concurrent Session: New Scholarship Panel

James Smethurst - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Peniel Joseph, Tufts University
Margo Crawford, Cornell University
William Strickland
Ibram H. Rogers, Rutgers University

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Concurrent Session: Print Culture I

Dayo Gore - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Concurrent Session: Print Culture I - Agitate, Educate, Organize: Black News and the Intersection of Black Art and Black Power Politics

Brian Purnell, Bowdoin College

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Concurrent Session: Print Culture I - Harlem, New York! Harlem, Detroit! Harlem, Birmingham!’: Liberator Magazine and the Chronicling of Translocal Activism, 1963-1967

Christopher Tinson, Hampshire College

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Concurrent Session: Print Culture I - Reading for the Revolution: Drum and Spear Bookstore, Africa and Black Power Constructions of Popular Memory

Seth Markle, Trinity College

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Concurrent Session: Print Culture I - Renovating the Black World: Afro-Modern Festivities & Black Arts Internationalism, 1966-1977

Jonathan Fenderson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

12:00 PM

Lunch Plenary: Keynote Address - Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez, Poet, Playwright, Teacher

Marriott Center, 11 floor, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM

2:00 PM

Concurrent Session: Continuing the Legacy: Artists and Aesthetics of the Black Arts Movement in Dialogue with Contemporary African American Artists and Artistic Practice

Priscilla Page - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Lydia Diamond, Boston University
Kirsten Greenidge, Playwright
Marcus Gradley, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Djola Branner, Hampshire College
Michael Simanga, Fulton County Arts Council

Room 101, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Concurrent Session: Local People

David Swiderski - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Concurrent Session: Local People - Memory, Cultural Fronts, and Black Public History in Cold War Chicago

Ian Rocksborough, University of Toronto

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Concurrent Session: Local People - The Bogalusa Movement: Self-Defense and Black Power In the Civil Rights Struggle

Rickey Hill, Mississippi Valley State University

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Concurrent Session: Local People - Visualizing Cultural Politics: Atlanta’s Neighborhood Arts Center (1975-1990)

Candy Tate, Clark Atlanta University

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Concurrent Session: Local People - Working Towards the Community is Our Full-Time Focus’: Muriel Snowden, Black Power, and the Freedom House, Roxbury, MA

Ashley Farmer, Harvard University

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Concurrent Session: Print Culture II

Jason Hendrickson - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Concurrent Session: Print Culture II - Politics on Paper: Origins and Uses of Pamphlet Literature in the Black Power Movement

Trevor Joy Sangrey, University of California - Santa Cruz

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Concurrent Session: Print Culture II - Society of Umbra and Umbra Magazine

Tim Robinson, Old Dominion University

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Concurrent Session: Print Culture II - The Revolution Will be Published: The Role of Prison Literature within the Black Power Movement

Zachary Manditch-Prottas, Columbia University

Room 162, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

3:30 PM

Film Screening: Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968

Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Tribute to Writers & Poets Session: Book signings by authors

Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Campus Center, Room 165, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tribute to Writers & Poets Session: Film Screening: Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968

Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

5:00 PM

Plenary Panel: Legacies of Black Power and Black Arts

William Strickland - Chair, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Judy Richardson, Filmaker
Amiri Baraka, Poet, Playwright, Critic, Teacher
Sonia Sanchez, Poet, Playwright, Teacher
Nelson Stevens, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Eugene Redmond, Southern Illinois University
Askia Toure, Poet

Room 163, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM