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Latest Past Events

Conference Presenter: ASAP/10 Association for the Study of Arts of the Present

Intercontinental New Orleans 444 St Charles Ave, New Orleans

Panel: Great Migrations: Blackness as Transgression in American Film Chair: Courtney R. Baker, Occidental College Presenters: Courtney R. Baker, Occidental College, “Sonic Invasions: The Queer and Black Registers of In Cold Blood” Mikal J. Gaines, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, “Wading in theWaters (or the Woods): Pastoral Imagery in Contemporary Independent Black Cinema” Robin… Continue reading Conference Presenter: ASAP/10 Association for the Study of Arts of the Present

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association: Of Blackness and Indigeneity

InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown 900 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles

Chair: Audra Simpson, Columbia University Participants: Fugitive Solidarity Phanuel Antwi, University of British Columbia Confederate Symbols and Indigenous Identities Malinda Lowery, University of North Carolina NdNs in the Black Mind: Possibilities, Tensions, & Why We Gon Be Alright Kyle Mays, University of California, Los Angeles Comment: Courtney R. Baker, Occidental College This panel focuses on rethinking the shared conditions of possibility for Indigenous and Black… Continue reading Native American and Indigenous Studies Association: Of Blackness and Indigeneity

American Comparative Literature Association: “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Aesthetic Impulse” (presentation)

University of California, Los Angeles 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles

Panel: The Aesthetics of Excess: Baroques, Blackness and the Will to Adorn This seminar considers the astonishing versatility of the baroque in aesthetic forms that criss-cross the division between "high" and "low" expressive cultures in Black Diasporic, European, Euro-American, and Latin American settings. Most of the contributors turn to recent art forms or genres--installation art,… Continue reading American Comparative Literature Association: “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Aesthetic Impulse” (presentation)