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November 2017
American Studies Association: Combahee and Her Daughters: Black/Queer/Feminist/Women’s Practices of Survival and Resistance (panel workshop)
This panel convenes Black women who have conducted exceptional work engaging in daily and local projects of justice work. At a moment when interlocking oppressions of racism, homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, and more attempt to immiserate us daily in the United States, we are moved if…
Find out more »Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy: Women and Hate: Lynchings, Hate Groups, & Emmett Till (panel)
Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy 2017-18 Colloquium Series: Hate In A Period of Political Turmoil The Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy prioritizes collaborative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary exchanges, bringing scholars, policy makers, nongovernmental organization members and others to the University of California, Irvine…
Find out more »March 2018
Black Portraitures IV: Moderator: Black Women’s Fantasies in the Moving Image
Moderator: COURTNEY R. BAKER, Occidental College ROBIN J. HAYES, Founder of Progressive Pupil, and TIPHANIE YANIQUE, Wesleyan University – “Fortune Bay: Visualizing a Feminist History of America’s Battered Paradise, the US Virgin Islands” LEIGH RAIFORD – “Framing Diaspora: Kathleen Neal Cleaver’s Family Albums of Exile”…
Find out more »American Comparative Literature Association: “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Aesthetic Impulse” (presentation)
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…
Find out more »May 2018
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association: Of Blackness and Indigeneity
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…
Find out more »October 2018
Conference Presenter: ASAP/10 Association for the Study of Arts of the Present
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…
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