American Studies Association: Combahee and Her Daughters: Black/Queer/Feminist/Women’s Practices of Survival and Resistance (panel workshop)
Hyatt Regency 151 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL, United StatesThis 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 Continue Reading ...
Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy: Women and Hate: Lynchings, Hate Groups, & Emmett Till (panel)
University of California, Irvine School of Law 401 E Peltason Dr, Irvine, CA, United StatesCenter 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 Continue Reading ...
Black Portraitures IV: Moderator: Black Women’s Fantasies in the Moving Image
Harvard University Faculty Dining Room 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesModerator: 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 Continue Reading ...
American Comparative Literature Association: “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Aesthetic Impulse” (presentation)
University of California, Los Angeles 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United StatesPanel: 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 Continue Reading ...
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association: Of Blackness and Indigeneity
InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown 900 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesChair: 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 Continue Reading ...
Conference Presenter: ASAP/10 Association for the Study of Arts of the Present
Intercontinental New Orleans 444 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, United StatesPanel: 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 Continue Reading ...