Schedule: 2019

Monday, June 17th

2:00 - 6:30 PM - Participant Check-In (Occom Commons)

7:00 - 7:30 PM - Opening Session and Seminar Orientation (Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall)

7:30 PM-10:30 PM - Plenary: “Ontologies of Vibration” (Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall)

Professor Jennifer Stoever (SUNY Binghamton), “You Better Listen to Aretha when She Sings 'Respect': Hip Hop, Record Collecting, and Black Feminist Listening Praxis"
Professor Alexandra Vazquez (NYU), TBA
Professor Emily Lordi (Vanderbilt), "The Sound and Meaning of Soul"

10:30 PM – Welcome Reception (Filene Foyer, Moore Hall)

9:15 AM-12:30 PM – Plenary: "José Muñoz’s Futurity Now" (Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall)

Professor Jack Halberstam (Columbia University), "Into the Wild with Jose Muñoz"
Professor Ricardo Montez (New School), "Ephemera’s Reach"

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Seminar Rooms

7:30 - 10:30 PM – Plenary: "Contemporary Refugee Crisis" (Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall)

Professor Sonya Posmentier (NYU), "Imagining Environmental Sanctuary"
Professor Yogita Goyal (UCLA), "Aesthetics of Refuge: Migration and the Claims of Universalism"
Professor Donatella Izzo (University of Naples Orientale), "Narratives from the Watery Walls"

9:15 AM-12:30 PM – Plenary: "Latinx Queer Studies" (Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall)

Professor Lawrence La Fountain Stokes (University of Michigan), "The Life and Times of Trans Activist Sylvia Rivera"
Professor Karen Jaime (Cornell), "Brown Butch Aesthetics: Performing Latina/o/x Masculinities"
Professor Israel Reyes (Dartmouth), "Decolonizing Queer Camp in Edwin Sánchez’s Diary of a Puerto Rican Demigod"

2:00 PM- 5:00 PM - Seminar Rooms

5:15 - 6:45 PM - Barbecue (Tuck Drive)

9:15 AM-12:00 PM – Plenary: "Settler Colonialism and the Question of Sovereignty" (B03, Moore Hall -- NOTE ROOM CHANGE)

Professor Shona N. Jackson (Texas A&M), "Grammar and Sovereignty"
Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern), "The Plantationocene and the Performative Commons"
Professor N. Bruce Duthu (Dartmouth), "Is 'Belonging' a Political or Racial Classification? Tribal Sovereignty, Citizenship & the Right to an Indigenous Culture"

2:00 PM- 5:00 PM - Seminar Rooms

9:15 AM-12:00 PM – Plenary: "Re-Thinking Afro-Pessimism" (Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall)

Professor Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown), "Lorraine Hansberry’s Formative Years"
Professor Paige McGinley (Washington University, St. Louis), "On Action and Acting"
Professor Kevin Quashie (Brown), "The Ethics of Black Aliveness/Toward the Black Ethical"
Professor Robert Patterson (Georgetown), "Post Afro-Pessimism?: How to Live and Thrive in the Face of Death"

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM – Seminar Rooms

3:00 - 6:00 PM – Plenary: "Celebrating Professor Hortense Spillers" (Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom)

Professor Joshua Bennett (Dartmouth), "NobodyKnewWhereIWasandNowIAmNoLongerThere: Gwendolyn Brooks, Hortense Spillers, and the future life of black poetics"
Professor Saidiya Hartman (Columbia University), "N Folio"
Professor Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt), Respondent

6:30 - 11:00 PM – Banquet (Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom)

11:00AM - Participant Checkout