An Interdisciplinary Symposium Celebrating the Life and Scholarship of Nathan I. Huggins (1927-1989)
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The Department of African and African American Studies and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University Present
An Interdisciplinary Symposium Celebrating the Life and Scholarship of Nathan I. Huggins (1927-1989)
Conference Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
10.00-11.30 Panel moderated by Jeffrey Ferguson (Amherst College)
- David Weimer: African American Studies
- Carolyn Roberts: The Eighteenth-Century Trope of the Melancholic African in British Parliamentary Debates of the Slave Trade, 1788-1790
- Giovanna Micconi: Mules in Charles W. Chesnutt and Zora Neale Hurston
- Stephan Kuhl: Money, Exchange, Language in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
11.45-1.00 Round Table moderated by Randall Burkett (Emory University)
- Max Perry Mueller: Booker T. Washington in Utah: The Emergence and Demise of a Strategic Alliance between Conservative African Americans and Mormons, 1900-1965
- Ernest Julius Mitchell II: The Concept of the “Harlem Renaissance,” 1954-1974
- Lorraine Roses: “‘Much More than Friends’? Maud Cuney Hare, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Little Theatre Movement in Black Boston, 1925-1930
2.00-3.30 Panel moderated by Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University) and Martha Nadell (Brooklyn College)
- Gregory C. Baggett: “It was almost a happening”: Roy DeCarava’s The Sweet Flypaper of Life
- Emily Owens: On Butches and Buldaggers” Reading the L Word’s “Tasha”
- Erin Mosely: American Comics, African Wars: The Representational Limits of Joshua Dysart’s Unknown Soldier Series
- Holger Drössler: The Politics of Translation in Contemporary Global Hiphop Culture
3.45-5.00 Round Table moderated by Maren Stange (Cooper Union)
- Maren Stange: Civil Rights and Black Power Photography
- Alistaire Allen: Jimi Hendrix’s Hystrionic Heroics or Art as Socio-Cultural Agent
- Divinah (Payne) Shantefeire: Black Dance Music 1970-Present
Please contact the symposium organizers with any questions.
Amber Moulton-Wiseman – amoulton@fas.harvard.edu
Chérie Rivers – crivers@fas.harvard.edu
This symposium is free and open to the public.
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December 1st, 2009 @ 1:21 pm
Regarding: “Erin Mosely: American Comics, African Wars: The Representational Limits of Joshua Dysart’s Unknown Soldier Series”
Hi, I’m the writer of the above mentioned book. I deeply wish I could sit in on this panel. Sadly I’m way over here in Los Angeles. It would be amazing and informative for me to see the work deconstructed in this context. The book was always meant to satisfy two, seemingly opposing, desires. One was to deliver a commercially viable product based on a previously created character for Warner Brothers/DC Comics the other was to be as honest and truthful and non-exploitive to the conflict as possible, considering the first directive. It hasn’t been easy to satisfy both of these concerns.
I think a conversation about “The Representational Limits” of the work is long overdue. I am not East African and do not claim to think, act or speak like an East African, and even less so in a manor specific to one or any ethnic group in the region. This alone, despite exhaustive research and a month long stay in Acholiland, is cause for conversation. Add on top of that the limits of Western commercial viability and the perpetuation in the work of the continent as “hell on earth” despite many economic and social bright spots and you’ve got yourself a full blown panel.
I would only hope that Mr. Mosely has read beyond the first trade and into the eight other single issues that have been released, as number 7 is highly concerned with the faith and differences between two ethnic groups in the region (and was the product of several interviews I conducted with Acholi religious leaders and displaced Acholi in the Buganda kingdom). Issues 13 and 14 where drawn by and co-conceived with a political refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo. I don’t think the conversation will be complete without knowledge of those “chapters” in the story.
Have a great symposium!
Joshua Dysart (writer of “The Unknown Soldier”)