run, don't walk

I can't believe I'm missing this (I had a conflict)! As the kids say, I stan for Zanele, but also look at the rest of this lineup. The symposium is this weekend at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, in conjunction with the exhibition which recently opened (there's a catalog, too).

Zanele Muholi, Miss D'vine

http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/frenchstudies/events/index.asp?id=9407

Diasporic Bodies and Visual Culture: Contemporary African and African Diaspora Art Perspectives
A Department of History of Art and Visual Studies Annual Graduate Symposium Program Friday, April 11 2:00 p.m. Amanda Gilvin Welcome Symposium Co-organizer 2:05 p.m. Professor Shirley Samuels Opening Remarks Chair of the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies Guest Speaker 2:15 p.m. Dr. Anthony Downey Beyond Identity Politics: Excessive Identities in the Work of Yinka Shonibare, Aimé Ntakiyika, and Samuel Fosso Program Director of the M.A. in Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London 3:15 p.m. Break Session One Moderator: Professor Diane Butler Visiting Assistant Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University 3:30 p.m. Dwan McClendon Wangechi Mutu: Female Figures and the Discourse of Destruction Kent State University, Ohio 4:00 p.m. Rose Oluronke Ojo Disrobing the Hero in Renee Cox's "Raje" and Yinka Shonibare's "Diary of A Victorian Dandy" Series School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London 4:30 p.m. Break Keynote Address 5:00 p.m. Professor Salah Hassan Keynote Introduction Lalla Assia Essaydi Continuity and Change: Veiled Realities Artist 6:30 p.m. Reception Saturday, April 12 10:00am Coffee and Tea Session Two Moderator: Professor Iftikhar Dadi Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University 10:30 a.m. Zakiyyah Jackson The Perversity of Power and Violence in Kara Walker's 'Battle of Atlanta: Being a Narrative of a Negress in the Flames of Desire' University of California, Berkeley 11:00 a.m. Jon Senchyne Face, Race, Revolution: Facial Representation in Alain Locke's The New Negro and Richard Wright's Native Son Cornell University 11:30 a.m. Gabriel Peoples "Slavery Cannot Be Destroyed, But Only Change Form": Implications for the Status of Black Men in the Public Media in Hank Willis Thomas's B®anded and Unbranded Exhibitions Cornell University 12:00 p.m. Lunch Break Session Three Moderator: Professor Dagmawi Woubshet Assistant Professor, Department of English, Cornell University 1:00 p.m. Zanele Muholi Gay(zing) Body, Image, Beauty, and Landscape Ryerson University 1:30 p.m. Danielle M. Snoddy "I Am an Activist First—Then an Artist": The Photographic Work of Zanele Muholi University of Iowa 2:00 p.m. Kevin Dumouchelle Beyond the Body Boundary: Queer{y}ing the Photographs of Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Samuel Fosso Columbia University 2:30 p.m. Break Session Four Moderator: Professor Maria Fernandez Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University 2:45 p.m. Jessica Hurd Breathing Body, Winding Snake: A Reevaluation of Body Symbolism in Dogon Art, Performance, and Village Design Indiana University 3:15 p.m. Laila Shereen Sakr On Performing Arab New Media University of California, Santa Cruz 3:45 p.m. Dan Jakubowski Julie Mehretu and the Global Community Graduate School of the History of Art and Design at the Pratt Institute 4:15 p.m. Closing Remarks
	Africana Studies and Research Center, the GPSAFC, Department of Anthropology, Department of Art, Institute of European Studies, Institute for German Culture Studies, Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance, Department of German Studies, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Society for the Humanities, Rose Goldsen Lecture Series, and the College of Art, Architecture, and Planning
	April 11, 2008 - through - April 12, 2008

Black Womanhood: Icons, Images, and Ideologies of the African Body

http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibitions/blackwomanhood/bwpressrelease.html