Autograph ABP in association with The Centre for the Study of Human
Rights at the London School of Economics presents:

DOCUMENTING DISAPPEARANCE:
Algeria, state terrorism and the photographic image

Panel discussion
Thursday 15 May 2008 6.30 – 8.00
at the New Theatre, LSE, East Building, Houghton Street
London, England

Stand Up! The New Politics of Racial Uplift
A Public Philosophy Symposium

Temple University

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

9am to 5pm

Kiva Auditorium and Tuttleman Learning Center, Room 101

For information about participants, schedule, and work by participants and material relevant to symposium themes, go to our website:

http://www.temple.edu/philosophy/standup/

Purpose of Symposium:

The Millions More Movement, Cosby's 'call-outs,' and other recent trends renew an old approach to black political thought and practice. The racial uplift tradition tries to improve the conditions of black life by insisting on moral refinement and race-based organization. Uplift ideology and practice have a long and storied past, but critics of the tradition worry over its limitations. Some express concern that it is anti-democratic, intolerant, elitist, sexist, and heterosexist. Others think it focuses too much on personal morality and cultural pathology and not enough on social justice and political economy.

The participants in the 'Stand Up!' symposium will think through the risks and rewards of this new racial uplift politics. This interdisciplinary exercise in public philosophy will explore the implications of a social phenomenon with broad ethical significance. The new politics of racial uplift emerges from a widely shared conviction that something is deeply wrong in American society. Our public philosophy conference will take this judgment seriously, and subject this politics to searching and critical scrutiny.

Confirmed Participants:

Angela D. Dillard, Afroamerican and African Studies and Residential College, LSA, at the University of Michigan

Kenyon Farrow, essayist, organizer, media and communications specialist, and board co-chair for Queers for Economic Justice

Kevin Gaines, Afroamerican and African Studies and History at the University of Michigan

Kathryn T. Gines, African American and Diaspora Studies and Philosophy at Vanderbilt University

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University and the Jamestown Project

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Women’s Research and Resource Center and the Women’s Studies at Spelman College

Joy James, Humanities and Political Science at Williams College and Senior Research Fellow in the Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas-Austin

Adolph Reed, Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania

Jared Sexton, African American Studies and Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine

Aishah Shahidah Simmons, AfroLez® Productions and award-winning African-American feminist lesbian documentary filmmaker, international lecturer, writer, activist, and producer, writer, and director of the internationally acclaimed documentary NO!

Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard University Law School and the Jamestown Project

Paul C. Taylor, Philosophy at Temple University and the Jamestown Project

Sponsors:

Temple University Department of Philosophy, the Office of the Provost, the College of Liberal Arts, the Center for Humanities at Temple, the Ira Lawrence Family Fund, and the Jamestown Project

The symposium is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Tamara K. Nopper, assistant organizer, at tnopper (at) temple.edu

Kalia Brooks @ WMA, New York

(this sounds fantastic. be there if you can!)

Kalia Brooks will be presenting a paper entitled, e-racial at the Whitney Independent Study Program Symposium at the Whitney Museum.

The paper will consider the avatar in Second Life as a type of electronic race.

When: Thursday, May 22, 7pm

Where: Whitney Museum of Art

945 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10021

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

"Ain't That a Groove" The Genius of James Brown Symposium Nov. 29-30

(click to enlarge)

Updated Event Schedule & Registration form available at:
http://www.princeton.edu/africanamericanstudies/news/events/

SAVE THE DATE - NOVEMBER 2ND, 2007

RECONSTRUCTING WOMANHOOD: A FUTURE BEYOND EMPIRE
A SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING THE WORK OF HAZEL V. CARBY

Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College,
Columbia University, New York, NY

Conference Schedule

9:30am
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University
**Coffee available to participants

10:00am
Keynote 1: "Paranoid Empire, Masculinities and Other War Zones"
               Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:15am
Keynote 2: "The Stranger's Work: Desire, Intimacy, Violence, and
Cultural
               Restoration"
               Robert Reid-Pharr, CUNY- Graduate Center

12:30
Lunch Break

2:00pm
Keynote 3:  "Reading and Reckoning Histories of Loss"
                Lisa Lowe, UC-San Diego/Yale University
(in-residence)
** Coffee available to participants

3:15pm
Keynote 4: "Reconstructing Manhood; or the Drag of Black
Masculinity"
               Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto

4:30pm
Closing Keynote: "Lost (and Found?) in Translation"
                Hazel V. Carby, Yale University

6:00pm
Reception

The symposium celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hazel Carby's
groundbreaking text, Reconstructing Womanhood, which traces the
emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural
reconstruction and examines the ways in which dominant racial and
sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's
fiction. The work of reconstruction announced by the title is
three-fold: it describes the efforts of nineteenth-century writers
and activists to redefine the meaning of womanhood and to challenge
the color-line that placed blacks outside the boundaries of the
human; it entails political efforts to transform and refashion the
state; and it encompasses the critical labor of imagining a future
beyond Man. Honoring the interdisciplinary significance of Carby's
scholarship in Literary and Cultural Studies, feminist theory,
critical race theory, Marxism, and post-colonial criticism, this
one-day symposium revisits the import of this work in relation to
an extended set of issues that include re-writing the human, the
production of disposable life, refashioning masculinities and queer
sexualities, and creating a world beyond empire.

The symposium is free but space is limited so please R.S.V.P. by
emailing fkb2104@columbia.edu.

The symposium has been made possible by the generous funding of the
following institutional partners:

Office of the Provost, Yale University; Institute for Research on
Women and Gender Studies, Columbia University; Women's Studies
Program, Duke University; Barnard Center for Research
on Women,Barnard College; Institute for Research in African American
Studies, Columbia University; Africana Studies, Barnard
College and Columbia University Libraries