Symposium: Aking The Atlantic World Turn: A Symposium in Honour of Carrol Smith-Rosenberg, 04.-05.12.2009, Michigan

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KEYNOTE
Friday, December 4, 2009. 4:00 p.m., UMMA Multipurpose Room

  • Dean Terry McDonald, University of Michigan: Welcome
  • Linda Gregerson, University of Michigan: Introduction
  • Joseph Roach, Yale University. The Return of the Last of the Pequots: Love, Ritual, and Disorderly Conduct

SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, December 5, 2009. 1014 Tisch Hall
9:00 a.m. Panel 1. Writing the Atlantic.

  • Arlene Keizer, University of California, Irvine. Chair
  • Jean Hébrard, EHESS & Institute for the Humanities. Zimeo, A Tale of the Atlantic World
  • Susan Scotti Parrish, University of Michigan. Richard Ligon’s Atlantic Science of Commonwealths

10:45 a.m. Panel 2. Arts of the Atlantic.

  • Penny Von Eschen, University of Michigan. Made on Stage: Transnational Performance and the Worlds of Katherine Dunham from London to Dakar
  • Ifeoma Nwankwo, Vanderbilt University and Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University. Reflections on Rhythms of the Atlantic

1:15 p.m. Panel 3. Figuring the Atlantic.

  • Sonya Rose, University of Michigan. Chair
  • Gustavo Verdesio, University of Michigan. Why the Atlantic?
  • Kevin Gaines, University of Michigan. Exile and the Private Life: James Baldwin, George Lamming, and the First World Congress of Negro Writers and Artists (1956)
  • Paul C. Johnson, University of Michigan. Occupied Bodies: The Work of „Possession“ in Black Atlantic Religions

3:00 p.m. Closing Remarks.

  • Phil Deloria, University of Michigan. Introduction
  • Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. Memories

Reception. Saturday, December 5, 2009, 4-6 p.m. UMMA Commons
Sponsored by the University of Michigan Program in American Culture, LS&A Dean’s Office, Department of History, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), and Department of Women’s Studies
Contact
Martha S. Jones, J.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies
2703 Haven Hall
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003
734.647.5421. ph. 734.647.4881. fax
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Visiting Professor of Law
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Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1215
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http://sitemaker.umich.edu/martha.s.jones
Reframing the Color Line: Race and the Visual Culture of the Atlantic World. An Exhibition and Symposium
http://www.clements.umich.edu/Exhibits/colorline/colorline.html
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-8073.html
Source: H-WOMEN@H-NET.MSU.EDU

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