Northwestern Events Calendar

Mar
13
2015

Beauty and the Black Diaspora Symposium

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When: Friday, March 13, 2015
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT

Where: 620 Library Place, 620 Library Place , Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Contact: Program of African Studies   (847) 491-7323

Group: Program of African Studies

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Description of symposium
The two-day symposium will discuss the power of Beauty as a philosophy, embodiment, and tactic that is employed across the Black Diaspora as it relates to justice. Themes from the symposium will discuss how African descended people appropriate the inseparability of beauty and justice as a tactic to both survive and flourish. The symposium will engage the following themes (1) popular media and postcolonial myth; (2) local rights and global activism; (3) political economy and urban strife; (4) sexuality and spectacular performatives. The symposium discussions will synthesize these themes into a re-imagining and re-articulation of blackness and radical democracy and of national strife and global consciousness by exploring the justness of invincible beauty.
FRIDAY, MARCH 13TH


Speakers’ Roundtable: 4:00pm to 5:30pm

“Dark Beauty and The Biopolitics of the Mirror in Viola Davis’ Performance in How To Get Away With Murder”

Introductory Comments:
D. Soyini Madison, Program of African Studies and Department of Performance Studies
Roundtable Discussants:
Renee Alexander Craft—Performance and Latin American Studies, UNC at Chapel Hill
Judith Hamera—Dance and Performance Studies, Princeton University
Kara Keeling—Film and American Studies, USC
Oykü Potuoğlu-Cook—Anthropology, UCLA

• Reception will Follow

 

Mar
14
2015

Beauty and the Black Diaspora Symposium

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When: Saturday, March 14, 2015
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CT

Where: 620 Library Place, 620 Library Place , Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Contact: Program of African Studies   (847) 491-7323

Group: Program of African Studies

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Description of symposium
The two-day symposium will discuss the power of Beauty as a philosophy, embodiment, and tactic that is employed across the Black Diaspora as it relates to justice. Themes from the symposium will discuss how African descended people appropriate the inseparability of beauty and justice as a tactic to both survive and flourish. The symposium will engage the following themes (1) popular media and postcolonial myth; (2) local rights and global activism; (3) political economy and urban strife; (4) sexuality and spectacular performatives. The symposium discussions will synthesize these themes into a re-imagining and re-articulation of blackness and radical democracy and of national strife and global consciousness by exploring the justness of invincible beauty.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14TH

Morning Panel: 9:00 to 10:30
To Trick the Devil: Beauty, Buffoonery, and Playing with the Master’s Tools
Renee Alexander Craft

Disrupt, Activate, Endure: Dissent as Radical Justice and Performative Beauty”
Oykü Potuoğlu-Cook

Break

Noon Speaker: 11:00 to 12:00

Beauty Against the Grain: Fierce Imagination and the Outrageous Outcast
Kara Keeling

Lunch

Afternoon Speaker: 1:00 to 2:00
"Wasted Beauty: Michael Jackson, This is It, and Exhausted Dance."
Judith Hamera

Break

Audience Wrap-up and Symposium Reflections: 2:30 to 3:00
Moderator: E. Patrick Johnson, Performance Studies and African American Studies, Northwestern University

Reception