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 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
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 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