"Star Children" by Delita Martin (2019)
2022 Program
All events will take place at the Hanover Inn in the Ford Sawyer/Brewster Room
Schedule of Events (all listed times are in EST)
Day One: Thursday, Nov. 3
Continental Breakfast: 8:00am-9:00am
Introductory Remarks: 9:00am-9:30am
Session I: 10:00am-12:00pm
Brendane Tynes (PhD Candidiate, Columbia University, Anthropology)--VIRTUAL SPEAKER
Lunch: 12:10pm-1:20pm
Session II: 1:30-3:30pm: ALL VIRTUAL SPEAKERS
Panel #1: Jasmine Abukar (Clinical Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, Higher Education and Student Affairs) and Lori Patton (Professor and Chair, The Ohio State University, Educational Studies)
Keynote #1: 4:00-5:30pm
Speaker: Joy James (Professor of Humanities, Williams College)
Day Two: Friday, Nov. 4
Continental Breakfast: 8:00am-9:00am
Session III: 9:00-11:00am: ALL VIRTUAL SPEAKERS
Destiny Crockett (PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania, English)
Lunch: 11:30am-12:30pm
Session IV (Graduate Student Panel): 12:00-1:30pm
Spencer Nabors (PhD Candidate, Northwestern University, Philosophy)--VIRTUAL SPEAKER
Session V: 2:00-4:00pm
Crystal Felima (Asst. Prof., University of Kentucky, Anthropology)--VIRTUAL SPEAKER
“Womanist Grounding: The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Black Women Survivors Resilience and Recovery”
Session VI: 4:15-6:15pm
Corbin Covington (PhD Candidate, Northwestern University, Philosophy)--VIRTUAL SPEAKER
Dinner: 7:00pm-9:00pm (Closed to Conference Participants)
Day Three: Saturday, Nov. 5
Continental Breakfast: 8:00am-9:00am
Session VII: 8:30-10:30am
Shelby Sinclair (PhD Candidate at Princeton University, History and African American Studies and Thurgood Marshall Fellow at Dartmouth College, AAAS)--VIRTUAL SPEAKER
Session VIII: 10:45am-12:45pm
Marsha Myrie (Postdoc, University of Guelph, President’s Gender Equity Committee/Grounded and Engaged Theory Lab)
Lunch: 12:45pm-1:45pm
Invited Talk: 1:30-2:30pm
Speaker: Tempest Henning (Asst. Prof. of Philosophy, Fisk University)
Keynote #2: 3:00pm-4:30pm—VIRTUAL SPEAKER
Speaker: Omise’eke Tinsley (Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Black Studies)
Closing Remarks: 4:30-4:45pm
Day One: Thursday, Nov. 3
Continental Breakfast: 8:00am-9:00am
Introductory Remarks: 9:00am-9:30am
Session I: 10:00am-12:00pm
Brendane Tynes (PhD Candidiate, Columbia University, Anthropology)--VIRTUAL SPEAKER
- “Can’t Find Any Use for Us Alive/Not Knowing We Can’t Die”: Radically Reimagining the (After)Lives of Black Women and Girls
- "The Politics of Black Mourning and Melancholia"
Lunch: 12:10pm-1:20pm
Session II: 1:30-3:30pm: ALL VIRTUAL SPEAKERS
Panel #1: Jasmine Abukar (Clinical Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, Higher Education and Student Affairs) and Lori Patton (Professor and Chair, The Ohio State University, Educational Studies)
- “Education and Marginality Revisited: An Intersectional Analysis of Doctoral Research by and about Black Women, 1942-2022”
- “Towards Embracing Black Women’s Embodiment of Liberatory Emotional Justice in the Academy”
Keynote #1: 4:00-5:30pm
Speaker: Joy James (Professor of Humanities, Williams College)
- "Captive Maternal (In)Coherence: Feminism Meets Fascism"
Day Two: Friday, Nov. 4
Continental Breakfast: 8:00am-9:00am
Session III: 9:00-11:00am: ALL VIRTUAL SPEAKERS
Destiny Crockett (PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania, English)
- "Not/Womanish Girls and African American Women's Language"
- “Reconnaissance: Francophone African Women’s Ethnography and Black Feminisms”
Lunch: 11:30am-12:30pm
Session IV (Graduate Student Panel): 12:00-1:30pm
Spencer Nabors (PhD Candidate, Northwestern University, Philosophy)--VIRTUAL SPEAKER
- “Embodied Interpellation”
- “The Du Boisian Sociology of Irene Diggs. Gender, Colonialism, and the Latin American Color Line”
Session V: 2:00-4:00pm
Crystal Felima (Asst. Prof., University of Kentucky, Anthropology)--VIRTUAL SPEAKER
- “Disaster Vulnerabilities, Transversal Risk: US Empire, Racial Capitalism x Ecological Crises in Haiti”
“Womanist Grounding: The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Black Women Survivors Resilience and Recovery”
Session VI: 4:15-6:15pm
Corbin Covington (PhD Candidate, Northwestern University, Philosophy)--VIRTUAL SPEAKER
- "B[lack] Nihilist Deciphering Practice and Postmortem Iconography: Re-membering Racial Misery"
- “Black Feminism and Figures of the Black Mater(nal)”
Dinner: 7:00pm-9:00pm (Closed to Conference Participants)
Day Three: Saturday, Nov. 5
Continental Breakfast: 8:00am-9:00am
Session VII: 8:30-10:30am
Shelby Sinclair (PhD Candidate at Princeton University, History and African American Studies and Thurgood Marshall Fellow at Dartmouth College, AAAS)--VIRTUAL SPEAKER
- “’Gason konn bouke, men pa fanm’”: Black Women Workers and the United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934”
- “Rethinking the Liberian Predicament in Anti-Black Terms: On Repatriation, Modernity, and the Ethno-Racial Choreographies of Civil War”
Session VIII: 10:45am-12:45pm
Marsha Myrie (Postdoc, University of Guelph, President’s Gender Equity Committee/Grounded and Engaged Theory Lab)
- “The Route Back to Conscience – The Bad and The Ugly: Naming it to Change It”
- “Challenging the Label of Exceptional Anti-Blackness: Expanding Decolonial Discourse through Afrospirituality from a Decolonial Black Feminist Perspective”
Lunch: 12:45pm-1:45pm
Invited Talk: 1:30-2:30pm
Speaker: Tempest Henning (Asst. Prof. of Philosophy, Fisk University)
- “When and Where I Carry: Black Women’s Right to Arms”
Keynote #2: 3:00pm-4:30pm—VIRTUAL SPEAKER
Speaker: Omise’eke Tinsley (Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Black Studies)
- "Where is the Black in Black Femme Freedom? A Meditation on Colorism and Black Queer Feminisms"
Closing Remarks: 4:30-4:45pm