BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT CONFERENCE SATURDAY PROGRAM
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Arrivals & Registration 8:30AM – 11:30AM
Opening Ceremony 9:00AM – 10:00AM
Panel Session 10:10AM – 11:30AM
Lunch 11:45AM – 12:45PM
Keynote Address 1:00PM – 1:45PM
Panel Sessions 1:00PM – 5:45PM
Dinner 6:00PM – 7:00PM
Theatre Night 7:30PM – 9:30PM
Panel Session 10:10AM – 11:30AM
Black Power and Black Arts Roundtable Recreation Center
Moderator: Dr. Nigel Hatton, University of California, Merced
Panelists:
Askia Touré Poet & Activist, Co-Founder of the Black Arts Movement
Marvin X Playwright & Activist, Co-Founder of west coast branch of Black Arts Movement
Eugene Redmond Founding Editor of Drumvoices Revue, Emeritus Professor of English & former Chairman of the Creative Writing Committee at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Umar Bin Hassan Member of the civil rights era Last Poets
Avotcja Black Arts Movement Poet & Percussionist
Judy Juanita Novelist and playwright, former editor-in-chief of Black Panther Party Newspaper
Dr. James Smethurst Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, author of The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (The University of North Carolina Press (March 2005)
Dr. Mike Sell Professor of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, author of The Avant-Garde: Race Religion War and editor of Ed Bullins: Twelve Plays and Selected Writings.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1:00PM – 1:45PM
Marvin X
Black Arts, Black Power, Black Studies COB 105
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