RACE, MEMORY AND RECLAMATION
Friday 7th - Sunday 9th September 2007, Arts Building, UEA
Provisional Programme - Click links to view proposals.
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Friday 7 September |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
Registration - Arts Building, Floor 2 |
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15:00 – 16:00 |
Tea/Coffee |
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16:00 – 16:15 |
Introduction - Professor Richard Crockatt |
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16:15 – 17:45 |
Panel 1 RACE AND RESISTANCE Chair: Dr Malcolm McLaughlin The Cemetery as Focus of Community ID and Resistance (Paper to be presented by Dr Rebecca Fraser on behalf of . John P. McCarthy) Richard Ellis David Walker’s appeal. Sylvea Hollis The Story of African Americans in Cooperstown, New York 1860-1900. |
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18:00 – 19:15 |
Keynote 1 |
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19:30 – 22:00 |
Hot Buffet Dinner |
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Saturday 8 September |
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07:30 – 09:00 |
Breakfast in Zest (for residential delegates) |
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09:00 – 10:45 |
Panel 2 MEMORY, RECLAMATION AND MEMORIALISATION Chair: Dr Rebecca Tillett Maria Sabina Alexandru Love as Reclamation in Morrison’s African American rhetoric. Corinne Duboin Text, Memory and Memorialization in Phyllis Perry’s Stigmata. Anna Hartnell Beyond slavery, beyond America: Malcolm X and the imagination of freedom. |
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10:30 – 11:15 |
Tea/Coffee |
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11:15 – 12:30 |
Keynote 2 Bright Molande Re/membering Africa: the Cultural Logic of Presence in Fanon and Texts of Beauty |
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12:45 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 – 15:15 |
Panel 3 RACE AND RECLAMATION IN THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE Chair: Dr Rebecca Fraser Regina Faden Stripping off the Whitewash at the Mark Twain Boyhood home and museum. Katherine Walker United Regardless: Narrative, Race and Memory. |
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15:15 – 16:00 |
Tea/Coffee |
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16:00 – 17:15 |
Panel 4 RACE AND REPRESENTATION Chair: Dr Thomas Ruys Smith Eric Jarvis Changing Psychiatric Perception of African Americans, 1842 – 2006. Nathalie Nya Race Consciousness, the Other's Face and the Visible in daily life. |
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20:00 – 20:30 |
Reception |
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20:30 - 23:00 |
Gala Dinner
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Sunday 9 September |
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07:30 – 09:00 |
Breakfast in Zest (for residential delegates) |
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09:30 – 10:45 |
Keynote 3 |
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Professor Stanley Engerman - Reparations |
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10:45 - 11:30 |
Tea/Coffee |
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11:30 – 12:30 |
Panel 5 Chair: Dr Rebecca Fraser Looking Forward: Conclusion to the Conference, reflecting on the collection of papers, keynotes and discussions over the weekend. |
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12:30 – 15:00 |
Lunch |
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END OF CONFERENCE |
