Schedule
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Schedule subject to change.
Thursday, April 6, 2017 – University Room, Hyde Hall
3:30 – 4:30pm | Dr. Betty Ruth Lozano Lerma, Director of Research, Fundación Universitaria Bautista (Unibautista) – Colombia, South America
“Afro-Colombian Feminism: Black Women and the Defense of their Territories”
5:00 – 6:30pm | Opening Keynote: Faye Harrison, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Afro-Diasporic Women Navigating Gender, Sexuality, & Race on Dangerously Uneven Terrain”
6:30 – 7:00pm | Opening Reception
Friday, April 7, 2017 – Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Sonja Haynes Stone Center
9:00 – 9:30am | Introductions & Morning Reception
9:30 -11:00am | Panel I: Black Feminist Visions: Visual Art and the Politics of Representation
Discussant – Lyneise Williams, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Amber Jamilla Musser, Washington University in St. Louis
- Ianna Hawkins Owen, University of California – Berkeley
- Tiffany Barber, University of Virginia
11:15am – 12:45pm | Panel II: Queering Space and Physicality: Race, Sexuality, and the Body
Discussant – GerShun Avilez, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Selamawit D. Terrefe, University of California – Irvine & University of Bremen (Germany)
- LaToya Eaves, Middle Tennessee State University
- Tiffany King, Georgia State University
1:00 – 2:00pm | Lunch Break
2:15 – 4:15pm | Panel III: Voices of Resistance: Literatures of the Diaspora
Discussant – Tsitsi Jaji, Duke University
- Belinda Deneen Wallace, University of New Mexico
- Meina Yates-Richard, Syracuse University
- Petal Samuel, University of Virginia
- SA Smythe, University of California – Santa Barbara
4:15 – 4:45pm | Closing Conference Remarks & Reception
5:00pm | Evening Events – Memorial Hall
A Conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie