Tuesday, March 21
Harry J. Smith Lecture Smith Hall
Panel Sessions
9:45 Doors Open
10:00 Welcome and
Opening Remarks
Prof. Jennifer Wager, Prof. Rebecca
Williams, Conference Co-chairs
Dr. Jeffrey Lee, Vice President for Academic Affairs/Chief Academic Officer
Dr. Jeffrey Lee, Vice President for Academic Affairs/Chief Academic Officer
Dr. Stephanie Aisha Steplight Johnson, Dean of Liberal Arts
Prof. William Tooma, Deputy Executive Director, Community
College Humanities Association
Dr. Christopher Rivera, Chair, Humanities Division
10:15 Keynote – Nell
Painter, Historian, Artist
Dr. Painter is the Edwards Professor of American History,
Emerita, at Princeton University. The author of several books, Dr. Painter is a
visual artist who lives in Newark.
11:30 Session II – Deconstructing Colonial Africa
“Era Bell Thompson and Richard Wright: Radical Perspectives of Africa,” Dr. Eileen De Freece, Essex County College
“Deconstructing the Effects of Hierarchical Structures—Women against Colonialism and Traditional Patriarchy: Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood,” Dr. Nessie Hill, Essex County College
Moderator,
Kathy Lee, Independent Scholar
1:00 Session II – Radical Approaches to Women and Film
“She Got the Shot! Documenting
Women Cinematographers, a Digital Humanities Project,” Prof. Jennifer Wager, Essex County College
“Feminist
Inquiry and Female Corporeal Agency in Haifaa al-Mansour’s Wadjda,” Dr. Viral Bhatt, Essex County College
“Women in Media,”
Lisa Durden
Moderator:
Olive__, Essex County College
Co-sponsored by the Claudia Jones Lecture and Screening Series: Women
Leaders in Media and Culture.
End at 2:30 PM – Conference Resumes Wednesday, 3/22
at 10:00 AM in Siegler Lecture Hall
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Wednesday, March 22
Siegler Lecture Hall
Panel Sessions
10:00 Session I – Filming History’s Gaps
The Black Eagle of Harlem
Film
screening and discussion on the life of aviation pioneer Col. Hubert Fauntleroy
Julian.
Prof.
and Filmmaker William Tooma, Essex County College
Dr. Akil
Kokayi Khalfani, Director, Africana Institute, Essex County College
Najee
R. Smith, Artist, Student, Essex County College
Moderator: Prof. William Tooma
Co-sponsored by the Sponsored by the Micheaux/Washington Black Film
Series at Essex County College.
11:30 Session II – Reimagining Revolution
“Revolution
Through the Lens of the Humanities: Literature, Art and Music 1800s to the
Present” Prof. Donna Hill, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York
“The
World Turned Upside Down,” Prof. Elizabeth Sanderson, Trinity Christian
College, Evanston, IL
“The
Kinetics of Our Discontent: Towards a History of Social Arrest,” Dr. Mehmet Döşemeci, Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, PA
Moderator:
Prof. Jina Lee
Conference Resumes Thursday, 3/23 at 10:00 AM in
Siegler Lecture Hall
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Siegler Lecture Hall
Panel Sessions
10:00 Session I – Radicalism in Literature
“Revolutionary Figures: Transcendentalists
of Concord,” Prof. Richard Marranca, Passaic
County Community College
“The Classical Radical: Finding the mile in the minutiae, E
Pluribus Unum,” Prof. Laura Close, Northern Virginia Community College,
Annandale, VA
Moderator: Prof. Rebecca Williams
1I:30 Session II – History, Fiction, and Rewriting Trauma
“Alternatives to Empire: Social Justice and Historical Memory in Alternate History Fiction,” Prof. Liamog Drislane, Essex County College
“Black Lives Matter: 19th Century Redux,” Prof. Rebecca Williams, Essex County College
1:00 Session III – The Aesthetics of Black Radicalism
“Revolution Incarnate: Gwendolyn
Brooks and the Assembly of the Radical Black Aesthetic,” Matthew Stumpf, Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
“Rooted
in Brick: Newark’s Grassroots Politics as ‘Traditional-Radical’ Discourse—Big
City Blues…Small Town Strong,” Prof. Eunice Singleton, Essex County College
Moderator:
Dr. Eileen De Freece
2:30 Break
6:45 Session IV – 13th
Co-sponsored by the Claudia Jones Lecture and Screening Series: Women
Leaders in Media and Culture.
Conference Resumes Friday, 3/24 at 11:30 AM in
Smith Lecture Hall
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Friday, March 24
Harry J. Smith Lecture Smith Hall
11:30 Session I – Narratives of Revolution
“‘The
Show that Never Ends’: Crime Scenes and Communal Narratives in Spike Lee’s Clockers and Chi-Raq,” Brian Plungis, Graduate Student, New York University
“The
Counter-Culture and Revolution in Films of the New Hollywood (1967-1969),” Prof. Victoria Timpanaro, Essex County College
“Orisa
in the Ghetto: A Digital Humanities Project,” Dr. Kaia Niambi Shivers, New York
University
Moderator,
Prof. Jennifer Wager
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