Symposium Schedule:
Friday, March 24, 2006
Opening Session and Keynote Address (1:00 2:00 p.m., Hall of Languages, Room 500)
Nourbese Philip Title: Song Lines of Memory in a Globalized World. Click Here for more information about Nourbese Philip.
Roundtable on Orature and Rhetoric Interrogating Transnational Citizenship (2:15 3:30 p.m., Hall of Languages, Room 500)
Micere Githae Mugo, Kendall R. Phillips, Joshua Atkinson, Vanessa Johnson
Roundtable on Literature and Writing Exploding Silences in Notions of Transnational Citizenship (3:45 5:00 p.m., Hall of Languages, Room 500)
Cecil Abrahams, Silvio A. Torres-Saillant, Vincent Odamtten, Fumilayo (Fumi) Showers, Patricia Ann Burak
Dinner Break. Click Here for good places to have dinner close by.
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Brazilian Ensemble at practice session. |
Evening of Performances (7:00 9:00 p.m.)
Community Folk Art Center
The Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
(Divisions of the Department of African American Studies)
805 East Genesee St.
Invited Artists: Bill Cole & Warren
Smith, Elisa Macedo Dekaney, Arthur Flowers, S.U. Brazilian Ensemble,
Omanii Abdullah, Jackie Grace, Jackie Warren-Moore, Etse Nyadedsor,
Eileen Strempel, Kenneth R. Meyer, the African Dance Company, and
others
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Breakfast 9:00 10:00 a.m.
Roundtable on Insurgent Music, Theater and Dance Defining Transnational Citizenship (10:00 11:15 a.m., Hall of Languages, Room 500)
William Cole, Eileen Strempel, Carol Babiracki, Elisa Macedo
Dekaney
Roundtable on Independent Film Alternatives to the Human Cost of Totalized Globalization (11:30 12:45 p.m., Hall of Languages, Room 500)
Kheli R. Willetts, Richard Dubin, Peyibomi Soyinka-Airewele
Lunch and Closing Remarks (1:00 3:00 p.m., Hall of Languages, Room 500)