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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

7:00 PM–9:00 PM

Welcome
Nancy Bradley Warren
Professor & Head
Department of English
Texas A&M University

Significance of the Occasion
Charles Henry Rowell
Editor of Callaloo & Professor of English
Texas A&M University

Keynote Address
Hortense Spillers
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor
Vanderbilt University

Moderator
Dagmawi Woubshet
Assistant Professor of English
Cornell University [End Page 1047]

Thursday, October 13, 2011

8:00 AM–10:00 AM

Word for Word: The Writer’s Eye
(Creative Writing as Translation)

Speaker Maaza Mengiste
Ethiopian American Novelist
Panelists
GerShun Avilez Assistant Professor of English & African American Studies
Yale University
Helon Habila Assistant Professor of English
George Mason University
Scott Heath Assistant Professor of English
Georgetown University
Dawn Lundy Martin Assistant Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh
Nelly Rosario Assistant Professor of English
Texas State University
Moderator Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Assistant Professor of English
Cornell University
10:30 AM–12:30 PM Lunch

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1:00 PM–3:00 PM

The Taste of the Archive
(Literary & Cultural Criticism as Translation)

Speaker Brent Hayes Edwards
Professor of English
Columbia University
Panelists
Daphne A. Brooks Professor of English & African American Studies
Princeton University
Richard Iton Professor of African American Studies
Northwestern University
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles Assistant Professor, Romance
Languages and Literatures
Boston College
Koritha Mitchell Associate Professor of English
The Ohio State University
James B. Peterson Associate Professor of English & Director of Africana Studies
Lehigh University
Moderator Shona Jackson
Assistant Professor of English
Texas A&M University

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7:00 PM–8:30 PM

A Night of Poetry

Poets Reading
Vievee Francis Assistant Professor & Visiting Artist/Poet
College for Creative Studies
Detroit, Michigan
Dawn Lundy Martin Assistant Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh
Gregory Pardlo Assistant Professor of English
George Washington University
Moderator Koritha Mitchell
Associate Professor of English
The Ohio State University

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Friday, October 14, 2011

9:00 AM–11:00 AM

In Search of Ben Patterson: An Improvised Journey
(Music as Translation)

Speaker George E. Lewis
Professor of American Music
Columbia University
Panelists
Brent Hayes Edwards Professor of English
Columbia University
Scott Heath Assistant Professor of English
Georgetown University
Francesca T. Royster Associate Professor of English
DePaul University
Salamishah Tillet Assistant Professor of English & Africana Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Ivy G. Wilson Associate Professor of English
Northwestern University
Moderator Tsitsi Jaji
Assistant Professor of English
University of Pennsylvania
11:30 AM–1:30 PM Lunch

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2:00 PM–4:00 PM

Reading the Photograph
(Visual Art as Translation)

Speaker Deborah Willis
University Professor, Chair & Professor of Photography and Imaging
New York University
Panelists
Valerie Cassel Oliver Senior Curator
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Nicole R. Fleetwood Associate Professor
Rutgers University
Lauren Kelley Artist
Prairie View A&M University
Eli Reed Associate Professor of Art History
University of Texas, Austin
Krista Thompson Associate Professor
Northwestern University
Ivy G. Wilson Associate Professor of English
Northwestern University
Moderator Huey Copeland
Assistant Professor of Art History
Northwestern University

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7:00 PM–8:30PM

Maaza Mengiste Ethiopian American Novelist
Helon Habila Assistant Professor of English
George Mason University
Moderator Francesca T. Royster
Associate Professor of English
DePaul University

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

5:30 PM–7:00 PM

The Menil Collection
1515 Sul Ross Street
Houston, Texas

Welcome
Josef Helfenstein
Director, The Menil Collection

The Occasion
Kimberly Black
Graduate Student in French Linguistics
Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III
France

Keynote Address
Robert Farris Thompson
The Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of African & African American Art
Yale University

Moderator
Shona Jackson
Assistant Professor of English
Texas A&M University

Remarks
Antonio Cepeda-Benito
Dean of Faculties & Associate Provost
Texas A&M University

Closing Remarks
Charles Henry Rowell
Editor of Callaloo & Professor of English
Texas A&M University

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CALLALOO

Texas A&M University, College Station
United States of America

presents

“The Trans-Atlantic, the Diaspora, and Africa”

The 2013 Callaloo Conference
November 27–30, 2013

hosted by

The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
United Kingdom

This conference advances and challenges the newest theoretical scholarship emerging from the interdisciplinary fields of U.S.A.-derived...

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