- Translations
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...