30th Anniversary Celebration
Wednesday, October 24 through
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Hosted by
The Center for Africana Studies
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
and
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum
The Enoch Pratt Free Library
A celebration of Callaloo´s thirty years of continuous publication featuring poetry and fiction readings, lectures, conversations, and panel discussions with more than one hundred of the USA´s best creative writers, intellectuals, academics, and artists, including:
Carole Boyce Davies, Lucille Clifton, Thadious Davis, Brent Edwards, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Thomas Glave, Farah Griffin, Trudier Harris, Yusef Komunyakaa, Wahneema Lubiano, John McCluskey, Mark Anthony Neal, Carl Phillips, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Trethewey, and many others.
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for Callaloo's 30th Anniversary Celebration!
To register, visit http://www.regonline.com/callaloo_celebration
To get a cheaper conference rate, call and make your hotel reservations with the Baltimore Mariott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards.
The last day to make reservations and still receive the Callaloo conference rate is Monday, October 1, 2007.
Please e-mail <callaloo@tamu.edu> to be added to the conference mailing list.
Volunteer Opportunities
Free admission to closing ceremonies / dinner for grad students interested in volunteering during the celebration / conference. Please e-mail dargan.callaloo@gmail.com for volunteer opportunities.
Please see our ads in the September / October issues of PMLA and AWP Writer's Chronicle.
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THE 30th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
OF
CALLALOO
October 24-27, 2007
Hosted by the Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland
Wednesday, October 24
Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Theatre Auditorium
830 E. Pratt Street
8:00 PM Welcome: Ben Vinson III, Director, Center for Africana Studies, Johns
Hopkins University
The Occasion: Trudier Harris (University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill)
Comments & Acknowledgements: Charles Henry Rowell, Editor of
Callaloo
8:30 PM Keynote Conversation: Black Studies, the Academy, & Contemporary
Black Communities
Panel: Eddie Glaude (Princeton University), Wahneema H. Lubiano (Duke University), Suzette Spencer (University of Wisconsin, Madison), William Strickland (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), & James Turner (Cornell University)
Moderator: Farah Griffin(Columbia University)
Thursday, October 25
Johns Hopkins University, Space Telescope Science Institute, Room 229
3700 San Martin Drive
9:00-10:30 AM Henry Louis Gates’ The Signifying Monkey After (Almost) Twenty
Years
Greetings: Adam Falk, Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Panel: Abdul JanMohammed (University of California, Berkeley), Joyce Ann Joyce (Temple University), & Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University)
Moderator: Michael Collins (Texas A&M University, College Station)
11:00-12:30 PM African American Literary Studies and the Feminist Critique after
The Color Purple
Panel: Susan Fraiman (University of Virginia), Carmen Gillespie (Bucknell University), Kim Hall (Barnard College), Lovalerie King (Pennsylvania State University), KeithMitchell (University of Massachusetts at Lowell), & Deborah Grey White (Rutgers University)
Moderator: Cheryl Wall (Rutgers University)
12:30-1:30 PM Lunch
2:00-3:00 PM Writing & Publishing Fiction in the USA
Panel: Randall Kenan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Helen Elaine Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Martha Southgate (Brooklyn College), & David Wright (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Moderator: John McCluskey (Indiana University, Bloomington)
3:30-4:30 PM Fiction Readings: Emerging Writers
Readers: Mat Johnson (University of Houston), Tayari Jones (Rutgers
University, Newark), & Emily Raboteau (City College of New York)
MC: Neil Roberts (Johns Hopkins University)
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8:00 PM Fiction & Poetry Readings
Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Theatre Auditorium
830 E. Pratt Street
Writers Reading: Paule Marshall (New York University) & Lucille Clifton (St. Mary’s College, Maryland)
MC: Trudier Harris (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
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Friday, October 26
Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Theatre Auditorium
830 E. Pratt Street
9:00-10:30 AM Querying the Black Diaspora
Panel: Carole Boyce Davies (Cornell University), Brent Edwards (Columbia University), Zita Nunes (University of Maryland, College Park), SuzetteSpencer (University of Wisconsin), & Jennifer Wilks (University of Texas, Austin)
Moderator: Shona Jackson (Texas A&M University, College Station)
11:00 AM-12:30 PM Caribbean Writers in the United States: Other
Black Diasporas
Presentation: Fred D’Aguiar (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg)
Panel: Carrol F. Coates (State University of New York, Binghamton), Daryl Dance (University of Richmond, Virginia), Thomas Glave (State University of New York, Binghamton), & Veronica Gregg (Hunter College)
Moderator: Nelly Rosario (Texas State University, San Marcos)
12:30-1:30 PM Lunch
2:00-3:00 PM Writing and Publishing Poetry in the USA
Presentation: Thomas Sayers Ellis (Sarah Lawrence College)
Panel: Kendra Hamilton (University of Virginia), Erica Hunt (Illinois State University), Carl Phillips (Washington University, St. Louis), &Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon (Cornell University)
Moderator: Dante Micheaux (New York University)
3:30-5:00 PM Poetry & the Legacy of the Black Arts Movement in the USA
Presentation: Sonia Sanchez (Temple University)
Panel: Cheryl Clarke (Rutgers University), Gene Andrew Jarrett (Boston University), Meta D. Jones (University of Texas, Austin), James Edward Smethurst (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) & David Lionel Smith (Williams College)
Moderator: Margo Natalie Crawford (Indiana University, Bloomington)
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6:30 PM Poetry Readings
Enoch Pratt Central Library, Wheeler Auditorium
400 Cathedral Street
Greetings: Carla D. Hayden, Director, Enoch Pratt Central Library
Poets Reading: Carl Phillips (Washington University, St. Louis), Natasha Trethewey (Emory University), & Yusef Komunyaka (New York University)
MC: Brent Edwards (Rutgers University)
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Saturday, October 27
Johns Hopkins University, Maryland Hall, Rooms 109 & 110
3400 North Charles Street
9:30-10:30 AM Academic Editing and Publishing: The Johns Hopkins University
Press
The Book Division
The Journals Division
11:00 AM-12:30 PM Poets Reading
Poets Readings: Major Jackson (University of Vermont), A. Van Jordan (University of Texas, Austin), Terrance Hayes (Carnegie Mellon University), Dawn Lundy Martin (University of Pittsburgh), & Tracy K. Smith (Princeton University)
MC: Kyle G. Dargan (American University)
1:00-2:00 PM Lunch
2:30-4:00 PM Final Keynote Conversation / African American Literary and
Cultural Studies: The Present and the Future
Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards
University 1, 2, 3, 4
Panel: Scott Heath (Georgetown University), Meta Jones (University of Texas, Austin), Keith Leonard (American University), Fred Moten (Duke University), Marlon Ross (University of Virginia), & Michelle Wright (University of Minnesota)
Moderator: Thadious Davis (University of Pennsylvania)
7:00-7:45 PM Fiction Writer Reading
Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards
University 1, 2, 3, 4
Writer Reading: John Edgar Wideman (Brown University)
Introduction: Daniel Jerome Wideman
MC: Floyd Hayes, Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins
University
8:30-10:30 PM Cocktails (cash bar), Dinner, and Closing Remarks
Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards
Ballroom D, E, F, G
Closing Remarks:
Ben Vinson, Director of Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University Kyle Dargan, Managing Editor of Callaloo
Charles Henry Rowell, Editor of Callaloo
Loving Callaloo/Stomping the Blues: Celebration with drinks, music, dance, etc.