We are delighted to invite you to the Symposium Critical Feminist Thought and the African Diaspora. With this event, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at UMass Amherst commemorates its 40th anniversary. It will bring together a group of scholars working at the intersections of black and feminist diasporic studies. Our keynote address "The Place of Black Feminism" will be delivered by Dr. Dorothy Roberts, from the University of Pennsylvania. Click here to access the program (or see below).
When? February 28 2014 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Where? Amherst Room (10th Floor), Campus Center
This event is free and open to the public. To participate, please register by February 20 here.
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Program
9:30 – 10:00 Meet/greet
& continental breakfast
Joe Bartolomeo, Associate Dean – College of
Humanities & Fine Arts, UMass
Amherst
Laura Briggs, Chair – Women, Gender, Sexuality
Studies, UMass Amherst
10:15-11:15 Keynote
address
“The Place of Black
Feminism”
Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, Raymond Pace & Sadie
Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and Professor of Africana
Studies, University of Pennsylvania
11:15:12:30 Panel
1
In the Beginning: Bringing Gender into Afro-American Studies / Bringing Race into Women's Studies
Presenters: John
Bracey, Interim Chair – Afro-American Studies, UMass
Amherst
Arlene Avakian, Professor Emeritus – Women, Gender, Sexuality
Studies, UMass Amherst
Moderator: Paula
Giddings, Professor – Afro-American Studies, Smith
College
12:30-1:30 Buffet
lunch
1:45-3:15 Panel
2
New
Directions in Black Cultural Studies
Presenters: Tanisha
Ford, Assistant Professor – Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass Amherst
Salamishah Tillet, Associate Professor – English, University of
Pennsylvania
Emily Lordi, Assistant Professor – English,
UMass Amherst
Moderator: Daphne
Lamothe, Associate Professor – Afro-American Studies, Smith College
3:15-3:30
Break
3:30-5:00
Panel 3
The Place of Black Feminism:
New Methodologies and Praxis
Presenters: Brittney
Cooper, Assistant Professor – Women's and Gender Studies / Africana Studies, Rutgers
University
Rhon Manigault-Bryant, Assistant Professor – Africana Studies, Williams
College
Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Assistant Professor – Anthropology, UMass
Amherst
Moderator: Mecca
Sullivan, Assistant Professor – Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass Amherst
5:00-5:30 Closing
remarks
Banu Subramanian, Associate Dean – College of Humanities and
Fine Arts /
Associate Professor – Women,
Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass Amherst
