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Named the new co-chair of the Asexuality Studies Interest Group at NWSA with Kristina Gupta. Very excited to collaborate with everyone on the next two years of ace tracks at the conference!

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Moderator: Roundtable discussion of Insurgency: The Black Matter(s) Issue

The Department of African American Studies annual St. Clair Drake Research Symposium, taking place Monday, May 4th in the Albert Johnson Conference Room (652 Barrows). This year, panels will focus on the interdisciplinary research being conducted by graduate students in the department and there will be a roundtable discussion on Insurgency, The Black Matter(s) Issue, a departmental publication in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. 

10:00 AM  VèVè Clark Institute for Engaged Scholars Chair: Professor Nikki Jones •Maya Lefao, "The Forgotten Polynesian Scholar: The Effects of Fa'aSamoa on Higher Education" •Peace And Love El Henson, "Pathways to an Elite University for African American Women from Low-Income Neighborhoods in Oakland, California" •Myles Santifer, "The Spiritual Transcendence of Swamini Turiya-sangi-tananda" •Kerby Lynch, "Unfit for Motherhood: Moving Beyond Buck v. Bell in our American Justice System" 11:00 AM  Black Affect: Sensation in Literature, Performance & Diaspora •Charisse Burden, "Toward a Radical Theory of the African Diaspora: Groundings in the Diasporic-Postcolonial Structure of Feeling" •Amani Morrison, "Black Hair Haptics: Touch, Affect, and Transgressing the Black Female Body" •Kianna M Middleton, "Reoriented Longing: the Erotic, Black Lesbianism & the African Diaspora" •John A. Mundell, "We Waih de Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar's Poetic Rise to Racialized Literary Leadership in Modern Black American Popular Culture" 1:00 PM  Roundtable – Insurgency, The Black Matter(s) Issue Moderator: Ianna Hawkins Owen Panelists: Charisse Burden, Essence Harden, Ameer Hasan Loggins, Selina Makana, Michael McGee Jr. 2:00 PM  Interventions at the Intersection of Race, Class & Identity •Robert Connell, "Maroon Futures: Contested Ecologies, Political Action and Radical Imagination in Jamaica and Suriname" •Jarvis Givens, "The Invisible Tax: Exploring the Work of Black Student-Leaders at Historically White Institutions" •Joy Hightower, "Between Class Lines: Politics of Respectability and the Ghetto Allure in the Romantic Relationships of Middle-Class Black Men" •Rasheed El Shabazz, "Black Flats, White Hills: Race and the Struggle for Community Control of Oakland's Merritt College" 3:15 PM  Contemporary, Historical & Fictional Reflections of Afro-Latinidad •Krista L. Cortes, "The Making of Afro Boricua Identity" •Aya de Leon, "Subverting Tropes and Stealth Messaging to Black and Latina Women: the making of Feminist Commercial Fiction for the Masses" •Pamela Harris, "Documentary Ethics and the making of Afro Uruguay: Forward Together" 4:15 PM  Stillness Is The Move: Diasporic Embodiment in Visual Culture & Performance •Jamal A. Batts, "Black Don't Crack: Social Death and Contemporary Postmortem Photography" •Sarah Cowan, "Heavy Bodies, Soft Things: Reciprocity in Senga Nengudi's Pantyhose Sculptures" •Olivia K. Young, "Intimating Motion: A Meditation on Senam Okudzeto's All Facts Have Been Changed to Protect the Ignorant"