Schedule: At A Glance

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2020

ROUNDTABLE (5:30 - 7PM EST): "Anti-Racist Futures in Theater and Performance Studies Professionalization"

• Masi Asare, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, Northwestern University

• Aileen Robinson, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University

• Yumi Pak, Associate Professor of English, California State University, San Bernardino

• Mario LaMothe, Assistant Professor, Departments of Black Studies and Anthropology, Faculty Affiliate, Gender and Women's Studies / Museum & Exhibition Studies, Diaspora Studies Cluster, The University of Illinois at Chicago

• Dasha Chapman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance, Davidson College

THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020

PANEL (5 - 6:30PM EST): "Re-enacting Black Urban Futures"

• Gianina K. Lockley, University of Maryland, College Park, “Explicating the Jit: From the Streets to the Strip Club - Representations of Black Female Sexual Identity"

• Rebecca Struch, University of California, Berkeley, “Reenacting the Future in Dread Scott’s Slave Rebellion Reenactment”

• Chandra Christmas-Rouse, Enterprise Community Partners: “Race, Space, and the Poetics of Planning: Toward a Black Feminist Space-Making”

PERFORMANCE/READING (7 - 8 PM EST): The Referendum: An Oral History Performance

• Written and Directed by Nikki Owusu Yeboah, San Jose State University

FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020

KEYNOTE PERFORMANCE & ROUNDTABLE (5 - 7:30PM EST): "Performing Detroit's Black Futures"

• Salakastar (Keynote performer)

• Franchesca Lamarre (Keynote performer)

• Biba Bell (Roundtable discussant)

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8

PANEL (12:30 - 2:15PM EST): "Sculpting, Sensing, Ascending: on Black Aesthetic Futures"

• Luke Williams, Stanford University, “Black Weight: Utopian Asymptotes and Black Nonperformance”

• Fae Wolfe, “Versing our Bodies--Women of Colour and Somatic Movement: An Emerging Narrative”

• LyaNisha Gonzalez, Texas Tech University, “‘I’m Not Your Superwoman: Imagining Black Female Futures in Theatre”

• Truly A. Bennett, The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, “Black Anime Fans: A Discussion on Afrofuturism and Ascension”

PERFORMANCE/DIALOGUE (2:30 - 3:30PM EST): Aaliyah in Underland

• Wind Dell Woods, University of Puget Sound

SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020

CLASS OFFERING (11AM - 12:30PM EST): “Afrocentricity X Dramaturgy: Putting Research into the Body”

• Lindsay A. Jenkins, Maroon Arts and Culture

CLOSING (1 - 2PM EST): Participant and Attendee Roundtable