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Newly created panels
- NP-1a – “The Queer of Color Critique” (Part I)
- NP-1b – “The Queer of Color Critique” (Part II)
- NP-2a – Changes, Exchanges and Cultural Agency (Part I)
- NP-2b – Changes, Exchanges and Cultural Agency (Part II)
- NP-3 – Historical and Literary Narratives of Citizenship
- NP-4a – “Get Real!”: Black Actors Acting (Post)Black (Part I)
- NP-4b – “Get Real!”: Black Actors Acting (Post)Black (Part II)
- NP-5a – Talking Portraits and the Rewriting of History (Part I)
- NP-5b – Talking Portraits and the Rewriting of History (Part II)
- NP-6a – Black Feminism Working Through: Genealogies, Agendas, Challenges (Part I)
- NP-6b – Black Feminism Working Through: Genealogies, Agendas, Challenges (Part II)
- NP-7 – Body Consciousness and Disalienation
- NP-8 – The Stretching Centre: Creative Mappings of the “Circumcaribbean”
- NP-9 – Venus Is a Trope: The Visual Codes of Blackness
- NP-10 – Unbounding Music and the Sound of Race
- NP-11a – Healing and Writing Back – A Womanist Desire?
- NP-11b – Healing and Writing Back – A Womanist Desire?
- NP-12a – Diasporic Mythographies of Home
- NP-13 – Narratives of Cross-Identification and Interracial Desire
- NP-12b – Diasporic Mythographies of Home
- NP-14 – Staging Desire: Breaking Through the Forms
- NP-15 – In Context: De/Constructing Black Masculinities
- NP-16 – Pragmatic Utopias: Black Studies for the 21st Century Humanities
- NP-17 – Iconic Obama
- NP-18 – Going East: The Reception of African American Writers
- NP-19 – From Class to Clash – And Beyond
- NP-20 – Communal Projects for Transformative Selves
- NP-21a – The Modes of (Not) Being Black: (Meta)Fiction and Action
- NP-21b – The Modes of (Not) Being Black: (Meta)Fiction and Action
- NP-22 – Warring Epistemologies
- NP-23 – Social Control and the Crime of Race
- NP-24 – Sexual Commodification: the Body from Baker to Beyonce
- NP-25 – Black and French: Reading of an Oxymoron
Submitted panels
- P-124 – Haïti chérie: Image, Word, Song
- P-133a – Re-generating the Black Text: African American Literature from the Archive to the Classroom
- P-133b – Re-generating the Black Text: African American Literature from the Archive to the Classroom
- P-176a – Theorizing the System: from the Black Enlightenment to the Post-Race
- P-176b – Theorizing the System: from the Black Enlightenment to the Post-Race
- P-179 – Worlds of Desire: Octavia Butler’s Fantastic Fiction(s)
- P-200a – The Harlem Renaissance in an Americas Perspective
- P-200b – The Harlem Renaissance in an Americas Perspective
- P-209 – Dust Tracks on the Transatlantic Road: Self Portraits of African American Women Abroad
- P-210a – From Ballroom to Brokeback: Power and Desire in Black Sexual Economies and Black Culture
- P-210b – From Ballroom to Brokeback: Power and Desire in Black Sexual Economies and Black Culture
- P-212 – Reconceptualizing Black Musical States of Desire
- P-213 – Rethinking Black States of Desire: Performativity, Reflexivity, and Digitality
- P-229 – The Ethics of Black Desire
- P-235 – Revolutionary Desire: Erotic Insurgency in Black Literary & Visual Culture
- P-292 – Black Feminist Theory Beyond the Norms of Black Female Subjectivity
- P-303 – Re/generational Politics: Changing Cultural Paradigms through Recovery and Reproduction
- P-319 – Imagining the Colonial Metropole
- P-320 – Afro-Diasporic Feminists and the Literary Legacy of Slavery
- P-321 – New Play Preview – New Plays on the African Diaspora
- P-327a – Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
- P-327b – Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
- P-334 – Amazing Grace: The Work of James McBride
- P-344 – From Vaudeville to “Passing Strange”: Black Theatre and Performance Culture
- P-352 – Katherine Dunham’s Transnational Stagings of Black Women’s Dancing Bodies in 1940s Hollywood
- P-377 – African and Native American Unity in the Transformation of African American Lives in the United States: Evidence from a Smithsonian Exhibit
- P-400 – When U.S. Ideas Race: Transatlantic Circulation and Transformation of the Black Experience in Europe
- P-409 – Desire and the Black Body: Rhetorics and Performance of Black Sexual Politics
- P-414 – Black Women in Search of Self: Protection, Inheritance, and Recognition
- P-426 – Desire as Counter-discourse in African American Biography
- P-429 – Desiring Black Gospel: The Circulation, Translation, and Reception of African American Gospel Traditions
- P-440 – Black Role Models for a New Community
- P-462 – Transforming Identity(ies): White Exclusion and Modes of Desire for Blackness
- P-491 – Traveling Desire: Transformations of Spatial, Literary and Cinematic Geographies in the U.S. South
- P-509a – Articulations of Black Radicalism in Transnational Encounters
- P-509b – Articulations of Black Radicalism in Transnational Encounters
NP-1a – “The Queer of Color Critique” (Part I)
Chair: David Green, University of Michigan, USA
NP-1b – “The Queer of Color Critique” (Part II)
Chair: David Green, University of Michigan, USA
| Identifier | Titel | Autoren | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NP-1b-01 | Sculpting Black Queer Bodies/Desires: The Case of Richmond Barthé | Smalls, J. |
NP-2a – Changes, Exchanges and Cultural Agency (Part I)
Chair: Martine Chard-Hutchinson, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, France
NP-2b – Changes, Exchanges and Cultural Agency (Part II)
Chair: Nathalie Caron, Université Paris Est-Créteil, France
NP-3 – Historical and Literary Narratives of Citizenship
Chair: Jeffrey Ogbar, University of Connecticut, USA
NP-4a – “Get Real!”: Black Actors Acting (Post)Black (Part I)
Chair: Anne Crémieux, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre, France
NP-4b – “Get Real!”: Black Actors Acting (Post)Black (Part II)
Chair: Anne Crémieux, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre, France
NP-5a – Talking Portraits and the Rewriting of History (Part I)
Chair: François Brunet, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, France
NP-5b – Talking Portraits and the Rewriting of History (Part II)
Chair: Géraldine Chouard, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
NP-6a – Black Feminism Working Through: Genealogies, Agendas, Challenges (Part I)
Chair: Monica Michlin, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, France
NP-6b – Black Feminism Working Through: Genealogies, Agendas, Challenges (Part II)
Chair: Monica Michlin, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, France
NP-7 – Body Consciousness and Disalienation
Chair: Marie-Claude Perrin-Chenour, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre, France
NP-8 – The Stretching Centre: Creative Mappings of the “Circumcaribbean”
Chair: Angelita Reyes, Arizona State University, United States
NP-9 – Venus Is a Trope: The Visual Codes of Blackness
Chair: Anne-Marie Paquet Deyris, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre, France
NP-10 – Unbounding Music and the Sound of Race
Chair: Frédéric Sylvanise, Université Paris 13-Nord, France
NP-11a – Healing and Writing Back – A Womanist Desire?
Chair: Arlette Frund, Université François- Rabelais, Tours, France
NP-11b – Healing and Writing Back – A Womanist Desire?
Chair: Amrita Myers, Indiana University, USA
NP-12a – Diasporic Mythographies of Home
Chair: Isabel Soto, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia / CAAR Executive Board
NP-13 – Narratives of Cross-Identification and Interracial Desire
Chair: Cynthia S. Hamilton, Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom / CAAR Executive Board
NP-12b – Diasporic Mythographies of Home
Chair: Ivy Wilson, Northwesten University, USA
NP-14 – Staging Desire: Breaking Through the Forms
Chair: Xavier Lemoine, Université de Nantes, France
NP-15 – In Context: De/Constructing Black Masculinities
Chair: Mar Gallego, University of Huelva, Spain / CAAR Executive Board
NP-16 – Pragmatic Utopias: Black Studies for the 21st Century Humanities
Chair: Corey D. B. Walker, Brown University, United States
NP-17 – Iconic Obama
Chair: Emil Sirbulescu, University of Craiova, Romania
NP-18 – Going East: The Reception of African American Writers
Chair: David Canton, Connecticut College, USA
| Identifier | Titel | Autoren | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NP-18-01 | What Kind of Russian Does Florens Speak? Toni Morrison’s A Mercy as a Challenge for Translator | Vysotska, N. | |
| NP-18-02 | James Baldwin’s Reception in the GDR | Lennox, S. |
NP-19 – From Class to Clash – And Beyond
Chair: Sylvie Laurent, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France
NP-20 – Communal Projects for Transformative Selves
Chair: Fanon Che Wilkins, Doshisha University, Japan
NP-21a – The Modes of (Not) Being Black: (Meta)Fiction and Action
Chair: Kathie Birat, Université Paul Verlaine-Metz, France
NP-21b – The Modes of (Not) Being Black: (Meta)Fiction and Action
Chair: Claude Julien, Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France
NP-22 – Warring Epistemologies
Chair: Guillaume Marche, Université Paris Est-Créteil, France
NP-23 – Social Control and the Crime of Race
Chair: Hélène Christol, Université de Provence, France
NP-24 – Sexual Commodification: the Body from Baker to Beyonce
Chair: Violet Johnson, Agnes Scott College, USA / CAAR Executive Board
NP-25 – Black and French: Reading of an Oxymoron
Chair: Marc Mve Bekale, Université de Reims, France
P-124 – Haïti chérie: Image, Word, Song
Chair: Marjorie Salvodon, Suffolk University, USA
| Identifier | Titel | Autoren | |
|---|---|---|---|
| P-124-01 | Haïti chérie: Image, Word, Song | François, I., Laforest, M.-H., Salvodon, M. | |
| P-124-02 | Writing/Righting History, Singing history | Laforest, M.-H. |
P-133a – Re-generating the Black Text: African American Literature from the Archive to the Classroom
Chair: John Ernest, West Virginia University, USA
P-133b – Re-generating the Black Text: African American Literature from the Archive to the Classroom
Chair: John Ernest, West Virginia University, USA
P-176a – Theorizing the System: from the Black Enlightenment to the Post-Race
Chair: Richard J. Ellis, University of Birmingham, UK
P-176b – Theorizing the System: from the Black Enlightenment to the Post-Race
Chair: Richard J. Ellis, University of Birmingham, UK
P-179 – Worlds of Desire: Octavia Butler’s Fantastic Fiction(s)
Chair: Florian Bast, Universität Leipzig, Germany / Marie Löffler, Stanford University, USA
P-200a – The Harlem Renaissance in an Americas Perspective
Chair: Astrid Haas, Bielefeld University, Germany / Larry A. Greene, Seton Hall University, USA
P-200b – The Harlem Renaissance in an Americas Perspective
Chair: Astrid Haas, Bielefeld University, Germany / Larry A. Greene, Seton Hall University, USA
P-209 – Dust Tracks on the Transatlantic Road: Self Portraits of African American Women Abroad
Chair: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
P-210a – From Ballroom to Brokeback: Power and Desire in Black Sexual Economies and Black Culture
Chair: Adrienne Davis, Washington University School of Law, USA
P-210b – From Ballroom to Brokeback: Power and Desire in Black Sexual Economies and Black Culture
Chair: Marlon Bailey, Indiana University, USA
P-212 – Reconceptualizing Black Musical States of Desire
Chair: Rashida K. Braggs, Stanford University, USA
P-213 – Rethinking Black States of Desire: Performativity, Reflexivity, and Digitality
Chair: Joseph D. Lewandowski, University of Central Missouri, USA
P-229 – The Ethics of Black Desire
Chair: Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, USA
P-235 – Revolutionary Desire: Erotic Insurgency in Black Literary & Visual Culture
Chair: Marlo David, Purdue University, USA
P-292 – Black Feminist Theory Beyond the Norms of Black Female Subjectivity
Chair: Jafari Allen, Yale University, USA
P-303 – Re/generational Politics: Changing Cultural Paradigms through Recovery and Reproduction
Chair: Kim Blockett, Pane State University, USA
P-319 – Imagining the Colonial Metropole
Chair: Joshua Guild, Princeton University, USA
P-320 – Afro-Diasporic Feminists and the Literary Legacy of Slavery
Chair: Barbara McCaskill, The University of Georgia, USA
P-321 – New Play Preview – New Plays on the African Diaspora
Chair: Harvey Young, Northwestern University, USA
P-327a – Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
Chair: Farah Griffin, Columbia University, USA
P-327b – Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
Chair: Farah Griffin, Columbia University, USA
P-334 – Amazing Grace: The Work of James McBride
Chair: Justine Tally, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
P-344 – From Vaudeville to “Passing Strange”: Black Theatre and Performance Culture
Chair: Harvey Young, Northwestern University, USA
P-352 – Katherine Dunham’s Transnational Stagings of Black Women’s Dancing Bodies in 1940s Hollywood
Chair: Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Nottingham, UK
P-377 – African and Native American Unity in the Transformation of African American Lives in the United States: Evidence from a Smithsonian Exhibit
Chair: Robert Keith Collins, San Francisco State University, USA
P-400 – When U.S. Ideas Race: Transatlantic Circulation and Transformation of the Black Experience in Europe
Chair: Heike Raphael-Hernandez, U. of Maryland Europe, Germany
P-409 – Desire and the Black Body: Rhetorics and Performance of Black Sexual Politics
Chair: Toniesha L. Taylor, Prairie View A & M University, USA
P-414 – Black Women in Search of Self: Protection, Inheritance, and Recognition
Chair: Kinitra Brooks, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
P-426 – Desire as Counter-discourse in African American Biography
Chair: Reynaldo Ortiz, State University of New York-Binghamton, USA
P-429 – Desiring Black Gospel: The Circulation, Translation, and Reception of African American Gospel Traditions
Chair: Phyllisa Deroze, Fayettevile State University, USA
P-440 – Black Role Models for a New Community
Chair: Katrin Horn, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany / Carmen Dexl, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
P-462 – Transforming Identity(ies): White Exclusion and Modes of Desire for Blackness
Chair: Kwakiutl Dreher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
P-491 – Traveling Desire: Transformations of Spatial, Literary and Cinematic Geographies in the U.S. South
Chair: Jamicia Lackey, Yale University, USA
P-509a – Articulations of Black Radicalism in Transnational Encounters
Chair: Guirdex Massé, Emory University, USA
P-509b – Articulations of Black Radicalism in Transnational Encounters
Chair: Guirdex Massé, Emory University, USA