Speakers' List and Panel Key - T

							            School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies


 Afromodernisms 1: Re-encounters with the French and
               Anglo-Atlantic Worlds, 1907–61


        List of Panels, Chairs and Respondents

Tyler Stovall: “Black Modernism and the Making of the Twentieth Century:
                              Paris 1919”


         Demetrius Eudell: “What to the Negro is Modernism?”


 David Scott: “The Theory of Haiti: The Black Jacobins and the Ethos of
                           Universal History”


A.    Faulkner, Sutpen and Haiti. University of Nottingham. Chair and
     resp. Dan Littlefield, University of South Carolina.
     LITTLEDC@mailbox.sc.edu

     *”From Haiti to Mississippi: Faulkner and the Making of the
     Southern Master-Class,” Richard H. King
     *”Zora Neale Hurston and Haiti,” David Murray
     *”Dance Anthropology and the Impact of 1930s Haiti on Katherine
     Dunham‟s Scientific and Artistic Consciousness,” Hannah Durkin

B.    Afromodernist Feminisms: ‘Puisque tout est relatif’ They
     have understood the relativism of all things. Chair and
     Respondent Kate Marsh : clmarsh@liv.ac.uk

     *“Reclaiming the Biguine: Music-making and the proto-Negritude
     movement in interwar Paris.” Rachel Gillett, Northeastern University
     *”Beyond Baker and Fanon: Suzanne Lacascade‟s Modern Paris,”
     Jennifer M. Wilks, University of Texas at Austin
     * “The French Imaginaries of Jessie Fauset and Paulette Nardal,”
     Claire Garcia, Colorado College
     *”Change of Agents: Black Women Writing the Personal and Political
     in Mid-20th Century America,” Maureen Kentoff, George Washington
     University

C.   Ethnography of the Black Atlantic. Chair: Steve Rubenstein:
     steven.rubenstein@liv.ac.uk; respondent; Fionnghuala Sweeney:
     fsweeney@liv.ac.uk

     *“The Modernity of Negritude and the (Re)Figuring of the Black
     Atlantic,” H. Adlai Murdoch, University of Illinois.
     *“Modernism, Anthropology, Africanism and the Self,” Claudine
     Raynaud, Montpellier 3,
     *“Public Possessions: Ethnographic Fictions of Black Modernity,”
     Samantha Pinto, Georgetown University

D.   Absent Conversations. Goldsmith‟s University of London.
     Chair and respondent: Jenny Terry: j.a.terry@durham.ac.uk

     *”From Restoration to Creolisation: Imoinda as 21st Century
     Afromodernist Woman.” Natasha Bonnelame.
     *”„What we remember the whip can‟t undo‟: Rewriting „H(er)story‟
     in Joan Anim-Addo‟s Imoinda.” Marl‟ene Edwin.
     *”Talking through the „door of no return‟: Reconciling African and
     Caribbean perspectives on the slave trade.” Tendai Marima.

E.   Fighting Fronts: Chair. Stephen Kenny: s.c.kenny@liv.ac.uk
     Respondent: Robbie Aitken: rjma@liv.ac.uk

     *” Fighting Nazism, Jim Crow and Colonialism Too,” Alan Rice,
     UCLAN
     * “Cold War Crossroads: Outside Agitators,” and West Indian Roots
     of Black Power,” William Christopher Johnson, Yale University
     * “Langston Hughes: Transatlantic Translations,” Baltasar Fra-
     Molinero, Bates College.

F.   Aesthetics of modernism. Chair and Respondent: Alan Rice:
     arice@uclan.ac.uk

     * „Thinking in Hieroglyphics‟: Representations of Egypt in the
     Harlem Rennaisance,” Rachel Farebrother: University of Swansea.
     * “Ted Joans and Hip Surrealism,” Joanna Pawlik, University of
     Manchester.
        * “Universality „Re-visioned‟: Caribbean Aesthetics Surrealist
        Practice and Deleuze‟s Post-Continental Philosophy,” Lorna Burns,
        University of Glasgow.

G.      Bodies and minds. Chair and Respondent: Anahid Kassabian:
        a.kassabian@liv.ac.uk

        * “Devil‟s Daughters: Josephine Baker in Zou Zou,” Terri Francis,
        Yale University.
        * “Aunt Sally and Uncle Sigmund: African Americans, Dream
        Interpretation, and the Sense of the Modern,” Arlene R. Keizer, UC
        Irvine.
        * “Feral Benga‟s Body,” James Smalls, University of Maryland.

H.      Musical movements. Chair: Amanda Sives: asives@liv.ac.uk

        * “The jazz and travel writings of Elisabeth Sauvy (aka Titaÿna).”
        Jackie Dutton with Prof Colin Nettelbeck, University of Melbourne.
        * “Biguine amoureuse: Caribbean music in Paris,” John Cowley,
        ICS, University of London.
        * “Jazz Abstraction: Use of Abstraction in Music Performance,” Chris
        Johnson, New School University, NY.

I.      Literary Presents, Political Futures. Chair and Respondent:
        Richard King: Richard.King@nottingham.ac.uk

        * „You are at the edge of a black world:‟ Transnational futures in the
        fiction of WEB Du Bois,” Jenny Terry, University of Durham.
        * “Making Death Wait: Literature and the Racial Geography of
        Race,” Nicole King, Royal Holloway, University of London.
         * “„Seek ye first the Political Kingdom‟ Richard Wright, Frantz
        Fanon, and the Politics of Revolution,” Yogita Goyal, UCLA.

     J. Engaging modernity in (French) West Africa. Chair and
        Respondent: Charles Forsdick: craf@liv.ac.uk

        * "Narrative, Contingency, Modernity: Blackness and Ethnographic
        Citizenship in Jean Rouch‟s Moi, un Noir," Justin Izzo, Duke
        University.
        * "Revolution, Resistance and Modernity: Travelling Identities in La
        noire de… and Soleil O," Sheila Petty, University of Regina, Can.
        * "Recycling Pan-Africanism: The Renaissance Africaine in
        Postcolonial Senegal,” Ferdinand de Jong, UEA.

     K. Modernity reimagined. Chair and Respondent: David Murray:
        david.murray@nottingham.ac.uk
       * “Killing the Past: Modernity Through the Sights of a Gun,” Barbara
       Lewis, U Mass, Boston.
        * “Reading will make you queer: Gender Inversion and the Pursuit
        of Culture in the Harlem Renaissance Novels of Wallace Thurman
        and Claude McKay,” Charles I. Nero, Bates College, ME.
        * “„Haiti on my mind‟: Langston Hughes‟ Haitian Encounter,” Russell
        White, Southampton Solent.

    L. Art and the Black Atlantic. Chair F Sweeney: fsweeney@liv.ac.uk
       * “Exotic Barbarians and Black Machines. The images of New Negro
       in literary and artistic creations of Italian Futurists.,” Przemyslaw
       Strozek, Warsaw.
       * “Carnival Atlantic: Atlantic Carnivals, Afromodernism, anti-colonial
       struggle and Retro-colonial fluxes,” Claire Tancons, Independent
       Curator.
       * “New York, Paris, Mexico City, Kingston: The International
       Perspectives of a Jamaican Artist,” Claudia Hucke, Edna Manley
       College, Jamaica.

M      Politics and Race: Chair and Respondent Lewis Taylor:
       ltaylor@liv.ac.uk and clmarsh@liv.ac.uk

       * “Politics and Race in Modern Black Defence in France: Discourses
       of the Ligue Universelle de Défense de la Race noire‟s Director
       Commitee (1924),” Elsa Geneste, EHESS Paris.
       * “Reading Fanon in America: African Americans in the black power
       era,” Abigail Sarfatti, SOAS.
       * “The Mbari Movement: Transnational Modernity and Cultural
       Nationalism, From Harlem to Ibadan,” Obi Nwakanma, Truman
       State.