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Black Studies at Wooster Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration

Black Studies celebrates 25 years at Wooster!

Black Studies 2000: Diasporan Connections

to People, Cultures, and Continents

The year long celebration began with a symposium Sept. 19th. The list of distunguished speakers included:

• John Bracey, Professor of African American Studies, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
• Gerald Horne, Professor of Communication and Afro-American Studies; Director of the Institute of African-American Research
• Obioma Nnaemeka, Professor of Women's Studies and French, IUPUI
• Kwame Dixon, Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Political Science, The College of Wooster

In conjunction with the symposium and celebration, the Art department hosted an opening reception for their exhibit of the College of Wooster's African Art collection on Friday, Sept. 18th from 4:00pm - 5:30pm at the Ebert Art Center.

Also in conjunction with the symposium and celebration there was a revival performance of the coreopoem "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf" directed by Prof. Dale Shields, and featuring the cast that performed this piece at Wooster in the spring '97 semester. This performance took place on Sept. 18th.

The performance of "for colored girls...." was immediately followed by a "Talkback" featuring:

• Woodie King, Founder and Director of The New Federal Theatre, New York City
• Arthur Wilson, Playwright and Director of the Antioch University New Actors Workshop, New York City
• Paul Jackson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Drama, Miami University (Oxford, OH)
• Lois McGuire, Professor, Central State University (Daton, OH)

List of Events by Date:

September 17th. - 18th.

Scholar-in-Residence

Obioma Nnaemeka (co-sponsored with Women's Studies)

 

September 18th.

Opening Reception

African Art Exhibit, Ebert Art Center 4:00- 5:00pm (co-sponsored with Art Department; Kitty Zurko Curator)

Reprise perfromance of "for colored girls..."

8:15pm Freedlander Theatre (in collaboration with the Theatre Department, and with support from the Cultural Events committee and the Hewlett-Mellon fund)

 

September 19th.

Symposium 9:00am - 4:00pm

Freedlander Theatre and Lean Lecture Room

 

September 30th.

Wooster Forum, 8:00pm McGaw

Speaker: Gerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, and Director, African and Afro-American Studies, Washington University

Topic: The Advantages and Disadvantages of African-American Studies Today

November 4th.

Wooster Forum, 7:30pm McGaw

Speakers: Richard Bell, Department of Philosophy; Alphine Jefferson, Department of History; Josephine Wright, Department of Music and the Black Studies Program; and Mary Young, Department of English and the Black Studies Program.

Topic: Du Bois's Trancendent Vision: An Educational Agenda for the 21st. Century

 

April 16-17, 1999

GLCA Black Studies Conference:

Reclaiming the Past, Reshaping the Future: The Black Studies Discourse for the New Millennium

Friday April 16

8:00-9:30am Registration-Lowry Student Center Lobby

9:00-10:30 Welcome Session/ Keynote- Scheide Music Center, Gault Recital Hall

10:45am- 12:15pm Session I: Concurrent Panels

Panel I- DuBois's Transcendent Vision: A cultural Agenda for the 21st Century

Sheide Music Center, Gault Recital Hall

 

Panel II- Global Perspectives in Black Studies

Sheide Music Center, Rm. # 204

 

12:15-1:15pm Lunch, Lowry Student Center Cafeteria

1:30-3:00pm Session II: Concurrent Panels

Panel III- Expanding the parameters of Black Studies: The Carribbean and Latin America

Kauke Hall, Rm# 125

 

Panel IV- Race and the Political Sphere

Kauke Hall,

 

3:15- 4:45pm Session III: Concurrent Panels

Roundtable: Tyrone vs. Kelly Price: Relationships Between Black Women and Black Men

Kauke Hall, Rm# 125

 

Panel V- Critical White Studies

Kauke Hall, Rm.# 126

 

5:30-7:30pm dinner

8:00-10:00pm Music Showcase

Freedlander Theatre

 

Saturday, April 17th

 

8:00-9:00am Breakfast, Lowry Student Center Cafeteria

9:00-10:30am Session IV: Panel

Panel VI- Shaping Systematic Factors in the New Milennium

Wishart Hall, Rm#101

 

10:30- 10:45am Refreshment Break

10:45am Session V: Closing Plenary- Wishart Hall, Lean Lecture Room

12:15-12:30pm- Closing Comments, Wishart Hall, Lean Lecture Room

 

 

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