TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Alabama will host the 25th annual Symposium of English and American Literature, Sept. 27-29, at the Bryant Conference Center.
Titled “Writing Race Across the Atlantic World: 1492-1763,” the symposium will begin on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 8 p.m. in Morgan Auditorium with opening remarks by the distinguished African-American playwright August Wilson, who will speak on “Writing Race in America.”
Cleo Thomas, the first African-American SGA President and a current member of the UA board of trustees, will introduce Wilson. This year’s topics will include immigrants and native peoples, slavery and race, race and culture, race and ethnicity, and a final colloquium.
For more conference and registration information, go to http://www.as.ua.edu/english/symposium/index.htm or call Dr. Gary Taylor or Dr. Philip Beidler in the department of English at 205/348-5065.
25th Annual Symposium on English and American Literature – Topic and Speaker Schedule
Friday, Sept. 28
I. Immigrants and Native Peoples
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Bryant Conference Center
Welcome:
George Wolfe, University of Alabama English Department
Barbara Fuchs (University of Washington, English and Spanish and Portuguese);
“A Mirror Across the Water: Mimetic Racism and Cultural Survival.”
Introduced by Connie Janiga-Perkins, Director, UA Latin American Studies
Program:
Karen Ordahl Kupperman (New York University, History)
“Angels in America”
Introduced by Ed Tang, UA American Studies Department
Gordon Sayre (University of Oregon, English) “Prehistoric Diasporas: Colonial Theories of the Origins of Native American Peoples.”
Introduced by Richard Krause, UA Anthropology Department
II. Slavery and Race
2 p.m.-5 p.m. Bryant Conference Center
Joseph Roach (Yale University, Theatre and African-American Studies);
“Fresh Produce”
Introduced by Ed Williams, UA Theatre Department
Jennifer Morgan (Rutgers University, History and Women’s and Gender Studies);
“Summoning the Scribe: Estate Dispersal and Racial Slavery in Early American Slave Societies”
Introduced by Amilcar Shabazz, Director, UA African American Studies
Kim Hall (Fordham University, English); “Extravagant Viciousness’: Slavery and Gluttony in the Works of Thomas Tryon”
Introduced by Robert Young, UA English Department
Alabama Blues at 4th and 23rd: 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 29
III. Race and Culture
10 a.m.-12 p.m. Bryant Conference Center
Mary Floyd-Wilson (Yale University, English)
“Othello, Passion, and Race”
Introduced by Celia R. Daileader, UA English department
Francesca Royster (DePaul University, English)
“Working Like A Dog:” African Labor and Racing: The Human-Animal Divide in Early Modern England”
Introduced by Tony Bolden, UA English Department
IV. Race and Ethnicity
1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Bryant Conference Center
Benjamin Braude (Boston College, History)
“Michelangelo and the Curse of Ham: From a Typology of Jew-Hatred to a Genealogy of Racism”
Introduced by Steve Jacobs, UA Judaic Studies
David Baker (University of Hawaii, English)
“Errour’s Children: Milk, Blood, and ‘Race’ in Late Sixteenth-Century Ireland”
Introduced by Michael Mendle, UA History Department
V. Colloquium
4:00 p.m.
Contact
Lance M. Skelly, Office of Media Relations, (205) 348-3782
Source
Dr. Gary Taylor, (205) 348-6538