Conference Schedule

Preliminary schedule for Exploring Beauty and Truth in Worlds of Color: A Conference on Race, Art, and Aesthetics in the 21st Century.

Friday, September 29
Location Tappan Room The Hotel at Oberlin, 2nd Floor
8:30 a.m. Opening Statements/Welcome
	Tim Elgren Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Oberlin College
9 to 10:20 a.m. Session I: Fashion
	Moderator Afia Ofori-Mensa Oberlin College Panelists Siobhan Carter-David Southern Connecticut State University “Dressing the Black Body in Post-Civil Rights America: An Anthropometric View” Monica Miller Barnard College “’Serving Afro-Scandinavian Fresh’: Krull Magazine and the Emergence of Black Swedish Style”
10:30 to 11:50 a.m. Session II: Technology
	Moderator Jonathan Maskit Denison University Panelists Sam Liao University of Puget Sound “Racist Things” Aria Dean Net Art/The New Museum TBA
12 to 1:20 p.m. Lunch
1:30 to 2:50 p.m. Session III: Afro-Futurism
	Moderator Kazim Ali Oberlin College Panelists Meredith Gadsby Oberlin College “Caribbean Speculative and Fabulist Fiction: The Praxis of Being Human” Caitlin O'Neill University of Texas-Austin “Poor Unfortunate Souls: Reimagining Walt Disney’s Ursula as a Site of Black Queerness and Femininity”
3 to 4:20 p.m. Session IV: Humor
	Moderator Stephanie Patridge Otterbein University Panelists Gillian Johns Oberlin College “Humor (Theory) and the (Articulate) Surprise of Race” Luvell Anderson University of Memphis “Black Humor, White Interpretation” Lissa Skitolsky Susquehanna University “Holocaust Humor as Defiance of Post-Racial Discourse”
4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Keynote Address
	Kymberly Pinder University of New Mexico “We Have Voice, We Have Temper: African American Artists and Public Discourse”
5:30 p.m. Dinner/Free Time

Saturday, September 30
Location Hallock Auditorium Adam J. Lewis Center
8:30 to 9:50 a.m. Session V: Film
	Moderator Rian Brown-Orso Oberlin College Panelists Dan Flory Montana State University “Zootopia, Epistemological Twist, and Implicit Racial Bias” Matt Strohl University of Montana “Racial Horror” V. Denise James University of Dayton “I Am Not Entertained: Slave Movies and the Black Feminist Gaze”
10 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. Session VI: Visual Art
	Moderator Johnny Coleman Oberlin College Panelists Nkiru Nzegwu Binghamton University “African Art in Deep Time: De-Race-ing Aesthetics and De-Racializing Visual Art” Ivan Gaskell Bard Graduate Center “The Marble Index of Nineteenth Century American Identity” Matthew Rarey Oberlin College “At the Edge of the Water: Possibilities for a Black Atlantic Art History”
11:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. Lunch
1 to 2:20 p.m. Session VII: Music
	Moderator Lee McBride The College of Wooster Panelists Fredara Hadley Oberlin Conservatory “’Cause I Slay: Beyoncé and the Aesthetics of ‘Genius’ in the Musical Performance of Black Women” Chris Jenkins Oberlin Conservatory “‘Signifyin(g)’ in Perkinson: Applying Black Aesthetics to African-American Classical Music Composition” Aaron Meskin University of Leeds “Rap Aesthetics, Black Aesthetics”
2:30 to 3:50 p.m. Session VIII: Theater
	Moderator Justin Emeka Oberlin College Panelists Justin Emeka Oberlin College “Playing with Race: Casting Black and Brown Bodies in White Classical Theater” Harvey Young Northwestern University “The Black Body as Show” Caroline Jackson-Smith Oberlin College “Hung By Hook or By Crook: Dissonance and the Depiction of the Lynched Black Body”
4 to 5 p.m. Session IX: Student Panel This panel will discuss the chapter “Make It Funky; Or, Music's Cognitive Travels and the Despotism of Rhythm” from Paul Taylor's Black Is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics.
	Moderator Kate Thomson-Jones Oberlin College Panelists Theodora Nestorova Oberlin Conservatory Kennedy Kline Oberlin College, Philosophy
5 to 6 p.m. Session X: Curriculum/Pedagogy
	Moderator A.W. Eaton University of Illinois-Chicago Panelists Monique Roelofs Hampshire College ASA Curriculum Diversification Grant recipient “Aesthetics, Blackness, and Race: Culture as a Web of Address” Mariana Ortega Pennsylvania State University ASA Curriculum Diversification Grant recipient “Aesthetic Othering: The Case of Photographic Representation” Meilin Chinn University of Santa Clara ASA Curriculum Diversification Grant recipient “Lessons for Philosophy from Zhuangzi's Frog in the Well”
6 p.m. Closing Comments

Sunday October 1
Departures