University of California Consortium for Black Studies in California
The Autumn Research Conference – at UC Irvine – November 14th and 15th 2016
The Beckman Center, Irvine, CA
Monday, November 14, 2016
Organized by the Fifth Floor: A Workshop and Discussion Series at UC Irvine
8:30 – 9:15AM Coffee and Tea
9:15 – 9:30AM Welcome and Introductions
Kimberley McKinson (UC Irvine), Bridget R. Cooks (UC Irvine), Georges Van Den Abbeele (UC Irvine)
9:30 – 10:30AM Keynote: Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt) and Alexander Weheliye (Northwestern) in Dialogue – An Opening Conversation
10:30 – 10:45AM Coffee and Tea Break
10:45AM – 12:00PM The Ongoing Conversation: Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt) and Alexander Weheliye (Northwestern), in discussion with the Audience
12:00 – 1:30 PM LUNCH BREAK
1:30 – 2:50PM Collective Conversation – “The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date,”
Curated and moderated by Bryan Wagner (UC Berkeley) and Bridget R. Cooks (UC Irvine)
2:50 – 3:00PM Coffee and Tea Break
3:00 – 3:50M Alexander Weheliye, (Northwestern) Author – A Discussion of Habeas Viscus – with Nahum Dimitri Chandler (UC Irvine)
3:50 – 4:00PM Coffee and Tea Break
4:00 – 5:15PM Screening: Dreams are Colder Than Death (2013) and Love is the Message, the Message is Death (2016), by Arthur Jafa (Director)
5:15 – 6:00PM Q & A with the Arthur Jafa and Panel Discussion
6:00 – 7:00PM Reception
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Organized by the Workshops in Contemporary Critical Black Thought at UC Irvine
9:00 – 9:45AM Morning Coffee and Conversation
9:45 – 10:00AM Introductions
10:00 – 10:50AM Doctoral Project Reports and Reasoning: The Reports
Jarvis R. Givens (UC Berkeley), Ana Karina de Morais (UC Santa Cruz), Mychal Matsemela-Ali Odom (UC San Diego), Jas Riley (UC Riverside), Melissa Whitley (UCLA), Anndretta Lyle Wilson (UCLA), presenters
10:50 – 11:00AM Coffee and Tea Break
11:00AM – 12:00PM Doctoral Project Reports and Reasoning: The Reasoning
Stephanie Batiste (UC Santa Barbara), facilitator
12:00 – 1:00PM LUNCH BREAK
1:00 – 1:50PM Faculty Project Reports and Reasoning: The Reports
Bridget R. Cooks (UC Irvine), Kelly Gates (UC San Diego), Nigel Hatton (UC Merced), Ula Y. Taylor (UC Berkeley), Bryan Wagner (UC Berkeley), presenters
1:50 – 2:00PM Coffee and Tea Break
2:00 – 3:00PM Faculty Project Reports and Reasoning: The Reasoning
Nahum Dimitri Chandler (UC Irvine), facilitator
3:00 – 3:15PM Coffee and Tea Break
3:15 – 5:00PM Black Studies in California – Perspectives from UC Irvine
Doctoral Projects: Kimberley Danielle McKinson (UC Irvine), Marketus Presswood (UC Irvine), Williston Chase (UC Irvine), Jamie Rogers (UC Irvine)
The Publications: Lily Phillips (UC Irvine), Nahum Dimitri Chandler (UC Irvine)
The Workshops: Jessica Millward (UC Irvine), Tiffany Willoughby Herard (UC Irvine), Kavita Philip (UC Irvine), Horacio Legras (UC Irvine), Bridget Cooks (UC Irvine), Darryl Taylor (UC Irvine).
5:00– 5:15PM Formal Close of the Conference
