Conference Agenda
Friday, September 28, 2007:
5:30 – 7:00: | Opening reception for the exhibition and conference |
7:00: | Keynote address by Dr. Richard J. Powell (Duke) - "Paint that Thing! Aaron Douglas and the Harlem Renaissance Call to Modernism" |
8:30: | Banquet in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union - $50 |
Saturday, September 29, 2007:
8:00: | Continental breakfast and registration |
9:00: | Welcome by William J. Harris |
9:15 – 10:00: | Historical/Cultural Context: Gerald Early (Washington University, St. Louis), Hall Center Lecturer - "The New Negro Movement and What It Wrought" |
10:00 – 10:45: | Art: Amy Kirschke (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) - "Aaron Douglas and the Harlem Renaissance: The Visual Rhetoric of Identity and Memory" |
10:45 – 11:15: | Mid-morning break |
11:15 – noon: | Literature: Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia) - "Aaron Douglas and The Literary Luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance" |
noon – 1:30: | Buffet lunch available for attendees and participants - $15 Book signing |
1:30 – 2:15: | Music: Robert O'Meally (Columbia) - "Aaron Douglas's Concentric Circles: Kings and Queens of the Blues" |
2:15 – 3:00: | Dance: Brenda Dixon Gottschild (Temple, emerita) - "The Stories Pictures Tell: Dance Footprints in Selected Works of Aaron Douglas" |
3:00 – 3:15: | Break |
3:15 – 4:00: | Theatre: David Krasner (Emerson College) "Dark Tower and the Saturday Nighters: Two Directions in African American Drama" |
4:00 – 4:45: | An Artist's Perspective: Terry Adkins (University of Pennsylvania) "The Vigilant Torch of an Olympian Painter" |
4:45 – 5:30: | Roundtable |
5:30 – 6:30: | Reception |
8:00 - 11:00: |
Cabaret & Harlem Renaissance-style "Rent Party" at the Kansas Union Ballroom - $10 general public, $5 students with I.D. Refreshments / Cabaret performances conceived and directed by KU alumnus Eric Avery Live jazz by Kansas City's American Jazz Museum All Stars with Bobby Watson: Watson (alto sax), Tyrone Clark (bass), Gerald Dunn (tenor sax), Jason Goudeau (trombone), Al Pearson (trumpet), and Monica Warren (percussion) Additional music by Lawrence deejay Josh Powers (a.k.a. Scenebooster) |