Caribbean Literary Studies & Small Axe Conference
Archaeologies of Black Memory
Archaelolgies of Black Memory - Symposium
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9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. |
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| 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University "Venus in Chains" Moderator: David Scott, Columbia University |
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11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. M. NourbeSe Philip, Independent Scholar and Poet "The Archives of Poetry and the Poetics of Archival Memory" Moderator: Patricia Saunders, University of Miami |
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1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Krista Thompson, Northwestern University "The Black Body and the Archive: The Shadow of Photography in Caribbean History" Moderator: Sandra Pouchet Paquet, University of Miami |
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3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Michael Hanchard, Northwestern University "Between Archive and Memory: Transnational Black Poetics and the Paradox of the Nation" Moderator: David Scott, Columbia University |
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Archaelolgies of Black Memory - Symposium
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9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. |
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| 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Robert Hill, University of California, Los Angeles "After Garvey: The Origin, Development, and Structure of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Papers Archive" Moderator: Charles Carnegie, Bates College |
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1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Verene Shepard, University of the West Indies "The Monument as Public Archive: The JNHT's 'War Memorial' Project & The Archaeology of Black Memory " Moderator: Charles Carnegie, Bates College |
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Key Facts
Dates: Symposium: June 22 to 24 / Seminar: June 25 to 29, 2007
Venue: University of Miami
Fees: Symposium: Open to the Public - Participants are asked to register on line.
Seminar: Twenty Participants will be selected. Fifteen Fellowships are available for qualified Applicants.
Application Deadlines: March 20, 2007
Acceptance Notification: April 20, 2007
Background
As part of its Ford Foundation Grant project entitled Diasporic Knowledges, Small Axe has joined efforts with the Caribbean Literary Studies Program at the University of Miami to host its second conference. This conference, Archaeologies of Black Memory, will explore the relationships between archive, collective memory and public criticism in African Diaspora Studies. Our sense is that the archive has an authorizing function—namely to authorize true pasts, authentic identities, and objective criticism. We have a doubt though that the archive is a transparent apparatus of authorization, a passive source of already existing and perhaps stable materials and sources. Our suspicion is that the archive is best understood as an historically constructed discursive apparatus embedded in ideological relations of power and knowledge. What can be known, by whom, in what natural languages and conceptual idioms, by the mobilization of what criteria of truth and standards of objectivity, by the establishment of what kind of voice and the privileging of what perspective, are therefore matters open to debate, dispute, and therefore transformation. The seminar and symposium will be held at the University of Miami June 21 - 29 and will include other public and private institutions in the Miami Area. Interested persons can apply on line at the following address: http://www.as.miami.edu/english/applications/archaeologies.html.
Conference Program
The program includes two different modules aimed at providing participants with a broad range of opportunities for dialogue, project and curriculum development, research and scholarship.
The Symposium (June 22-24): The two day symposium will feature senior scholars in political science, history, literature, visual arts and popular culture. Their presentations will form the basis for conversations and debates about the problematic of Black Memory and its archival sources and underpinnings. Each scholar has been invited to present on the theme of the conference from the vantage point of their own scholarship and writing. Symposium presenters will include:
- Robert Hill – History, University of California, Los Angeles
- Brent Edwards – English, Rutgers University
- Saidiya Hartman – English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
- Krista Thompson – African Diaspora Art, Northwestern University
- Michael Hanchard – Political Science, Director of Institute on Diaspora Studies, Northwestern University
- M. Nourbese Philip – Poet and independent scholar, Toronto
- Gordon Rohlehr – Languages and Literature, University of the West Indies
The Seminar (June 25-29): The seminar portion will involve a curriculum development workshop for junior faculty, graduate students and high school teachers who will be selected based on their individual interests in incorporating or developing critical links to archival collections and material as part of their pedagogical strategies for teaching New World Black Diaspora Studies.
Extended Public Dialogues
The symposium and seminar will be complimented with evening events hosted by local businesses and educational institutions (museums, bookstores, art galleries.)
Who Should Apply
To the Symposium: Scholars, teachers and students interested in learning more about how archives function within African diaspora studies. For graduate students the symposium will offer a unique opportunity to engage scholars from a number of disciplines who are posing significant questions about the uses of archives for their own research or pedagogy.
To the Seminar: College and university faculty in their first five years of teaching, advanced graduate students, and high school teachers who have an active interest in the critical evaluation and use or archives for teaching the Black diaspora.
Fees
The symposium is free and open to the public. However, given our limited space availability you must fill out an application prior to attendance.
Participation in the seminar module is contingent on your application being accepted and/or the offer of a travel fellowship to cover travel, tuition, and accommodation for both the symposium and the seminar. We will, however, consider faculty applicants who are beyond their fifth year of teaching if their institutions are willing to fund their participation in the seminar.
Travel and Accomodations
The Holiday Inn, Coral Gables/University of Miami will be serving as our official conference hotel. Situated at 1350 South Dixie Highway, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, the hotel is located minutes away from the University of Miami campus where both the symposium and the seminar will take place. Our confirmed rate is USD $84.00 per night. The telephone number is 1-800-HOLIDAY or (305) 667-5611.
Application Procedure
Please fill out the following online application by March 20, 2007. Persons interested in attending and participating in the symposium should fill out the general application form only. Those interested in participating in both the symposium and the seminar should fill out the general application form and the extended form which includes a copy of your CV/resume, a 1000 word statement of intent detailing how you propose to make critical use of archives in teaching an existing or new course. There are a limited number of fellowships that will provide travel and hotel accommodations for symposium and seminar participants. These fellowships are limited to persons who want to attend both the symposium and the seminar. The seminar is limited to twenty participants.
All applications for fellowships must be received by march 20, 2007.
Applicants who plan to attend the symposium only are asked to submit their registration forms by April 1, 2006.
All applicants will be notified by April 20, 2007.
Contact Information
For questions, please contact: Carmen Maria Ruiz-Castaneda at Carmen.ruizcast@gmail.com or Patricia Saunders at psaunders@miami.edu