Thursday, October 15-Sunday, October 18, 2020
The symposium program is available for download here.
Day 1; Session 1: Keynote Lecture Conversation & Q&A
Thursday, October 15 | 5:00-6:15PM EDT /4:00-5:15PM CDT/10:00-11:15PM BST
Friday October 16 | 5.00-6.15AM AWST/8.00-9.15AM AEDT/10-11.15AM NZDT
What Lies Beyond The Plantation?
Deborah A. Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania
The recorded keynote lecture is available here. The symposium’s first live session will feature a moderated discussion and Q&A period.
Day 1; Session 2: Imagined Futures
Thursday, October 15 | 6:30-8:00PM EDT/5.:30-7:00PM CDT/11:30-1:00AM BST
Friday October 16 | 6:30-8:00AM AWST/9:30-11:00AM AEDT/11:30AM-1PM NZDT
“We identify as Sugar Slaves”: Australian South Sea Islander Memorialization in the Global Afterlife of 19C Unfree Labor
Hilary Emmett, Associate Professor, American Studies, University of East Anglia & Clare Corbould, Associate Professor, History, Deakin University, Melbourne
Plantationocene – Plantationobscene – Plantationoscenes
Monique Allewaert, Associate Professor, English, University of Wisconsin-Madison & Sophie Moore, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Australian South Sea Islander VOICES – Creating spaces for acknowledgement, remembrance, and healing
Imelda Miller, Curator, Torres Strait Islander and Pacific Indigenous Studies, Queensland Museum Network, Brisbane, Australia
Day 2; Session 3: Engaging the Site of the Plantation
Friday, October 16 | 9:00-11:00AM EDT / 8:00-10:00AM CDT/ 2:00-4:00PM BST / 9:00PM-11:00 PM AWST
Saturday, October 17 | 12:00-2:00AM AEDT / 2:00-4:00AM NZDT
Imagining freedom, constructing a politics of relationality on Natal’s “plantation”: the aesthetics of Afrapix photographers’ resistance photography
M. Neelika Jayawardane, Associate Professor, English, State University of New York-Oswego
Circling around the plantation: Simryn Gill’s Becoming Palm (2018)
Emilia Terracciano, Writer, Translator, and Lecturer, Art History and Cultural Practices Department, University of Manchester
Cocos Keeling: The Unplanned Family Plantation
Michael Laffan, Professor, History, Princeton University
Tuskegee and the Plantationocene: Toward a Theory of Eco-Ontology in Black Studies
Jarvis McInnis, Cordelia & William Laverack Family Assistant Professor, English, Duke University
Day 2; Session 4: Recycling the Plantation
Friday, October 16 | 5:00-7:00PM EDT / 4:00-6:00PM CDT / 10:00PM-12:00AM BST
Saturday October 17 | 5:00-7:00AM AWST / 8:00-10:00AM AEDT / 10:00AM-12:00PM NZDT
Returning to the Cane
Andil Gosine, Professor of Environmental Arts & Justice, York University, Toronto
Being South Sea: between presence and absence
Jasmine Togo-Brisby
The Speculative Plantation
Amy Clukey
A Conversation between Lacey Wilson and Olivia Williams
Lacey Wilson, Site Manager, Charlotte Hawkins Brown Historic Site & Olivia Williams, Cultural History Interpreter, McLeod Plantation Historic Site
Day 3; Session 5: Plantation Effects
Saturday, October 17 | 8:00-10:00AM EDT / 7:00-9:00 AM CDT / 1:00-3:00PM BST / 8:00-10:00PM AWST
Sunday, October 18 | 11:00-1:00AM AEDT / 1:00-3:00AM NZDT
Bolt to Fabric: Cotton, Black Matter, White Form
Tiffany Lethabo King, Associate Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University
Fi Dem II
Zinzi Minott, Dancer and Filmmaker
It is the Sea that Connects Us
Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Assistant Professor, African American Studies and Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Shiraz Bayjoo, Visual Artist
Day 3; Session 6: Plantation Inheritances
Saturday, October 17 | 5:00-7:00PM EDT / 4:00-6:00PM CDT / 10:00PM-12:00AM BST
Sunday, October 18 | 5:00-7:00AM AWST / 8:00-10:00AM AEDT / 10:00AM-12:00PM NZDT
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
Gaiutra Bahadur, Essayist, Critic, Journalist, and Assistant Professor, Arts, Culture and Media, Rutgers University-Newark
BLACKBIRD
Amie Batalibasi, Writer, Director, and Producer
Wild Cotton
Imani Uzuri, Vocalist, Composer, and Cultural Worker
Timezones
EDT: US Eastern Daylight Time
CDT: US Central Daylight Time
BST: British Summer Time
AEDT: Australian Eastern Daylight Time
AWST: Australian Western Standard Time
NZDT: New Zealand Daylight Time