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August 27, 2008
Symposium: NYC "Slave Routes: Resistance, Abolition & Creative Progress"
SLAVE ROUTES: RESISTANCE, ABOLITION & CREATIVE PROGRESS
An International Symposium in New York City
OCTOBER 9 - OCTOBER 11, 2008
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by the United States of America, New York University's Institute of African American Affairs and Africana Studies Program is hosting an international symposium entitled Slave Routes: Resistance, Abolition and Creative Progress. This symposium, supported by UNESCO's Slave Routes Project, will be co-sponsored by NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge, the Organization of Women Writers of Africa, Inc. and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, with additional support provided by the African Diaspora Slave Routes Organizing Committee. The symposium will be held at New York University and other sites in the New York metropolitan area October 9 - 11, 2008.
Distinguished scholars, writers, musicians, visual artists, and organizers from the international community will
convene at NYU to discuss slavery, the slave trade and its consequences, in plenary, panels, conversations,
performances and film/video screenings including:
Opening Plenary on Thursday, October 9th with Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Mary Frances Berry, Ali Mazrui and others
Aime Cesaire Tribute on Friday, October 10th with Maryse Condé, George Lamming, Jayne Cortez and others
Drums, Horns, Strings Concert on Saturday, October 11th with Randy Weston, Muhal Richard Abrams, Fred Ho, Aniyikaye (Yoruba drum & voice ensemble), Denardo Coleman and the Firespitter Band, The Bill Cole Ensemble, and pianist Nat Dove
Partial List of Participants:
Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Ali Mazrui, Michael Gomez, Mary Frances Berry, Howard Dodson, Craig Calhoun, Christiane Taubira-Delannon, Manthia Diawara, Rutha M. Harris, Jayne Cortez, Ana Edwards,
Sylviane A. Diouf, Graham Russell Hodges, Edward Spriggs, Jennifer Morgan, Herman Bennett, Gloria Browne-Marshall, Robert Chrisman, G. G. Darah, Coleman Jordan, Alison Moses, Ana Lucia Araujo, Saidiya
Hartman, Simone A. James Alexander, Renee Larrier, Simon Deng, Alusine Hassan Kamara, Bakary Tandia, Lisa Aubrey, Kalamu ya Salaam, Randy Weston, Omayemi Agbayegbe, Linda Heywood, John Thornton,
Elombe Brath, Ali Hussein, Nicole C. Lee, J. Michael Dash, Debra Boyd, Maryse Condé, Clayton Eshleman, Abiola Irele, George Lamming, Ronnie Scharfman, Seret Scott, Nat Dove, Sterling Plumpp, Eugene
Redmomd, Ibrahima Seck, Howard Mandel, Guthrie Ramsey, Camille Ann Brewer, C. Daniel Dawson, Melvin Edwards, Abdoulaye Ndoye, Lawrence Guyot, Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, Quincy Troupe and
others.
CONTACT:
The Institute of African American Affairs
212 998-IAAA (4222)
41 East 11th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10003
Free & Open to the Public, except for the concert
REGISTER at: http://africanastudies.as.nyu.edu/object/slaveroutes08
Posted by lois at August 27, 2008 01:30 PM