Join the Humanities Division at Essex County College on Tuesday, January 29th for our Spring 2013 Conference, “Emancipation: The Meaning of Freedom.” We will explore the meaning of liberation and freedom in a variety of contexts at this stimulating presentation of current scholarship delivered by faculty members from the English, History, and Communications Departments.
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9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks
Prof. Rebecca Williams, Conference Chairperson (M.C.)
Dr. Edythe M. Adbullah, President
Prof. David Berry, Executive Director, Community College Humanities Association
9:15 Keynote Address - Emancipation
Prof. Rebecca Williams, Conference Chairperson (M.C.)
Dr. Edythe M. Adbullah, President
Prof. David Berry, Executive Director, Community College Humanities Association
9:15 Keynote Address - Emancipation
S. Aisha Steplight
Johnson, Ph.D., Dean, Liberal Arts and Sciences
10:00 Session I - Strategies of Defiance Chair: Prof. Sean
O’Connell
“How Transcendentalist Thought Transformed the Black Freedom
Struggle from the
Emancipation Era to the Present Day” Prof. China Clark, Adjunct
Faculty (English)
“Civil Disobedience: The New York City Draft Riots, July 13-16,
1863”
Prof. Sean O’Connell (English)
“All Men are Brothers: Iterations of Freedom and Masculinity in the Fiction of
Louisa May Alcott and Frederick Douglass” Prof. Rebecca Williams (English)
“All Men are Brothers: Iterations of Freedom and Masculinity in the Fiction of
Louisa May Alcott and Frederick Douglass” Prof. Rebecca Williams (English)
11:30 Session II - Envisioning Freedom Chair: Dr. Eileen
DeFreece
“Islam and the Search for
Freedom and Liberty in America”
Prof. Mikal Naeem Nash
(History)
“The Continuum of
Emancipation” Prof. Kelvin D. Clark, Adjunct Faculty (History)
“Emancipation:
Illusionary or Evolutionary? A Discussion of Ralph Ellison’s
Juneteenth” Dr. Eileen DeFreece
(English)
1:00 Session III - Global Liberation Chair: Chante Osborne
“From the Caribbean to New York City: The Scottsboro Nine and
Civil Rights
in Retrospect” Dr. Margaret Stevens (History), Director, Urban Issues Institute
in Retrospect” Dr. Margaret Stevens (History), Director, Urban Issues Institute
“Reconstructing History: Representations of Slavery and Freedom
in the
Work of Oscar Micheaux” Prof. Jennifer Wager (Communications)
Work of Oscar Micheaux” Prof. Jennifer Wager (Communications)
“Legacies of
Emancipation: Sonic Mapping in Mendi+Keith Obadike’s
‘Big House/Disclosure’”
Prof. Shelagh Patterson, Adjunct Faculty (English)
LUNCH 2:30 – 3:40
3:50 Session IV - Academic Roundtable: Emancipation as a Keyword
Chair: Prof. Rebecca
Williams
Speakers: Sean O’Connell,
Jennifer Wager, Margaret Stevens
5:15 Session V - Liberation Aesthetics Chair: Yelena
Lyudmilova
“Interiorities: A Poetry Reading”
Professors Kevin Hayes, Billy Tooma, Rebecca Williams
6:45 Session VI - Film Screening Followed by Q
& A
Slavery by Another Name,
introduced Raymond Spencer, followed by Q & A
