{"id":3305,"date":"2016-07-12T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T17:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&p=3305"},"modified":"2016-12-16T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T21:01:52","slug":"hurston125-engaging-with-the-work-and-legacy-of-zora-neale-hurston","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/hurston125-engaging-with-the-work-and-legacy-of-zora-neale-hurston\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurston@125: Engaging with the Work and Legacy of Zora Neale Hurston"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE<\/a>
\nREGISTER
\n<\/a>CONFERENCE SCHEDULE & PROGRAM<\/a>
\nSPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES<\/a><\/h4>\n

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<\/a>ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE<\/h4>\n

Zora Neale Hurston, a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University, has received great acclaim for her literary work, particularly the highly influential novel <\/span>Their Eyes Were Watching God<\/span><\/i>. In honor of the 125th anniversary of Hurston\u2019s birth, BCRW celebrates Hurston’s legacy with a one-day symposium that\u00a0brings together emerging scholars whose work builds upon Hurston’s less well-known training in anthropology and interdisciplinary modes of analysis and expression. The program will include panel discussions and a film screening of Hurston\u2019s ethnographic work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers will include\u00a0Alex Alston, John L. Jackson, Jr., Adriana Garriga-Lopez, Tami Navarro, Mariel Rodney, Patricia Stuelke, Deborah Thomas, Sarah E. Vaughn, Bianca Williams, and Autumn Womack.<\/p>\n

<\/a>REGISTER<\/h4>\n

Registration is preferred but not required.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>CONFERENCE SCHEDULE & PROGRAM<\/h4>\n

10:00 AM:\u00a0Welcome<\/p>\n

10:30-11:30 AM: Opening Keynote<\/p>\n

Thick Depiction: How Taking Film Seriously Should Change Ethnography<\/strong>
\nJohn L. Jackson, Jr.<\/p>\n

12:00-1:30 PM: Lunch & Film Screening<\/p>\n

“Hurston’s Ethnography”<\/strong>
\nDiscussion with Deborah A. Thomas and\u00a0John Jackson, Jr.<\/p>\n

1:30-3:00 PM: Panel Session 1<\/p>\n

Hurston as Theory\/Zora\u2019s Avant-Garde
\n<\/strong>Alex Alston, Patricia Stuelke, Mariel Rodney & Autumn Womack<\/p>\n

Featuring new work by emerging and junior scholars, this panel explores Hurston\u2019s novels, stories, essays, and folklore as a form of literary or narrative theory, as well as a theorization of avant-garde literary practices. Investigating Hurston\u2019s engagement with blackface minstrelsy as a counterintuitive practice of refusal, her early engagement with sound studies via the folkloric elements in her fiction, her innovative narrative critiques of ethnographic methodology and early sociology, and her Caribbean explorations as a base for critiques of US imperialism and neoliberal policies in the region, these panelists take Hurston\u2019s work into new territory. ZNH@125 emerges as not only, \u201cnovelist, folklorist and genius of the south,\u201d but also as a creative woman throwing a \u201cstraight lick with a crooked stick.\u201d<\/p>\n

3:00-3:30 PM: Break<\/p>\n

3:30-5:00 PM: Panel Session 2<\/p>\n

Hurston as Anthropology
\n<\/strong>Adriana Garriga-Lopez, Tami Navarro, Sarah E. Vaughn & Bianca Williams<\/p>\n

This panel features work by four anthropologists working across the Caribbean. Like Hurston\u2019s anthropology, their work is grounded in ethnographic connection with the region and its multiple diasporas. Unlike Hurston, these scholars are writing in what many see as a modern, decolonized, anthropology. This panel highlights the multiple contemporary socio-cultural processes involved in making \u2018place,\u2019 and draws us into a dialogue about Hurston\u2019s legacy in the field.<\/p>\n

5:00-5:30 PM: Break<\/p>\n

5:30-6:30 PM:\u00a0Closing Keynote<\/p>\n

Diaspora at the Dawn of the 20th Century: \u00a0Embodied Knowledge and Politics Reconsidered<\/strong>
\nDeborah Thomas<\/p>\n

<\/a>SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES<\/h4>\n

Alex Alston<\/strong> is a second year PhD student at UC-Riverside working in Black Studies. A 2014\u00a0MA in African American Studies from Columbia University, he uses 20th century African\u00a0American Literature, largely of the US South, including Zora Neale Hurston and Charles\u00a0Chestnutt among others, to think through questions around the discursive-material category of the human and its construction against blackness.<\/p>\n

Dr. Adriana Mar\u00eda Garriga-L\u00f3pez<\/strong> is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Anthropology Department during the fall semester of 2016. She is on sabbatical from Kalamazoo College in Michigan where she serves as Associate Professor of Anthropology. Garriga-L\u00f3pez holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (2010,) as well as Master of Arts (2003) and Master of Philosophy (2006) degrees in Anthropology from Columbia University in New York, under the supervision of Neni Panourgia. She holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Comparative Literature from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (2001,) where she co-founded LLEGO! (The Queer People of Color Union of Rutgers University.) Adriana was a Ph.D. student in the History of Consciousness Board of the University of California in Santa Cruz between 2000-2002, under the supervision of Donna Haraway.\u00a0Her ethnographic research focuses on contagious disease and public health cultures in Puerto Rico, with an emphasis on the island\u2019s political context. She is currently editing a book manuscript on “the coloniality of health in Puerto Rico,” which is based in part on doctoral, ethnographic research on HIV\/AIDS. In addition to her academic writing, Garriga-L\u00f3pez publishes poetry and short fiction in English and Spanish. She is also a performance artist, muralist, and soprano. Her creative work has appeared in Cruce, 80 Grados, Sargasso, Ad Hoc, African Writing, The Columbia Review, Beyond Polarities, and Piso 13. Finally, Adriana is at work on a book of poems entitled Ratchet of the Earth.<\/i><\/p>\n

John L. Jackson, Jr.<\/strong> is the Richard Perry University Professor of Communication,\u00a0Anthropology, and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Jackson is an\u00a0anthropologist with a particular interest in ethnographic film and visual studies. He is widely\u00a0known for his dynamic engagement with critical race studies, evident in his publications\u00a0Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America<\/em>; Real Black: Adventures in\u00a0<\/em>Racial Sincerity<\/em>; and Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness<\/em>.\u00a0With Deborah Thomas, he is the co-creator of the non-fiction film\u00a0Bad Friday: Rastafari After\u00a0Coral Gardens<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Tami Navarro<\/strong> is the Associate Director for the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Her\u00a0work focuses on the intersection of international financial institutions and cultural production in the US Virgin Islands. By examining the emergence of neoliberal structures of banking and\u00a0governance and how these forms intertwine with daily life in the Caribbean, she highlights the\u00a0ways that new financial forms result in the entrenchment of various processes of racialization.\u00a0With this she brings critical race theory to discussions of uneven geographic development.<\/p>\n

Mariel Rodney<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Literature at SUNY Purchase, is a recent PhD in English\u00a0from Columbia University. An interdisciplinary scholar of African American literature and\u00a0performance, she is currently at work on her first book manuscript, which examines how writers\u00a0and performers alike imagine political and creative routes to freedom and \u201cnewness\u201d in the 19th\u00a0and 20th century. Her research interests include Afro-Caribbean intellectual traditions, sound\u00a0and music studies, and the \u201cmodern\u201d novel. Her most recent work explores the Harlem\u00a0Renaissance and Afro-Caribbean women in depth by centralizing the histories of lesser known\u00a0artists and activists. As an avid teacher and mentor, Rodney has developed courses in and\u00a0lectured on American literature, music, and culture at Columbia University, the City University of\u00a0New York, and Princeton University. She is the recipient of two fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She first joined the literature faculty at Purchase College in 2014\u201315 as a\u00a0part-time lecturer.<\/p>\n

Patricia Stuelke<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. Her work has\u00a0appeared in Modernism\/modernity, American Literature, American Quarterly, Photography and\u00a0Culture, and College Literature. She was recently awarded the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize from\u00a0the Society of Southern Literature for her article on the black feminist recovery of Zora Neale\u00a0Hurston and the neoliberal transformation of the Caribbean. Her current book project, The\u00a0Making of the Affective Turn, is a literary and cultural history of the transition to neoliberalism in\u00a0the Americas in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Deborah Thomas<\/strong> is Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at the University of\u00a0Pennsylvania. Her ethnographic work has largely been conducted in the Caribbean region\u00a0(particularly Jamaica), where she has theorized the complexity of life in what Jamaica Kincaid\u00a0has called a \u201csmall place.\u201d Most recently, Thomas has taken up the issue of decontextualized\u00a0violence and situated it firmly as an outgrowth of Jamaica\u2019s violent colonial past. Like Hurston,\u00a0Thomas works and thinks through the African diaspora, attempting to unearth both the ties that\u00a0bind–and the divisions that separate–its members.<\/p>\n

Sarah E. Vaughn<\/strong> is a post-doctoral scholar in the environmental anthropology program at Yale\u00a0University. Her work focuses on questions of colonial and postcolonial science in Guyana. With\u00a0an examination of both soil science and hydrology she demonstrates how seemingly neutral\u00a0sciences of sustainability are always intertwined with racial logics and how, when connected\u00a0with contemporary development projects, certain conditions for environmental justice are set\u00a0and limited in the post-colonial Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Bianca Williams<\/strong> is an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado,\u00a0Boulder. Her work examines theories of race within diasporic communities with special attention\u00a0to the United States and Jamaica. Focusing on how African American women create self and\u00a0other through travel, new media technology, and how their experiences allow for a trenchant\u00a0critique of racism, sexism and ageism in American culture, her work brings to the fore questions\u00a0about the affective dimensions of race and gender.<\/p>\n

Autumn Womack<\/strong> received her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia\u00a0University in 2013, specializing in nineteenth- and early-twentieth century African American\u00a0literature. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh\u00a0where her research and writing focuses on the relationship between visual culture, reform, and\u00a0African American literary production. She is a 2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow in African\u00a0American Literature at Rutgers University and a 2016-2017 Faculty Fellow at Penn State\u00a0University’s Center for the History of Information. Her essays and book reviews had appeared,\u00a0or are forthcoming, in Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Women and Performance,\u00a0American Literary History, SmallAxe Salon, e-misferica, and Cambridge University Press’ multivolume\u00a0series African American Literature in Transition, 1850-65. She is currently at work on\u00a0her first book manuscript, “Re-form Vision: Race, Visuality, and Literature, 1890-1930.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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