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Triumph in My Song:

18th & 19th Century African Atlantic Culture, History, & Performance

May 31 - June 2, 2012

The Society of Early Americanists in cooperation with the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, the David C. Driskell Center, the American Society for Theatre Research, and the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland announce an exciting interdisciplinary conference on May 31-June 2, 2012.

It will be held in the Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Maryland, College Park (just outside Washington, DC).

David C. Driskell, "Woman in Interior"

Schedule

Conference Schedule

May 31

Thursday, May 31

2:30 -- Registration opens in the lobby of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (note that coffee, tea, and other refreshments will be available in the Applause Café in the Clarice Smith Center Performing Arts Center)

4:30-4:45 -- Welcome from the conference committee

5:00-6:30 –- Concurrent Sessions

Session 1: Voices from the Past

CHAIR: Peter Reed , University of Mississippi

Rebeccah Bechtold , "'Swan of Africa': Hearing Race in Elizabeth Greenfield's Vocal Performance"

Syd Nathans , "Alabama Griot: Oral History & Re-Scripting the Plantation Past"

David G. Fletcher , "'The Blues Keep Moving, Keep Moving': The Musical Nonfiction of Post-

Emancipation Slavery in America"

Session 2: Form and Performance in Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

CHAIR: Dwight McBride , Northwestern University

RESPONDENT: Dwight McBride , Northwestern University

Katy Chiles , "Phillis Wheatley's Periodical Performance"

April Langley , "Biblical Paraphrase & Racial Signifying: Civil Discourse in 18th Century Black Writers'

Words"

Caroline Wigginton , "'On Death's domain I fix my eyes': Consolation

and Community in Phillis Wheatley's Funeral Elegies"

June 1

Friday, June 1

7:45-8:30 -- Breakfast/Registration in the lobby of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (breakfast catered in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Lobby)

8:30-9:00 -- Welcome (again!), introductions, and any necessary conference information

9:00-10:30 –- Concurrent Sessions

Session 3: Claiming Spaces in African Atlantic Performance

CHAIR: Rick Bell , University of Maryland

Christopher Apap , "'Not to be a Spectator, but a soldier': The Rise of War Rhetoric in Browns

Transatlantic Travel Writings"

Abigail Cooper , "The ABC Dirge: Religious Performance in Slave Refugee Camps of the Civil War"

Ashon Crawley , "Harriet Jacobs's Crawlspace and the Musical Nonfiction of Post-Emancipation

Slavery in America"

Session 4: The Power of the Word

CHAIR: Douglas Jones , Princeton University

Kathleen Howard , "Antebellum Evangelical Creativity & its Legacy in the Work of Julia C. Collins and

Frances E.W. Harper"

Erika Tanács , "Performativity and Catechization: Religious and Secular Instruction of Slaves in 18th-

Century Cuba"

Steven Thomas , "The Performance of Ethiopia in African-Atlantic Culture: A Transnational and

Multiethnic Genealogy"

Session 5: Claiming the Stage and Taking to the Streets

CHAIR: Gay Gibson Cima , Georgetown University

Heather Cooper , "The Oppressed Are Ever Their Best Representatives: William & Ellen Craft on the

Antislavery Stage"

Patricia A. Lott , "'Til it Begins to be Put Into Practice': Nineteenth Century Black Performance Culture

and the Practice of Reiteration"

John Beckman , "Election Days, Pinkster Day, and the Performance of Democratic Pleasure"

10:30-10:45 -- Coffee break (coffee and refreshments available at the Applause Café in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Café)

10:45-2:15 - Concurrent Sessions

Session 6: Performing Histories, Identities, and Memories

CHAIR: Sandra Richards , Northwestern University

Christy Clark-Pujara , "In the Streets: Public Displays of African Heritage in Rhode Island, 1789-

1821"

Cecile Coquet-Mokoko , "'Before I'll be a Slave, I'll Be Dead in my Grave': Burying Rituals and

Funeral Sermons in Antebellum African America"

Robert Hanserd , "Obayifo to Obeah: Priestly Power and Other Elements of Afro-Atlantic Akan

Identity"

Session 7: PERFORMANCE

" The Du Theatre of the Afro-Surinamese: Artistic Voice of the South American Slave," coordinated by

Kathryn Bentley

Session 8: Smudging the Text: Print, Performance and Racial Reciprocity

CHAIR: Robin Bernstein , Harvard University

Anna Mae Duane , "Ira Aldridge and Acts of Translation"

Sarah Chinn , "'Ira Aldridge, The Black Doctor, and Theorizing Difference"

Brigitte Fielder , "Blackface Desdemona"

Session 9: Obeah in the Atlantic World: Performance, Modernity, and Selfhood

CHAIR: Nicole Aljoe , Northeastern University

Kelly Wisecup , "'The Rites, Ceremonies, and Superstitions of Their Own Countries': Obeah,

Performance, and Resistance"

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon , "Obeah, Performance, Assemblage"

Toni Wall Jaudon , "Setting Obi: Secularity and Affection in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean"

12:15-2:00 -- LUNCH BREAK (The café in the Clarice Smith Center has lunch options, as does the Stamp Student Union food court. There are also restaurants on Route 1 listed in the conference packet.)

2:00-3:30 -- PERFORMANCE AND DISCUSSION : The Whipping Man

3:30-3:45 -- Coffee break (catered in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Lobby)

3:45-5:15 - Concurrent Sessions

Session 10: Dangerous Acts

CHAIR: Ralph Bauer , University of Maryland

Caitlin Marshall , "'Unapproachable Novelties': Race and Disability in Blackface Minstrelsy"

Carlos A. Jauregui , "The Cannibal Rebel"

Nicholas K. Mohlmann , "Columbia's Laurels: Phillis Wheatley Performs America in 'To his Excellency

George Washington'"

Session 11: Making Memories into Myths

CHAIR: TBA

David Mayer , "Mythologizing - Fifty Years After the Event: The Southern Plantation Experience"

William Pencak , "Roland Hayes, Marion Anderson, and Paul Robeson: Making African-American

Music Respectable"

Session 12 : Irony, Satire, and Resistance

CHAIR: Dennis Moore , Florida State University

Steffi Dippold , "The Slave Sculpture That Never Was: Morgan Goodwyn and the Visual Archive of

African-American Emancipation"

Cassander Smith , "Black African Women and the Challenges of Racial Performance in Richard Ligons

A True and Exact History of Barbados "

Holly Brewer , "Performing Resistance to Slavery Amidst Limits on Freedom of the Press and Speech:

Widening our Historical Vision of the Debates over Slavery in the Early British Empire"

5:30-6:30 -- Reception at the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora (map in conference packet)

June 2

Saturday, June 2

8:00-8:45 -- Breakfast/Registration (catered in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Lobby)

8:45-10:15 –- Concurrent Sessions

Session 13: Mediums of Exchange in African Atlantic Culture

CHAIR: Psyche Williams-Forson , University of Maryland

Jurretta Jordan Heckscher , "'Singing the Country': African Ethnicity, American Regionalism, and the

Historical Development of African-American Dance c.1700-1865"

April Masten , "Shared Traditions: The Origins of Negro Jigging in Early America"

Richard K. Merritt , "Performing Resistance: The Martial Arts, Dances, and Combat Sports as

Recorded in North American Slave Narratives"

Leni Sorenson , "Culinary Excellence as Performance: African-American Cooks in pre-Civil War

America"

Session 14: PERFORMANCE

"The Use of Metatheatricality in Telescoping the Slave Past to the Present" featuring Beth Turner ,

Renee Charlow , Kellita Wooten , Shanea Taylor , and Roi Boyd

Session 15: The Archives of African Atlantic Performance

CHAIR: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon , Northeastern University

Nicole Aljoe , "'Talkin Books': Performing the Slave Narrative in the 18th-Century Caribbean"

Alex W. Black , "Archive, Repertoire, Prop? Mary Webb's The Christian Slave "

Soyica Colbert , "Tunnels to Ascent: Harriet Tubman's Political Practice as Performance"

10:15-10:30 -- Coffee break (catered in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Lobby)

10:30-12:00 -- Colloquy on 'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America

MODERATOR: Dennis Moore . Speakers include: Frances Smith Foster , Kathy Bassard , Tess

Chakkalakal , and Mary Helen Washington

12:00-1:30 -- LUNCH

1:30-3:00 - Concurrent Sessions

Session 16: PERFORMANCE

"(Dis)Embodied Voices," coordinated by Valerie Joyce and Kimberley Fairbanks

Session 17: The Uses of Plagiarism: Clotel as Performance

CHAIR: Robert Levine , University of Maryland

RESPONDENT: Ezra Greenspan

Lara Cohen , "Notes from the State of Saint Domingue: The Practice of Citation in Clotel "

Dawn Coleman , "Performing Religion: Clotel 's Borrowed Robes"

Geoffrey Sanborn , "Stuff White People Like: Audience Analysis in William Wells Brown"

Session 18: ROUNDTABLE - Gleaning Africa in the Making of Caribbean Literary

History

CHAIR: Thomas W. Krise , University of the Pacific

Kristina Bross , Purdue University

Richard Frohock , Oklahoma State University

Cassander Smith , University of Alabama

Kelly Wisecup , University of North Texas

3:15-4:45 - Concurrent Sessions

Session 19: Ecstatic Performance at the Borders of Faith and Race

CHAIR: Cassander Smith

Rosemary Guruswamy , "Spiritual Experience and the Compilation of the First African-American

Hymnal"

Neil Meyer , "Death Piety: Indian Converts and White Missionaries in Antebellum America"

Keely Byars-Nichols , "Struck to the Ground: The Religious, Spiritual, and Cultural Transformation of

John Marrant"

Joy A.J. Howard , "Becoming the Other: Reading Shaker Gift Songs from Indian and Negro Spirits"

Session 20: Embodiment, Mimicry, Resistance

CHAIR: Robin Bernstein , Harvard University

Joanne Van der Woude , "Wheatley on Winning and Losing: How Antiquity Speaks to Abolitionism"

Radiclani Clytus , "Visualizing in Black Print: The Brooklyn Correspondence of William J. Wilson, AKA

Ethiop"

Sarah Lewis , "'Pictures and Progress': Frederick Douglass, The Circassian Beauties, and American

Racial Formation"

Session 21: Performing in Black and White

CHAIR: TBA

April Phillips , "Behind the Scientific Scenes: Problems of Performance & Recovery in Eighteenth-

Century African-American Science & Medicine"

Britt Rusert , "Experiments in Freedom: Resisting Antebellum Race Science on the Transatlantic

Stage"

Marvin McCallister , "Familiarizing 'The Stranger': Charleston, SC, Summer 1772"

4:45 -- CLOSE OF CONFERENCE & Thanks to all the participants!

Info

Triumph in My Song Conference Schedule.pdf

SEA

Here for your convenience are the guidelines for the Society of Early Americanists Special Topics Conferences:

To ensure maximum attendance at the conference and in an effort to allow as many people as possible to appear on the program, the SEA has adopted the following guidelines:

A participant may appear on a panel in a substantive role (paper presenter or roundtable speaker or respondent) only once.

A participant may also appear as a panel chair in addition to having a substantive role on another panel.

Each participant will need to register for the conference. To register for this conference, please go to the "Triumph in my Song: 18th & 19th Century African Atlantic Culture, History, & Performance Conference" Registration page.

Everyone who attends the special topics conference is welcome to become a SEA member. To renew a membership or to become a SEA member, please visit the SEA Membership page: www.societyofearlyamericanists.org/membership.html .

If you are proposing a panel, here are the SEA panel guidelines:

Panel Sessions will be one hour and a half, which will allow for brief introductions, 3 papers of 20 minutes each; 4 papers of 15 minutes each; or a Roundtable with 5 speakers of 10 minutes each, followed by 15 minutes for discussion.

Please remember to keep your papers short enough to fit into the time allotted. For instance, a paper that is 10-pages, double-spaced, 12-point, with the font Courier New will take about 20 minutes to read. If you plan to make extemporaneous remarks during the reading of the paper, then please limit your typed paper accordingly.

Panels work best when we can hear all the papers and then have enough time for discussion.

We encourage panels composed of panelists from a variety of institutions and with a range of scholarly experience.

Thanks for your help in making the sessions rewarding experiences for all.

May 31

June 1

June 2

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Location

The University of Maryland website provides excellent directions to campus, as well as links to campus maps for both driving and walking. For more information, including interactive maps that can be personalized from your home location, please visit: http://www.cvs.umd.edu/visitors/maps.html

Map

Hotels

There are numerous hotels within a 1-2 mile range of the UMD campus.

For more information, including phone numbers and addresses, visit: http://www.cvs.umd.edu/visitors/offcampus.html

For parking rates and options around campus, please visit: http://www.cvs.umd.edu/visitors/parking.html

Room Sharing

Food

There is a cafe in the Clarice Smith Center that serves Starbucks Coffee and basic soups and sandwiches. For eating on campus on the weekend, conference participants should visit the Food Court at the Stamp Student Union. There are also many restaurants on the edge of campus on the Route 1/Baltimore Avenue side. These include Noodles & Co, Plato's Diner, Chipotle, Seven Gardens Chinese, etc.

Grants

The Society of Early Americanists regularly provides travel fellowships to encourage wide participation in its annual conferences. This year in particular, SEA seeks to support untenured faculty, graduate students, unemployed scholars, high school teachers, and scholars who receive minimal institutional support for conference travel. Below please find the application form, due via email to: seaconference2012_gmail.com by January 30, 2012.

2012 SEA Travel Grant Application_distributed.pdf

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