About the Event
- Friday, March 7th (9am - 6pm)
- Saturday, March 8th (11:30am-6pm)
- More details on the symposium schedule coming soon.
In 2004, in a speech about the painter Romare Bearden, Toni Morrison argued that critics must appreciate the “liquidity” between Black art forms, the “resonances, alignments, the connections, the inter-genre sources of African American art… the resounding aesthetic dialogue among artists.” “Locating instances of this liquidity,” Morrison explained, “is vital if African American art is to be understood for the complex work that it is and for the deep meaning it contains.”
In that spirit, this two-day symposium at Rice University will explore the rich interplay between African American literature and the other arts, in connection with a special issue of the journal African American Review on that topic. Guest speakers will share work-in-progress–including critical essays and original poems–and participate in roundtable conversations.
The symposium is free and open to the public; all are warmly welcome to attend!
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Participants include:
Herman Beavers, Honey Crawford, Leslie Wingard Cunningham, Eve Dunbar, Brittney Edmonds, Julius Fleming, Tonya Foster, A. Van Jordan, Joshua Kotin, Kiese Laymon, Alyssa Lopez, Kya Mangrum, Hayley O’Malley, Stephen Pasqualina, Rachel Quinn, Noa Saunders, Evie Shockley, and J. Ken Stuckey
The symposium is made possible through generous support by the following:
The Center for African and African American Studies
The Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
The Creative Ventures Funds
The Department of Art
The Department of Anthropology
The Department of Art History
The Department of English
The Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures
The Humanities Research Center
The Moody Center for the Arts
The Office of the Dean of Humanities
Questions? Please contact Hayley O’Malley (homalley@rice.edu)
[Image: Photograph by Griffith J. Davis (Courtesy of Dorothy Davis, Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Archives LLC)]
