PROGRAM: Sunday | May 11, 2014 10:00 • Opening Session Manthia Diawara - Welcoming Remarks Margo Natalie Crawford – Introducing the Conference Salah Hassan - Introductory Remarks 10:30 AM-13:00 PM • Blackness, Pan-Africanism, and Internationalism Moderator: Joanna Grabski The Third Pan-African Conference and Black Internationalism / Zita Nunes Of Black Gloss: Reading Bingo Magazine in the Age of Pan-African Festivals / Tsitsi Jaji Blackness and Pan Africanism: Le Festival Panafricain d’Alger 1969 / Ahmed Bedjaoui Discussants: Manthia Diawara and Souleymane Bachir Diagne 13:00 PM • Lunch Break 14:00 PM–14:30 PM Special Presentation: Melvin Edwards: Journey of a Sculptor and the Poetics of Relations (Melvin Edwards: Parcours d’un sculpteur et poétique de la relation) / Lydie Diakhaté 14:30 –16:30 PM • Blackness and Pan-Africanism: Literary and Visual Aesthetics Moderator: Kokahvah Zauditu-Selassie Re-Reading Senghor today / Souleymane Bachir Diagne The Dak’Art Biennial and Global Black Cultural Politics in the 20th Century / Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi “Listen Up!”: Black Consciousness in South African Art of the 1970s / Shannen Hill Encounters with Africa: James Baldwin and the Making of Global Black Consciousness / Dagmawi Woubshet Discussants: Zita Nunes and Tsitsi Jaji 16:30 PM • Reception: Coffee and Tea 19:00 PM • KEYNOTE EVENT/FILM SCREENING: Keynote Address: "Présence Africaine and the 1956 First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists" Manthia Diawara, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Film, New York University. Film Screening: Manthia Diawara, Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation (Color, 52 Minutes, French and English, 2010, K’a Yéléma Productions). Moderator: Samba Gadjigo Place: THEATRE NATIONAL DANIEL SORANO (45, Bd. de la République, Dakar) Monday | May 12, 2014 10:00 AM–12:30 PM • Global Black Consciousness: Aesthetically Speaking Moderator: Selene Wendt The Diasporic Power of Black Abstraction: “Black” as a Unifying Concept and a Strategic Abstraction / Margo Natalie Crawford Bandung Holograms: The Black Voice as Movement Technology / Shana L. Redmond Sudanesia / Richard J. Powell The Collision of African American Modernities at the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar / Penny M. Von Eschen Discussants: Elvira Dyangani Ose and Dagmawi Woubshet 12:30 PM–14:00 PM • Lunch break 14:00 PM-14:20 PM Special Presentation: The Photography of Bob Crawford: FESTAC’77 / Romi Crawford 14:30 PM-16:30 PM • Global Blackness Localized Moderator: Amanda Gilvin Harlem to the Kasbah: Claude McKay, the Jazz Age and the Gnawa Movement / Hisham Aidi The Representation of Slavery in Literature and Popular Culture in Arabia and the Gulf / Ahmad Alawad Sikainga Global Blackness Localized: Rethinking the Color Line in Sudan / Salah M. Hassan Discussants: Margo N. Crawford and Shana L. Redmond 16:30- 17:00 PM • Poetry Reading/Closing Session: Quincy Troupe 20:00 • Dinner Reception/Party All sessions will take place at: Hôtel Sokhamon, Avenue du President Fr. Roosevelt, Dakar, Senegal, Tel. +221 33 889 71 00

“Global Black Consciousness”