Dear Graduate Students, Please see the information below about a conference taking place on Thursday Oct 24 and Friday Oct 25 at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Avenue) to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy's landmark study, The Black Atlantic. Queens College faculty member and MA instructor, Professor Duncan Faherty, will be one of the speakers at the roundtable on Thursday evening. The event is free and open to everyone. You'll just need to show a picture ID (your QC card is fine) in order to enter the building. All best wishes, Andrea Walkden Assistant Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu<mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu> English Department Klapper Hall, Room 604 Queens College, CUNY From: English department faculty and staff [mailto:englishdept@lists.qc.cuny.edu] On Behalf Of duncan.faherty@qc.cuny.edu Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 1:37 PM To: englishdept@qc.edu Subject: [EnglishDept 0578] The Black Atlantic @ Twenty [http://centerforthehumanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2_...] Oct 24, 2013 & Oct 25, 2013 (All Day) | Conference The Black Atlantic @ Twenty Herman Bennett<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/herman-bennett> Jacqueline Brown<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/jacqueline-brown> Susan Buck-Morss<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/susan-buck-morss> Tina Campt<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/tina-campt> Kandice Chuh<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/kandice-chuh> Duncan Faherty<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/duncan-faherty> Sujatha Fernandes<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/sujatha-fernandes> Ruth Wilson Gilmore<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/ruth-wilson-gilmore> Paul Gilroy<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/paul-gilroy> Eric Lott<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/eric-lott> Stephan Palmié <http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/stephan-palmi%C3%A9> Robert Fitzgerald Reid-Pharr <http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/robert-fitzgerald-reid-pharr> Keynote: Paul Gilroy, English, King's College, London. Twenty years after the publication of Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), scholarship no longer simply posits the relationship between blackness and modernity as an irreconcilable problem. Though Gilroy posited The Black Atlantic as a 'heuristic' work, his ideas engendered debates in history, anthropology, and literary studies as well as political thought and philosophy-areas once perceived as the exclusive domain of an organic and hermetically sealed Western tradition. The Black Atlantic @ Twenty symposium (BA@20) aims to explore how Gilroy's insistence that blackness figures as a constitutive element of modernity has effected a lasting transformation in knowledge production. Thursday, October 24 In the wake of The Black Atlantic: Pedagogy and Practice 5:30-7:00pm, Elebash Recital Hall In this roundtable discussion, faculty from various programs at CUNY will ask how their own scholarly practices have been changed by the work of Paul Gilroy and his many students. Specifically, they will examine the ways that Gilroy's anti-nationalist analyses have-or have not-disrupted common practices within traditional disciplines. Drawing on courses taught in a variety of departments in the Fall 2013, Herman Bennett, Jacqueline Brown, Susan Buck-Morss, Kandice Chuh, Duncan Faherty, Sujatha Fernandes, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Robert Reid-Pharr will ask whether it is possible to produce innovative work around race, colonization, cosmopolitanism, and imperialism while also continuing to privilege traditional modes of intellectual inquiry. They will also begin a conversation about how the Graduate Center community might begin to restructure its basic research and pedagogical practices. Friday, October 25 10:00-11:00am: Stephan Palmié, For Reasons of History: Anthropology and the Black Atlantic, The Skylight Room, 9100 11:30am-12:30pm: Tina Campt, Rhizomorphs, Fractals and Other Formalities: A Black Atlantic Mixtape, The Skylight Room, 9100 2:30-3:30pm: Eric Lott, Open Letters, The Skylight Room, 9100 4:00-6:00pm: Paul Gilroy, The Half-Life of the Black Atlantic, Proshansky Auditorium Cosponsored by The Academic Research Collaborative, the Certificate Program in American Studies, the Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar in the Humanities, IRADAC, and the Revolutionizing American Studies Initiative.