RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS, ETC.
(last updated: 9/29/96)
- The NYU Africana Studies program sponsored a conference
entitled "Finding Fanon: Critical Genealogies",held
at Tishman Auditorium at Vanderbilt Hall at NYU on Oct 11-12,
1996. Isaac Julien screened his film "Black
Skin, White Mask" at 7:30 pm on Friday Oct. 11th. Panel
discussions on Friday the 11th and Saturday the 12th included:
Francoise Verges, Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Hall, Kobena Mercer,
and Ella Shohat.
- La
Maison Francaise at Columbia University (Buell
Hall, Broadway at 116th Street) held a colloquium on November
10th and 11th, 1996. The title of the event is
Paris-New
York: Migrations of Identities and featured talks by
Maryse Conde, Manning Marable, Phillippe Dewitte, Henry Louis
Gates Jr. and Manthia Diawara.
- Prof. Diawara was involved in Modern Days, Ancient
Nights: The Third New York African Film Festival, taking
place at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center and The Brooklyn
Museum from April 12 - June 2, 1996. For more information on
the festival's panel discussions, click here.
- Manthia Diawara appears in the film The
Watermelon Woman, directed by Cheryl Dunye ("She
Don't Fade"). The film was recently screened at the Berlin
International Film Festival and at the Sager Symposium at Swarthmore
College.
- Diawara edited a revised version of Black
British Cultural Studies, This edition is part of the
Black Literature and Culture Series from the University
of Chicago Press, and is also edited by Houston A. Baker,
Jr., Ruth H Lindeborg. This volume will include a reprinting
of Diawara's "Black British Cinema: Spectatorship and Identity
Formation in Territories", as well as "The Art
of Identity: A Conversation", which features a conversation
between Diawara and Sonia Boyce. (originally printed in Transition
)
- The NYU Africana Studies Department has launched Black
Renaissance / Renaissance Noire in 1996. The journal
will be edited by Diawara.The journal will be published three
times a year by Indiana
University Press For information about the journal, including
contributors and forthcoming issues,
click here.
- The first issue of the journal will include an essay
by Prof. Diawara entitled Pan-Africanism
and Pedagogy. This paper was presented as part of the
the 1996
Richard Wright Lectures at The
Center For The Study Of Black Literature And Culture at the
University of Pennsylvania. Click here
to read the full essay.
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