• 9:30am 10:00am
    Bagels and coffee available, Butler Library 522
  • 10:00am 12:00pm
    Harlem Renaissance Aesthetics Panel, Butler Library 523

    David Gilbert, “Ragging Uplift: Toward New Understandings of Class, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Respectability in Black Manhattan”
    Marina Magloire, “Primitive Decadence: Sartorial Maronnage in O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones and Larsen’s Quicksand”
    Horace Ballard, “Twin Cities: Harlem, Weimar, and the Aesthetics of German Idealism”
    Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, “Harlem Toile/Harlem Style: Competing Tastes of the New Negro Era”

    Moderator: Lucy Caplan

  • 12:00pm 1:00pm
    Lunch, Butler Library 522
  • 1:30pm 3:30pm
    Harlem Renaissance Theater Panel, Butler Library 523

    Nathaniel Nesmith, “Willis Richardson: Racial Uplift and Theatre during the Harlem Renaissance”
    Erica Richardson, “The Performance of Sociological Aesthetics in Harlem Renaissance Lynching Plays”
    Rosa Schneider, “Restaging the Caribbean: Eugene O'Neill, The Emperor Jones
    and Haiti”
    Katherine Biers, “Reading the Bone: Animism and Voodoo in Harlem Renaissance Theatre”

    Moderator: Sam Ng

  • 3:30pm 3:45pm
    Coffee break, Butler Library 522
  • 3:45pm 5:00pm
    Artists’ round table, Butler Library 523

    Moderator: Albert R. Lee

    Panelists TBD

  • 5:00pm 5:05pm
    Closing remarks
  • 5:15pm 6:45pm
    Dinner for conference presenters, Lewisohn Hall 602
  • 7:00pm 10:00pm
    Performance of Voodoo, Miller Theatre

    Tickets to the opera are available to purchase at http://voodoo.brownpapertickets.com.