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
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
Moderator: Albert R. Lee
Panelists TBD
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