PROGRAM
Philosophy and Religion in Africana Traditions 2021
8th Annual Conference
Afrofuturism and Critical Black Futures
Friday October 22nd, 2021 Virtual Conference 11am – 6pm EST
Virtual conference. Register here.
11am – 11:30am
Greetings and opening statement: – J. Everet Green, Mercy College
Greetings: Dr. Mary Taylor – CUNY The Graduate Center
11:30am – 12:30pm
Speaker: Damion Scott, CCNY, CUNY and Stony Brook University
Topic: “Some Distinctions between Afrofuturism and Black Futurism”
Chair: Dr, Brittany O’Neal -Lehman College
12:30pm -1:15pm
Speaker: Joy Sanchez-Taylor, LaGuardia Community College
Topic:”Orishas in Fantasy Literature and Popular Culture.”
Chair: Brittany O’Neal, CUNY–Lehman College
1:15pm-2:30pm
Speaker: Erik Steinskog, University of Copenhagen
Topic: “Afrofuturism and the Sound of the Future”
2:30pm – 3:30pm
Speaker: Philip Butler, Iliff School of Theology
Topic: “Blackness and/in the Age of Hyper-Exponentiation”
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Speaker: Raissa Simpson, Stanford University, San Jose State University
Topic: “The Mechanization of Dance”
4:30pm -5:30pm
Speaker: Lily Luo, University of Connecticut
Topic: “To Whom Does the Future Belong? Techno-Orientalism Tian Xia, and Afrofuturism”
5:30pm- 6pm
Q&A
Closing Statements from J. Everet Green
Saturday October 23rd, 2021 11am – 6pm EST
11:00am – 11:30am
Greetings and opening statement: – J. Everet Green, Mercy College
11:30am – 12:30pm
Speaker: Bailey Thomas, University of Louisville
Topic: “Epistemic Ignorance and Race”
12:30pm -1:30pm
Speaker: Reynaldo Anderson, Temple University
Topic: “Afrofuturism 2.0 and the Black Speculative Arts Movements”
1:30pm -3:00pm
Speakers: Speakers: Mark Dery (Independent Scholar), Reynaldo Anderson (Temple), Damion Scott (CCNY) and tobias van veen (Quest University)
Topic: “Competing Definitions of Afrofuturism”
Chair: Brittany O’Neal
3:00pm – 4:15pm
Student Panel
Jennifer Chapin- CUNY Graduate Center
Paul Ambrose -Lehman College
Mellock Mozeb- Lehman College
Morgan Van Putten- Lehman College
Christopher Wu – Hunter
Topic: General CBF and AF
4:15pm – 5:00pm
Speaker: Brittany O’Neal -Lehman College
Topic: “Axiology and the Black Intellectual Tradition: An examination of Joyce Mitchell Cook and Charles W. Mills”
5:00pm-6:00pm
Q&A and a special remembrance of the life of Professor Charles Mills
Closing Statements from J. Everet Green
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