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
This conference is sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center and HUMANITAS: The Africana Ethical and Cultural Society. It is free and open to the public.