Afrofuturism and Africana Intellectual Traditions: 8th Annual PRAT Conference
Program
Friday October 22nd, 2021 Virtual Conference 11am – 6pm EST
11am – 11:30amGreetings and opening statement: – J. Everet Green, Mercy CollegeGreetings: Dr. Mary Taylor – CUNY The Graduate Center
11:30am – 12:30pmSpeaker: Damion Scott, CCNY, CUNY and Stony Brook UniversityTopic: “Some Distinctions between Afrofuturism and Black Futurism”Chair: Dr, Brittany O’Neal -Lehman College
12:30pm -1:15pmSpeaker: Joy Sanchez-Taylor, LaGuardia Community CollegeTopic:”Orishas in Fantasy Literature and Popular Culture.”Chair: Brittany O’Neal, CUNY–Lehman College
1:15pm-2:30pmSpeaker: Erik Steinskog, University of CopenhagenTopic: “Afrofuturism and the Sound of the Future”
2:30pm – 3:30pmSpeaker: Philip Butler, Iliff School of TheologyTopic: “Blackness and/in the Age of Hyper-Exponentiation”
3:30pm – 4:30pmSpeaker: Raissa Simpson, Stanford University, San Jose State UniversityTopic: “The Mechanization of Dance”
4:30pm -5:30pmSpeaker: Lily Luo, University of ConnecticutTopic: “To Whom Does the Future Belong? Techno-Orientalism Tian Xia, and Afrofuturism”
5:30pm- 6pmQ&A
Closing Statements from J. Everet Green
Saturday October 23rd, 2021 11am – 6pm EST
11:00am – 11:30amGreetings and opening statement: – J. Everet Green, Mercy College
11:30am – 12:30pmSpeaker: Bailey Thomas, University of LouisvilleTopic: “Epistemic Ignorance and Race”
12:30pm -1:30pmSpeaker: Reynaldo Anderson, Temple UniversityTopic: “Afrofuturism 2.0 and the Black Speculative Arts Movements”
1:30pm -3:00pmSpeakers: 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 – 4:15pmStudent 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 – 5:00pmSpeaker: Brittany O’Neal -Lehman CollegeTopic: “Axiology and the Black Intellectual Tradition: An examination of Joyce Mitchell Cook and Charles W. Mills”
5:00pm-6:00pmQ&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.
