EVENT: Nov 10-11 at JHU: THE CHORUS // Saidiya V. Hartman's Trilogy and the Black Feminist Tradition
Event in Baltimore and on zoom
The Chorus: Saidiya V. Hartman's Trilogy and the Black Feminist Tradition
Thursday, November 10, 2022
BLACK FRANCE AND AFRICANA THOUGHT
with Maboula Soumahoro, author of Black is the Journey, Africana the Name (Cambridge, 2022)
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4pm - 6pm EST; 6pm -7pm Reception
Gilman 308/Zoom (email jmj@jhu.edu for the zoom link)
co-sponsored with the JHU European and Black World Seminars
Maboula Soumahoro is an associate professor at the University of Tours and president of the Black History Month Association, dedicated to celebrating Black history and cultures. A specialist in the field of Africana Studies, she has conducted research and taught in several universities and prisons in the United States and France and was most recently the inaugural Villa Albertine Resident in Atlanta. Maboula Soumahoro is the 2022-2023 Mellon Arts Project International Visiting Professor at the African-American and Africana Studies Department of Columbia University as well as Visiting Faculty at Bennington College. Soumahoro is the author of Le Triangle et l'Hexagone: Réflexions sur une identité noire (La Découverte, 2020) which was recently translated into English as Black is the Journey, Africana the Name (Cambridge, 2022, translated by Dr. Kaiama Glover)
Friday, November 11, 2022
A Celebration of the Hartman Trilogy
Johns Hopkins University Glass Pavilion and ZOOM
9 AM EST / DOORS OPEN/WELCOME
Minkah Makalani (Johns Hopkins University) + Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University)
10 AM EST / THE TRILOGY: REFLECTIONS
Scenes of Subjection with Marisa J. Fuentes (Rutgers University) + Lose Your Mother with Jessica Marie Johnson (JHU) + Wayward Lives with Derrais Carter (University of Arizona) + Moderated by Asma Naeem (Baltimore Museum of Art)
JHU GLASS PAVILION (MAP) and on ZOOM: REGISTER FOR ZOOM HERE
4 PM EST: The Chorus Increases: Hartman in Translation
Saidiya V. Hartman (Columbia University) + Maboula Soumahoro (University of Tours) + Robbie Shilliam (Johns Hopkins University)
JHU GLASS PAVILION (MAP) OR REGISTER FOR ZOOM HERE
These events are co-sponsored by the JHU Department of English and the JHU Department of History
Biographies of participants, QR codes, and more information about the event available at http://dslproject.org/the-chorus-hartman
Questions? Contact Rachel LaBozetta at rlaboze1@jhu.edu.