October 19-20, 2006
Brooklyn College
October 21, 2006
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Reading Room
6:00-8:00PM |
This conference is designed to restore to the cultural repository the record of and critical response to Larry Neal (1937-1981), poet, playwright, and essayist whose moral vision, intellectual independence, activism and scholarly integrity remain a model and inspiration for future achievement. The presentations will bridge a substantial gap in the current scholarship on the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s by documenting the centrality of Neal as a founding theorist of black American cultural studies. Neal's commitment to creativity and activism provides an ealy model for critical interdisciplinarity, attesting to the interrelated nature of music, drama, literature and folklore.
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Conference Overview
Keynote Address
Participants
Program Agenda
Directions
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| Keynote Address: |
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Kimberly W. Benston
Francis B. Gummere
Professor of English
Haverford College |
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| Participants: |
Evelyn Neal,
New York City |
Margo Natalie Crawford,
Indiana University |
George P. Cunningham,
Brooklyn College (CUNY) |
William J. Harris,
University of Kansas |
Mae G. Henderson,
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill |
Carter A. Mathes,
Rutgers University |
Aldon L. Nielsen,
Pennsylvania State University |
Amy Abugo Ongiri,
University of Florida |
Esiaba Irobi,
Ohio University |
Howard Rambsy II,
Southern Illinois University,
Edwardsville |
Craig A. Schiffert,
Howard University |
Mike Sell,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
James Smethurst,
University of Massachusetts |
David Lionel Smith,
Williams College |
W.S. Tkweme,
University of Louisville |
Eleanor Traylor,
Howard University |
Frederick Vincent,
University of California, Berkeley |
Salim Washington,
Brooklyn College (CUNY) |
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