11:00 - 11:45am

Registration

12:00 - 1:45pm

Opening Ceremonies

George P. Cunningham, Department of African Studies,
          Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Opening Remarks

Christopher Kimmich, President, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Welcome

Carter A. Mathes, Department of English,

Rutgers University

Prolegomenon

Mae G. Henderson, Department of English & Comparative Literature,
           University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Larry Neal and the Black Aesthetic "

2:00 - 3:45pm

Performing Poetics: Larry Neal's Aesthetic and Metaphysical Universe

Moderator: Dale Byam, Department of Theater, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Aldon L. Nielson, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University

"Bee Bop Ghost in the Machine"

Mike Sell, Department of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

“Speaking to Poppa Stoppa: Ghosts and Performances in Larry Neal's Theory of Blackness”

David Lionel Smith, Department of English, Williams College

“Larry Neal’s Aesthetic Phantoms”

4:00 - 5:45pm

Liberating Music: Larry Neal’s Soundscape of Revolutionary Cultural Production

Moderator: Jeffrey J. Taylor, Institute for Studies in American Music and

Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Amy Abugo Ongiri, Department of English, University of Florida

“Hoodo[o] Hollerin’ Bebop Ghosts: Jazz Culture in the Work of Larry Neal”

W.S. Tkweme, Department of Pan-African Studies, University of Louisville

“Black Boogaloo and Bebop Ghosts”

Frederick Vincent, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of

California, Berkeley

"Suppose James Brown read Fanon’: Revolutionary Nationalism and the Funk of the Black Panthers"

6:00 - 8:00pm

Dinner and Keynote Address

(for registered participants)

Kimberly W. Benston, Department of English, Haverford College

“‘Don’t Say Goodbye to the Pork-Pie Hat’: Larry Neal, Past and Future”

10:00 - 10:45am

Continental Breakfast

11:00am - 12:30pm

Shine On:  Black Arts, Political Innovation and Black Cultural Tradition

Moderator: James Davis, Department of English, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

William J. Harris, Department of English, University of Kansas

“Larry Neal’s Folkloric Frame of Mind”

Howard Rambsy II, Department of English, Southern Illinois University

Edwardsville

“Checking Out Style: Larry Neal’s Recovery of Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison”

12:45 - 1:45pm

Lunch

2:00 - 3:45pm

Radical Motives of Music: Neal Sounds Out the Political

Moderator: Marcellus Blount, English and Comparative Literature,

Columbia University

Margo Natalie Crawford, English Department, Indiana University

“The Rhythm and Swing of Larry Neal’s Post-Double Consciousness Dream”

Salim Washington, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

"The Glorious Monster in the Bell of a Horn: Musical Visions of Struggle and Freedom in Larry Neal's Black Aesthetic"

Carter A. Mathes, Department of English, Rutgers University

“Sounds of Liberation: The Aesthetic Contours of Neal’s Black Radical Critique”

4:00 - 5:45pm

Institutional Foundations, Philosophical Expansions

Moderator: Regine Latortue, Department of Africana Studies,

Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Esiaba Irobi, International Theatre/Performance Studies, Ohio University

“Who is Afraid of Larry Neal?”

James Smethurst, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of

Massachusetts

“Larry Neal, the Muntu Circle, and Black Arts Ideology”

Craig A. Schiffert, Department of History, Howard University

“New Research and a Reappraisal: Larry Neal’s Co-founding of the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School (Harlem, 1965)"

6:00 - 7:45pm

Closing Ceremonies

George P. Cunningham, Chairperson, Africana Studies, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Closing Remarks

Eleanor Traylor, Chairperson, Department of English, Howard University

Reflections

Mae G. Henderson, Department of English & Comparative Literature,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Specters of Larry Neal

Carter A. Mathes, Department of English, Rutgers University

Prospectives