The Institute for the Study of the Americas in conjunction with the Centre
for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies, is pleased to invite
you to the following conference (please see below for the provisional
programme and details of how to register):
CONFERENCE: INTERNATIONALISING BLACK POWER
INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAS
25-26TH OCTOBER 2007
Convenors: Institute for the Study of the Americas / Centre for Caribbean
Thought, University of the West Indies (Mona).
The organisers would like to thank the British Academy for their support of
this conference, which is funded through the UK-Latin America and Caribbean
Link Programme.
Until recently, scholarship on Black Power has been ‘elusive’ and
fragmentary, with such studies as do exist focused primarily on the domestic
North American context in which the banner of Black Power was first raised.
Yet the story of Black Power – in its multiple manifestations – was played
out on a global stage, stretching from Mississippi and Washington, London
and Kingston, Havana and Algiers, to as far east as Hanoi and Beijing. The
global dimensions of the Black Power era are just beginning to receive
sustained attention, challenging the narrow and ‘peculiarly [North] American
stories of domestic racial dissent’ (Peniel Joseph). Bringing together
scholars from the Caribbean, North America and the UK, this conference seeks
to contribute to an understanding of the international dimensions of Black
Power, emphasising both the local specificities of Black Power movements
(notably in the Caribbean) and the trans-national processes of intellectual
and cultural exchange that were central to the development of radical black
movements and ideologies in the late twentieth century.
The conference in London is the first of two conferences on
Internationalising Black Power funded by the British Academy. The second
conference in the series will be held in Kingston, Jamaica, 22nd-23rd
February 2008.
Speakers:
Richard Drayton, Cambridge University
Kevin Gaines, Michigan
Simon Hall, Leeds
Peniel Joseph, Brandeis University
Nicole King, Royal Holloway
Rupert Lewis, University of the West Indies (Mona)
Brian Meeks, University of the West Indies (Mona)
James Miller, King’s College London
Assmaa Naguib, American University Cairo
Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary
Robyn Spencer, CUNY
Kimberly Springer, King’s College London
Joe Street, University of Kent
Kate Quinn, Institute for the Study of the Americas
Leon Wainwright, Manchester Metropolitan
Russell White, Solent
Registration: £10/£5 students
To register download the form from
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/blackpower.php and send it to Olga Jimenez:
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Enquiries: Kate Quinn: [log in to unmask]
Programme
Thursday 25 October
Venue: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 35 Tavistock Square, London
10.00-10.15 Welcome and Introduction
James Dunkerley, Institute for the Study of the Americas
Kate Quinn, Institute for the Study of the Americas
10.15 – 11.15 Keynote address: Brian Meeks, University of the West Indies
(Mona)
“Caribbean Black Power after Forty Years”
11.15-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1.00 PANEL ONE: RETHINKING BLACK POWER
Peniel Joseph, “An Unchronicled Epic: Rethinking the Black Power Movement”
Kimberley Springer, “Huey P Newton and Michael X: the case for studying
masculinity in Black Power Studies
Kate Quinn, “Culture Clash? US Black Power in the Caribbean”
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 PANEL TWO: BEYOND BORDERS (I)
Simon Hall, “Black Power and Vietnam”
Assmaa Naguib, “Malcolm X in an international context: an evaluation of
Malcolm's relationship with President Nasser”
Richard Drayton, “Secondary Decolonization in Barbados: The Black Power
Moment in Barbados c. 1970”
3.30-4.00 Coffee
4.00-5.00 Keynote address: Kevin Gaines, University of Michigan
“American Africans in Ghana: Afro-American Radicalism during the 1960s”
5.00 Reception
Friday 26 October
Venue: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 35 Tavistock Square, London
10.00-11.00 – Keynote address: Robyn Spencer, Lehman College, CUNY
“Hidden in Plain Sight: Black Women and the Politics of Black Power”
11.00-11.30 – Coffee
11.30-1.00 – PANEL THREE: BEYOND BORDERS (II)
James Miller, “‘A New History of Man’: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the
Earth and American Black Power”
Bill Schwarz, “Stokely Carmichael in London”
Leon Wainwright, “New Provincialisms: Art and Visual Culture of the African
Diaspora”
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 – PANEL FOUR: BLACK POWER, CULTURE & THE ARTS
Joe Street, “The Black Panther Party’s Cultural Front”
Nicole King, “Uses of the Literary: Black Power and its Fictional
Representations”
Russell White, “Contrasting models of black nationalism: Public Enemy and
the Wu Tang Clan”
3.30-4.00 – Coffee
4.00-5.00 – Closing Keynote: Rupert Lewis, University of the West Indies
(Mona)
“Black Power: Engaging Plantation Legacies & Urban Realities”
7.00 Dinner (speakers)
Tas, 22 Bloomsbury St, Bloomsbury
Kate Quinn
Institute for the Study of the Americas
31 Tavistock Square
London WC1H 9HA
Tel: (0044) 20 78628974
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