REGISTRATION FORM: BLACK WOMANHOOD SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Science Center 277, 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
The Davis Museum and Cultural Center will host a symposium in conjunction with the exhibition, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. Scholars and artists will discuss cultural identity, aesthetics, politics, and religion in relation to the broad themes of the exhibition. Sessions will include perspectives by scholars from the areas of sociology, Africana studies— including the religions of Africa and the African Diaspora—as well as artists, art historians, and curators of visual arts and film.
Chairing the symposium from Wellesley College are Professor Filomina Steady and Assistant Professor Pashington Obeng, Africana Studies Department. The discussant is Visiting Instructor Genevieve Hyacinthe, Art Department. Speakers include Abena P.A. Busia, English Department, Rutgers University; artist Renée Cox, New York; Beti Ellerson, Center for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema, Washington, D.C.; Professor Stanlie M. James, Director of African & African American Studies Program, Arizona State University; Professor Oyeronke Oyewumi, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York; and Black Womanhoodexhibition curator Barbara Thompson, the Phyllis Wattis Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University.
Following the symposium, artists Magdalena Campos-Pons and Dineo Bopape will perform at the museum.
No Fee. Limited Seating. Registration Required.
Schedule for Saturday October 18
9:30am - 9:45am
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Welcome by Dennis McFadden, Acting Director, Davis Museum and Cultural Center
Introductions by Filomina Steady, Professor, Africana Studies, Wellesley College |
9:45am - 12:00
9:45am - 10:15am
10:15am - 10:45am
10:45am - 11:15am
11:15am - 11:25am
11:25am - 12:00
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SESSION I: Chaired by Filomina Steady
Oyeronke Oyewumi, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University:
“Beyond Gendercentric Models: In Praise of Mother the Ultimate Artist”
Stanlie M. James, Director, African & African American Studies Program, Arizona State University: “Hidden in Plain Sight: Black Women's Struggles for Bodily Integrity”
Barbara Thompson, Phyllis Wattis Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, and curator of Black Womanhood: “Moving On and Beyond Black Womanhood”
Performance by Artist Willie Baracchi
Discussion and Questions with Respondent Genevieve Hyacinthe, Davis Museum and Art Department, Wellesley College |
| 12:00 - 1:15pm |
Break for lunch |
1:15pm
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Performances by Artists Alexia Mellor, Krista Caballero, Melinda Go at the Davis Museum |
| 1:30pm - 2:00pm |
Tour of Black Womanhood by curator Barbara Thompson |
2:15pm - 5:30pm
2:15pm - 2:30pm
2:30pm - 3:00pm
3:00pm - 3:30pm
3:30pm - 4:00pm
4:00pm - 4:30pm
4:30pm - 4:35pm
4:35pm - 5:20pm
5:20pm - 5:30pm
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SESSION II, Chaired by Pashington Obeng
Introductions by Pashington Obeng, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies, Wellesley College
Renée Cox, Artist, New York: “Renée Cox: The Work”
Abena P.A. Busia, Associate Professor, English Department, Rutgers University: “The Many Lives of Sarah Bartman”
Beti Ellerson, Director, Center for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema, Washington, D.C.: “Mothers, Daughters, Co-Wives and Friends: Reflections on the Complexities of Female Relationships in African Films”
Discussion and questions with respondent Genevieve Hyacinthe
Performance by Artist Raneem Farsi
Panel: Wellesley African Students Association: “Traditions, Taboos and Sexuality: Challenging, Defining and Comprehending Notions of African Womanhood”
Wrap-up, Genevieve Hyacinthe
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Following the symposium, performances by artists Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
and Dineo Bopape will be held in the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at 6:00pm (NEW TIME).
The Davis Museum galleries will be open until 7:00 pm on Saturday.
Black Womanhood the exhibition looks at the historical roots of a charged icon in contemporary art: the black female body. The exhibition’s premise is that only through an examination of the origins of the prevalent stereotypes of black womanhood can we begin to shed new light on the powerful revision occupying contemporary artists working with these themes today. About one hundred sculptures, prints, postcards, photographs, paintings, textiles, and video installations are presented in thematic sections representing traditional African, Western colonial, and contemporary global perspectives on the black female body.
This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, and is generously funded by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Davis Museum presentation and programs for Black Womanhood are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, William T. Kemper Foundation, Mary Tebbetts Wolfe '54 Program Endowment, Davis Museum Program Endowment, Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Kathryn Wasserman Davis '28 Fund for World Cultures and Leadership, and Wellesley College Friends of Art.
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