Race:Embodying Academia
University at Albany 17th Annual EGSO Conference
April 4-6, 2019
University at Albany’s 17th annual English Graduate Student Organization Conference
Race: Embodying Academia
April 5-6, 2019
Friday, April 5, 2019
3:30-4:00—Registration
4:00-4:30—Opening Address
4:30-5:50--Race in Public Discourse (Moderator: Carissa Halston)
8:00—Conference Dinner, Barcelona Restaurant
Saturday, April 6, 2019
9:00-9:30—Coffee
9:30-10:50--The Constitution (and Care) of the Racialized Self (Moderator: Kevin Kilroy)
Gene Andrew Jarrett
Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science, New York University
12:30-1:30—Lunch
1:30-2:50--Separate but Equal: Indigenous and Enslaved Identities (Moderator: Professor Helene Scheck)
June Gehringer, author of I Don't Write about Race
4:00-4:50—Closing Roundtable
Nazia Manzoor (Moderator), Professor Erica Fretwell (UAlbany), Eugene Pae (UAlbany)
~Conference Committee:
Nazia Manzoor, Chair
Audrey Peterson-McCann, Secretary
Andrew Brooks, Treasurer.
~Event sponsored by: The English Department, GSA & UAS
University at Albany 17th Annual EGSO Conference
April 4-6, 2019
University at Albany’s 17th annual English Graduate Student Organization Conference
Race: Embodying Academia
April 5-6, 2019
Friday, April 5, 2019
3:30-4:00—Registration
4:00-4:30—Opening Address
4:30-5:50--Race in Public Discourse (Moderator: Carissa Halston)
- Kirk Maynard (New Jersey City University): “The ‘RED’ Project: Exploring Housing Discrimination in America”
- Shelby Mack (UAlbany): “Semenya, Serena, and Sharapova"
- Andrew Cutrone (UAlbany): “Getting Serious With Stand-Up Comedy: Power, Stand-up Comedy, and American Public Life"
8:00—Conference Dinner, Barcelona Restaurant
Saturday, April 6, 2019
9:00-9:30—Coffee
9:30-10:50--The Constitution (and Care) of the Racialized Self (Moderator: Kevin Kilroy)
- Paulna Valbrun (University of New Hampshire): "Chaos"
- Jennifer K. Chukwu (Brown University).: “The 8th House"
- Sarah Chamberlain; Emily Cotton, Ijeoma Njaka; and Noah Martin, (Georgetown University): “Exploring Domains of “Diversity” In Higher Education through Visual Conceptual Learning Maps”
Gene Andrew Jarrett
Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science, New York University
12:30-1:30—Lunch
1:30-2:50--Separate but Equal: Indigenous and Enslaved Identities (Moderator: Professor Helene Scheck)
- Simon Kostelanetz (CUNY): “Academia is Racist: Synthesizing Lewis Gordon’s idea of Disciplinary Decadence with Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies"
- Eugene Pae (UAlbany): “Ursa’s Blues, “A New World Song”: Matrilineal Trauma and Individual Selfhood in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora".
- Kasey Waite (UAlbany): “Pity Me and Pardon Me, O Virtuous Reader!” –The Rhetoric of Abolitionist Action in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”
June Gehringer, author of I Don't Write about Race
4:00-4:50—Closing Roundtable
Nazia Manzoor (Moderator), Professor Erica Fretwell (UAlbany), Eugene Pae (UAlbany)
~Conference Committee:
Nazia Manzoor, Chair
Audrey Peterson-McCann, Secretary
Andrew Brooks, Treasurer.
~Event sponsored by: The English Department, GSA & UAS
