Abolition Symposium

DAY 1: Friday, 11 April 8:00 Coffee Break 8:30 Welcome  Laurie Beth Clark and Jill Casid 9:00 Workshop 1: Seeding Sanctuary (In Person Only) Jenna Loyd Annie Menzel Rachel Kuo 9:00 Performance Studies international Constellate Session (Zoom Only) A conversation about Performance Studies and Abolition Moderator: Michael Peterson Interlocutors: Anna Kimmel Dominika Laster James McMaster Jazmin Llana Jisha Menon SAJ 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Keynote 1: Spectacle Border Abolition Jenna Loyd Respondent: Keith Woodward 12:30 Lunch 1:30 Keynote 2: Null and Void: Racial Capitalism and Black Art in the Historical Present Che Gossett Respondent: Kristina Huang *Please note that this lecture will be presented on Zoom.  Audience members will have the option to watch in the lecture hall or on personal devices. 3:00 Coffee Break 3:30 Workshop 2: Transtemporal Joywork: Echoing into the Future (In Person Only) Jen Rae Syrus Marcus Ware Dawn Weleski 3:30 Performance Studies international Constellate Session (Zoom Only) A conversation about Performance Studies and Abolition Moderator: Michael Peterson Interlocutors: Anna Kimmel Ben Spatz Dominika Laster James McMaster Jazmin Llana 5:00 Film: Lessons of the Hour by Isaac Julien This content is related to Keynote 3: Jennifer González.   DAY 2: Saturday 12 April 8:00 Coffee Break 8:30 Workshop 3: AH802 “Topics in Visual Cultures” Moderator: Laurie Beth Clark Presenters: Jason Q Han Kean O’Brien Addison McDaniel Q&A Elijah Nicks Abubakar Muhammad Ian Danner Q&A Anju Kinoshita Hyorim Joe Shruthi Menon Q&A 11:00 Coffee Break 11:30  Keynote 3: Lessons of The Hour: Isaac Julien’s Time Travel* Jennifer González Respondent: Guillermina De Ferrari *The film Lessons of The Hour by Isaac Julien will be screened on April 11, 5 PM at Pyle Center Room 121. 1:00 Lunch 2:00 Keynote 4: Grief in the Dark Kimberly Juanita Brown Respondent: Matthew Brown *Please note that this lecture will be presented on Zoom.  Audience members will have the option to watch in the lecture hall or on personal devices. 3:30 Coffee Break 4:00 Conference Wrap Up: Roundtable on Abolition Now Moderator: Jill Casid Panelists: Dawn Weleski Jenna Loyd Jennifer González Laurie Beth Clark Michael Peterson 5:30 Reception