Schedule
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Howard University Blackburn Center
9:30 am
Registration
Moderator: GWENDOLYN EVERETT, Howard University
10:00 am
OPENING REMARKS
TRITOBIA HAYES BENJAMIN, Division of Fine Arts, Howard University
CONI PORTER UZELAC, Wesport Foundation
10:30am
OPENING LECTURE | The Contemporary Artworld
HUEY COPELAND, Northwestern University
Q&A
11:30am-12:15
PANEL | Venice Biennale, Sao Paolo, Festac: Artists’ Perspectives I
Q&A
12:20–1:30pm
Lunch
1:40–3:30pm
PANEL | International Venues and Discourses: Broadening the Base of Receptive and Interpretative Communities
Q&A
4:00–5:00pm
Travel to Opening Reception and Driskell Center Lecture
5:00pm
Opening Reception
6:00pm
Seventh Annual David C. Driskell Center Lecture
University of Maryland at College Park
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Howard University Blackburn Center
9:00am
Registration
9:40am
HORACE G. DAWSON, JR., Director, Ralph Bunche Center, Howard University
10:00–11:45am
PANEL | 'International Platforms'—Paradigm Shifting Venues
Q&A
12:00–1:30pm
Lunch
1:40-2:40pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
KOBENA MERCER, Middlesex University, UK
Q&A
3:00–5:00pm
PANEL | Reformulations: New Challenges, New Models
Q&A
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Howard University Blackburn Center
9:30am
Registration
10:20-11:45am
LECTURE
FRANKLIN SIRMANS, DeMenil Foundation
Q&A
12:00–1:30pm
Lunch
1:40–3:00pm
PANEL | Venice Biennale, Documenta, Dak’06): Artists’ Perspectives II
Q&A
3:15–4:30pm
ROUNDTABLE II |
African American And Art Of The African Diaspora: Artist-Scholar Perspectives
Moderator: TERESIA BUSH, Howard University
Participants:
RICHARD A. LONG; LESLIE KING HAMMOND, Maryland Institute College of Art; KINSHASHA HOLMAN CONWILL, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, GWENDOLYN EVERETT, Howard University
6:00-11:00pm
BENEFIT GALA
Award Presentation and Tributes to Honorees
Music
2008 Colloquium
This year’s presentation of the Howard University Department of Art’s James A. Porter Colloquium is presented in conjunction with the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora and the Howard University Gallery of Art.
Admission to all Colloquium sessions and lectures is free and open to the public. |
