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GENERAL REGISTRATION Black Intersections 2020: Transition, Transform, Transcend
BLACK INTERSECTIONS 2020 IS SATURDAY, FEBURARY 29, 2020 FROM NOON-8:30PM, at POMONA COLLEGE, in CLAREMONT CALIFORNIA
REGISTER HERE to attend the fourth annual Black Intersections Conference: Transition, Transform, Transcend. Southern California's only conference exploring Black identities and experiences!
FREE for students at the seven Claremont Colleges
$20 for Claremont Colleges faculty, staff and alumni
$50 for guests (those not employed or enrolled at The Claremot Colleges).
GROUP RATE: $35/per person for groups of 4 or more.
Onsite registration for general admission is available from noon-2pm at Pomona College Smith Campus Center, Room 208 (see schedule below). Onsite payments must be through this eventbrite site, cash or checks made out to The Claremont Colleges Services.
Hosted by The Office of Black Student Affairs and The Claremont Colleges.
ABOUT
The Office of Black Student Affairs at The Claremont Colleges is excited to announce the fourth annual Black Intersections Conference, a forum to discuss pertinent issues and events impacting Black communities locally and globally in a supportive, culturally engaging environment. The one-day conference is a space for students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members of African descent to share their scholarship and converse around the factors that shape and impact Black identities and lived experiences.
The 2020 Black Intersections Conference is dedicated to the activism past that led to the founding of ethnic studies and cultural centers across the United States, including the founding of The Office of Black Student Affairs and the Intercolleagiate Department of Africana Studies at The Claremont Colleges. After months of negotiations between the 1969 Black Student Union at The Claremont Colleges and the institutions’ presidents, the departments we now know as OBSA, CLSA, IDAS and IDCLS were founded. The landmark institutional shift toward consciously creating space for marginalized students and their academic and cultural contributions refers to the many ways people of African descent have been catalysts for institutional change
The Black Intersections Conference is a community space that supports learning and dialogue, and so it is with great pleasure that we invite panels and workshops that speak to this year’s conference subthemes, “Transition, Transform, Transcend” in education, history, the sciences, media, love and sexuality, (dis)abilities studies, self-care, solidarity and other engaging areas. This year’s conference theme is also dedicated to explorations of resistance, freedom and self-care, particularly for those involved in the pursuit of equality. Following a series of concurrent workshops and presentations, the daylong conference will close with the keynote performance and talk back: NIC Kay Pushit! [exercise in getting well soon], at Pomona College Museum of Art.
Conference Schedule
CHECK IN & STUDENT ART GALLERY
12-1:15pm Pomona Smith Campus Center (SCC) 208 for Conference Check in, Onsite Registration, Luncheon and Student Art Gallery. Check in and Registration continue in the SCC 2nd floor walkway through 2pm.
CONCURRENT SESSIONS (up to 3 panels or workshops occurring during the same time slot)
1:20-2:10pm in SCC Room 217: SESSION A “The Uses and Abuses of Blackness and Queerness” | in SCC Room 218: SESSION B “Conversations from the Couch: Opening Doors in the Arts”
2:15-3:05pm in SCC Room 208: SESSION C “Africa: Inter-Continental Transformation and Solidarity” | in SCC Room 217: SESSION D “Word Play: Blackness and Linguistics“
3:10-4:00pm in SCC Room 208: SESSION E “Black Bodies, White World” | in SCC Room 217: SESSION F “Deconstructing Anti-Black Ideologies” | in SCC Room 218: SESSION G “Transgressing Limits: Academia and Ontology”
4:05-4:55pm in SCC Room 208: SESSION H “Black Community at The Claremont Colleges and Abroad” | in SCC Room 217: SESSION I “African American influence On Early Jamaican Music”
BREAK
4:55pm-5:15pm Break. Reconvene at front of SCC (on 6th street) for keynote performance.
KEYNOTE PERFORMANCE
5:15-6pm at 6th st entrance of SCC. Participants join the Nic KAY walking exhibit and travel to Pomona Museum of Art for remainder of performance.
6pm at Pomona College Museum of Art: Discussion with Pomona College Professor of English Valorie D. Thomas: “NIC Kay’s Get Well Soon Project: Between Performance and Performativity”
CLOSING CONFERENCE DINNER
7-8pm SCC Doms Lounge. Note that dinner is immediately following the performance and may begin slightly before or after 7pm.
