Across Oceans and Hemispheres: The Career of Henry J. Drewal

10:30 a.m.
Fabric of Immortality: Ancestral Power, Performance and Agency in Egungun Artistry
Bolaji Campbell
Professor of African & African Diaspora Art
Rhode Island School of Design

10:40 a.m.
Old Spaces, New Narratives: Jelili Atiku at the Venice Biennale
Janine Sytsma
Assistant Professor of Art History
University of Arkansas

10:50 a.m.
This Otherworldliness in Worldly Objects
Fernanda Villarroel
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Art History
University of Wisconsin–Madison

11 a.m.
Áyàkàtà: AfroBeat Art and Aesthetics
Moyo Okediji
Professor of African Art
University of Texas–Austin

11:10 a.m.
Sense-ational Steel
Susan Curtis
Independent Scholar

11:20–11:45 a.m.
Discussion

11:45 a.m.–12:50 p.m.
Lunch

1 p.m.
Azande and Mangbetu Artists as Social Critics in the Belgian Congo 1909–1915
Nancy Pauly
Associate Professor in the Art Education Program
University of New Mexico–Albuquerque

1:10 p.m.
Gender, Interrupted: Mining Histories in Photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee
Shannen Hill
Docent and VIS Coordinator
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

1:20 p.m.
People First: African Art and Humanity with HJD
Nichole Bridges
Associate Curator for African Art, Associate Curator in Charge, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
St. Louis Art Museum

1:30 p.m.
Dancing Bodies, Moving Objects
Cynthia Becker
Associate Professor of African Art History
Boston University

1:40 p.m.
Dressed with Knowledge: Hausa Textiles and Calligraphy
Michelle Craig
Lead Faculty in Art History
Cuesta College

1:50–2:15 p.m.
Discussion

2:20 p.m.
Embodied Reminiscences Revisited (@Aniakor)
Andrea Frohne
Director
School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Associate Professor, School of Art + Design
Ohio University

2:30 p.m.
Henry Drewal as Spiritual Force: Life in the Drewal Diaspora
Kim Miller
Jane Oxford Keiter ‘64 Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and History of Art and Program Coordinator
Women’s & Gender Studies
Wheaton College

2:40 p.m.
Absence as Presence: Sensing the Body in Female Initiations among the Shambaa of Northeastern Tanzania
Marguerite E. Heckscher
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Art History
University of Wisconsin–Madison

2:50 p.m.
Empty Handed, but Not Empty Headed
Matthew Rarey
Assistant Professor of Art History
Oberlin College

3–3:25 p.m.
Discussion

3:30 p.m.
The Heroic Narrative and the Aesthetics of Blackness
Cheryl Sterling
Associate Professor of English and
Program Head in African Studies
Pennsylvania State University

3:40 p.m.
Where Africa Meets the Americas: From West Africa to Brazil, Haiti, and Mexico
Ray Hernandez
Professor
Spanish Colonial Art and Architecture, Arts of Nineteenth-Century Mexico, and Museum Studies
University of New Mexico–Albuquerque

3:50 p.m.
Speaking into Being: African Influences in the Art of Elizabeth Catlett
Melanie Herzog
Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Art History
Edgewood College

4 p.m.
Sacred Art of the Lukumi
Sauda Smith
Independent Researcher

4:10–4:35 p.m.
Discussion