Schedule
February 19-22, 2020
Planet Deep South ATL2020
“Digital Humanities, Speculative Cultural Production and Africanisms in the American and Global South”
Planet Deep South is an interdisciplinary conference open to all scholars, artists, and students who explore the intellectual and creative expression of African people through a series of presentations and panel discussions designed to inspire the inquiry of Africana cultural production through a digital, historical and speculative lens.
Day One - Wednesday, February 19:
AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library-Exhibition Hall
111 James P. Brawley Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30314
8:30am – 9:30am - Registration (Coffee, Tea, Pastries provided)
9:30am – 9:50am - Welcome (opening remarks/logistics) Rico Chapman and Clint Fluker
10:00am-11:15am - Session I - Opening Plenary- Towards an Afrofuturist Studies: Aims & Approaches in Black Speculative Research & Pedagogy
Presenters: Reynaldo Anderson (Harris-Stowe State University), Jennifer Marie Brissett (Southern New Hampshire University), Kinitra Brooks (Michigan State University), John Jennings (University of California- Riverside), Isiah Lavender III (University of Georgia), and Susana Morris (Georgia Tech)
11:20am-11:50am - Gallery/Lab Tours
12:00pm-12:50pm - Exhibition/Book Talk – The Alchemist’s Notebook: The Satire, Remixes and Haunts of Black Kirby/The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art + Design– Clint Fluker (AUC Woodruff Library) and Stacey Robinson (Harvard-Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellow), Discussant-Brea Stevenson (Clark Atlanta University)
1:00pm-1:50pm - Keynote Luncheon – Sequential Sankofa: Black Comix, Afrofuturism and Digital Design Fiction(s) - John Jennings (University of California-Riverside)
2:00pm-3:15pm - Session II – Re-Examining the Futurism of Identity, Memory, and Religion – David Akombo, Mario Azevedo, Lisa Beckley-Roberts, Siddig Fageir, Leniece Smith, and RaShelle Smith-Spears (Jackson State University)
3:20pm-3:50pm - Gallery/Lab Tours
4:00pm – 5:15pm - Session III – Spiritual Roots and Routes of Afrofuturism – Sonja Andrews (Clark Atlanta University), Anthony D. Boynton, II, Sandra Jacobo, and Christopher Peace (The University of Kansas)
Day Two -Thursday, February 20:
Georgia Institute of Technology-Student Center Ballroom
350 Ferst Dr. NW, Atlanta, GA 30332
8:30am-9:00am - Registration (Coffee, Tea, Pastries provided)
9:00am-9:20am - Welcome remarks/logistics – Susana Morris
9:30am-10:45am - Session IV – Black Speculative Organizing at the Local Level - Shannon Theus (Transmedia Artist), Dacia Polk (Independent Artist), and Reynaldo Anderson (Harris Stowe University)
11:00am-12:00pm - Book Talk – Distributed Blackness: African American Cyber Cultures-Andre Brock, Jr. (Georgia Institute of Technology)
12:15pm-1:15pm - Keynote Luncheon - Narrative, Orality, and Improvisation Research Outcomes of the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality – D. Fox Harrell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
1:30pm-2:45pm - Session V- What is Black Media Studies and What is it Doing at an Institute of Technology? – Susana Morris, Joycelyn Wilson, and John Thornton (Georgia Tech)
3:00pm-4:15pm - Session VI - The Black Fantastic in Young Adult Fiction
Matthew Teutsch (Piedmont College), Marcus Haynes (Clark Atlanta University), Violette Meier (Independent Author & Publisher), and RaShell Smith-Spears (Jackson State University)
4:30pm –5:00pm - GA Tech Gallery/ Lab Tours
6:00pm –9:00pm - Reception - Meet the Authors (For Keeps Bookstore, 171 Auburn Avenue, NE, 30303)
Day Three – Friday, Feb. 21:
AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library-Exhibition Hall
111 James P. Brawley Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30314
8:00am-8:50am - Registration - Coffee/Pastries
9:00am-10:50am - Session VII – Hip Hop, Popular Culture & The Future of HBCU’s – Regina Bradley (Kennesaw State University), Charles Clark III (State University of New York- Cooperstown), Jalisa Jones (Clark Atlanta University), and Courtney Terry (Clark Atlanta University)
11:00am-11:50pm - Book Talk – The Lemonade Reader-Kinitra Brooks (Michigan State University), Discussant-Donielle "PacePoetry" Pace (Clark Atlanta University)
12:00pm-12:50pm - CAU Keynote Luncheon – Afrofuturism: A Practice in Creativity and World Building - Ytasha Womack (Independent Author and Filmmaker)
1:00pm-2:15pm - Session VIII – Afrofuturistic Worldbuilding, Reparations and Critical Posthumanism – Jennifer Marie Brissett (Southern New Hampshire University), Robert Brown (Morehouse College), and Tanya Clark (Morehouse College)
2:20pm-2:50pm - Gallery/Lab Tours
3:00pm-3:50pm - Session IX – The 20th Anniversary of Stankonia- Regina Bradley (Kennesaw State University)
4:00pm –5:15pm - Session X – Steamfunk, Rococoa and Dieselfunk: Afrofuturism’s Exploration of the Past – Balogun Ojetade, Milton Davis, Valjeanne Jeffers, and Gerald Coleman (Independent Scholars)
6:30pm-8:30pm - Closing Plenary – The New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life - Ruha Benjamin (Princeton University) – Spelman College, 350 Spelman Lane SW, Atlanta, GA 30314 - Sisters Chapel
10:00pm -Until - Planet Deep South – Meet-up (TBA)
Day Four – Saturday, Feb. 22:
AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library-Exhibition Hall
111 James P. Brawley Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30314
9:00am-11:00am - Closing Session –Planet Deep South Next Steps - Tentative
9:00am-5:00pm - Atlanta City Tours (tentative)