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Thursday, 15 November 2007, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

OPENING SESSION
Location: Cantor Film Center – Room 200

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.  Registration/Check-in 

6:30 – 7:45 p.m.  Welcome by Deborah Willis, Manthia Diawara, and Sheril Antonio 
					Panel: How Do We See Ourselves in Art and Film
                     Moderator: Sheril Antonio 
                     Panelists: Danny Glover, Manthia Diawara, Zola Maseko, 
					  Jihan El Tahri, Moussa Sene Absa, and Ed Guerrero.
8:00 – 9:00 p.m.  Film: The Foreigner by Zola Maseko 1997, 17 min.

Photo Gallery for November 15, 2007

Friday, 16 November 2007, 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.

ART SESSIONS
Location: Kimmel Center, 10th Floor, Rosenthal Pavilion

8:45 – 9:15 a.m.  Continental Breakfast, Registration 
				  Welcome by Romi Crawford and Deborah Willis  
9:15 – 11:00 a.m. Panel: Black Artists and American Museums
                    Moderator: Bridget Cooks.
                    Panelists: Jonathan Binstock, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Howardena Pindell

11:15 – 1:00 p.m. Panel: Artists and Educators I: Trends in Art
                    Moderator: Nancy Barton
                    Panelists: Sandra Jackson Dumont, Sarah Lewis, Myra Greene, 
                    Arturo Lindsay, C. Daniel Dawson

1:00 – 2:00 p.m   Lunch Break



Location: Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Theater

2:00 – 3:45 p.m   Panel: Word and Image
                    Moderator: Franklin Sirmans
                    Panelists: Quincy Troupe, halley k. harrisburg, Carla Williams, 
                      Richard Powell, David C. Driskell

4:00 – 5:45 p.m.  Panel: Image and Exchange: Strategies at Home and Abroad
                    Moderator: Isolde Brielmaier
                    Panelists: Terry Adkins, Huey Copeland, Naomi Beckwith, Krista Thompson

6:30 – 7:30 p.m.  Keynote Conversation: Connections and Collaborations
                   Carrie Mae Weems in conversation with Kori Newkirk
                   Introduction by Deborah Willis

FILM SESSIONS
Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 

11:30 – 5:30 p.m.  Registration 

12:00 – 1:30 p.m.  Screening: Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper, documentary by St. Clair Bourne, 60 min. 
                     Introduction by Clyde Taylor.

1:30 – 2:30 p.m.   Lunch 

2:30 – 5:00 p.m.   Screening: Cuba, An African Odyssey, documentary by Jihan El Tahri, 2007, 120 min.
                     Introduction by Manthia Diawara with filmmaker.

NEW TIME AND LOCATION: Cantor Film Center, Room 200

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.   Screening: Juju Factory, fiction by Balufu Bakupa Kanyinda, 2007, 90 min.
                     Introduction by Yemane Demissie with filmmaker.

Photos from November 16, 2007


RECEPTION
Location: Tisch School of the Arts - Riese Family Lounge, lst floor
Photos from Reception

8:00 – 9:30 p.m.   Performance: Music by KAISSA
 Welcome by Associate Dean Sheril Antonio, Manthia Diawara, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Danny Glover

Saturday 17 November 2007, 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

ART SESSIONS
Location: The Lecture Hall at 19 West 4th Street, Room 101

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.   Registration

9:30 – 11:15 a.m.  Panel:Curators and Critics
                     Moderator: Kellie Jones.
                     Panelists: Salah M. Hassan, Alvia Wardlaw, Christine Y. Kim, Trevor Schoonmaker, Cheryl Finley

11:15 – 12:30 p.m. Lunch Break

12:30 – 2:00 p.m.  Panel:Contemporary Artists in Conversation
                     Moderator: Sarah Lewis.
                     Panelists: Leslie Hewitt, Wangechi Mutu, Hank Willis Thomas, Kehinde Wiley

2:30 – 3:45 p.m.   Panel:Artists and Educators II: On Particularism
                     Moderator: Romi Crawford.
                     Panelists: Whitfield Lovell, Emma Amos, Leslie King-Hammond, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Melvin Edwards

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.   Panel:The Artist and the Art Market
                     Moderator: Nancy Lane.
                     Panelists: June Kelly, Jack Shainman, Charles Guice, Alvin Hall, CCH Pounder

 Photos from Saturday, 17 November 2007

FILM SESSIONS
Location: Cantor Film Center – Room 200

10:30 – 12:00 p.m. Screening: Handsworth Songs, documentary by John Akomfrah, 1986, 58 min. 
                     Introduction by Awam Amkpa with filmmaker.

12:30 – 2:00 p.m.  Screening: The 12 Disciples of Nelson Mandela, documentary by Thomas Allen Harris, 2005, 73 min. 
                     Introduction by Awam Amkpa with filmmaker.

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.   Lunch 

3:00 – 5:00 p.m.   Screening: Teranga Blues, fiction by Moussa Sene Absa, 2007, 95min. 
                     Introduction by Clyde Taylor with fimmaker.

5:00 – 6:30 p.m.   Screening: “Homage to Ousmane Sembène” Ousmane Sembène, the Making of African Cinema by Manthia Diawara, 1993, 56 min.
                     Introduction by Clyde Taylor and Manthia Diawara with filmmaker.

RECEPTION AND EXHIBITION PREVIEW
Location: Studio Museum in Harlem

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.   Exhibition: Kori Newkirk: 1997-2007

        
Sunday 18 November, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.     

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND EXHIBITION PREVIEW
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art

9:00 – 11:00 a.m.   Exhibition: Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
                      Welcome by Margie Weinstein

EXHIBITION PREVIEW AND RECEPTION

Location: Institute of African American Affairs

12:00 - 1:30 P.M.    Exhibition: Memory and Place

FILM SESSIONS
Location: Cantor Film Center - Room 200 

2:00 – 4:30 p.m.    Panel: Contemporary Filmmakers in Conversation
                      Moderator: Manthia Diawara.
                      Panelists: Jacquie Jones, Mahen Bonetti, CCH Pounder and the filmmakers, John Akomfrah, 
                        Balufu Bakupa Kanyinda, Jihan El Tahri, Zola Maseko, Thomas Allen Harris, 
                        Moussa Sene Absa. Clyde Taylor.

4:30 - 4:45 p.m.    Closing Remarks by Manthia Diawara.

5:00 – 7:30 p.m.    Screening: Drum, fiction by Zola Maseko, 2004, 94 min. 
                   		 Introduction with Ed Guerrero.

Photos from November 18, 2007