AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRADITIONS SEMINAR
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRADITIONS
The legacy of the Harlem Renaissance
June 913, 1998
The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel
State College, Pennsylvania
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The end of the ³American Century² is an auspicious moment to set about the
task of assessing African-American traditions and forecasting their
survival in the new millenium. For the summers between 1997 and 2002, the
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies and its vital collaborators
have endeavored to offer a national forum of scholars and artists for new,
emerging work as well as new interpretations and perspectives on
African-American traditions, heritage, and redefinitions of self in a
challenging format of activities.
This year¹s summer institute focuses on the Harlem Renaissance (also known
as ³the New Negro Renaissance²), the artistic, literary, and intellectual
movement of the 1920s and 30s characterizing the country¹s first sustained
period of intense activity by African Americans in the fields of art,
dance, literature, and music.
SEMINAR DESCRIPTIONS
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (I)‹ AAAS 597A, 1 credit
The seminar will be a critical inquiry into the politics and poetics of
white and black American cultural nationalism and identity formation
during the era of modernism and the Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem Renaissance Legacy in the Visual Arts‹ AAAS 597B, 1 credit
The seminar will examine the visual arts produced during the years of the
vital ³New Negro Movement² in Harlem.
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (II)‹ AAAS 597C, 1 credit
The seminar will offer faculty a pedagogical component for classrooms and
larger institutional settings by enabling them to compare and contrast
selections in two new, yet different, major anthologies‹the Norton and
Riverside Anthologies‹as well as other selections in addressing the
politics and poetics of identity formation in modern African-American
culture and literature.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
All seminars are open to scholars, college and university teachers,
artists, and cultural professionals in the United States, Canada, and
abroad, as well as to faculty mentors and their graduate students.
GUEST FACULTY AND VISITING FELLOWS
-Floyd Coleman, Ph.D., University of Georgia, Professor of Art, and
Chairman, Department of Art, Howard University
-Ann duCille, Ph.D., Brown University, Professor of American and
African-American Literature, University of California, San Diego
-Richard Mayhew, Professor Emeritus of Art, and Fellow Emeritus of the
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, The Pennsylvania State
University
-Nellie McKay, Ph. D., Harvard University, Professor of American and
Afro-American Literature at University of Wisconsin-Madison
-Raymond Tymas-Jones, Ph.D., Washington University, Professor of Music,
and Director of the School of Music, Northern Iowa University
For complete details and up-to-date information, please visit the Web site at:
http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/AfricanAmericanTraditions/
FOR MORE INFORMATION
About program content:
Carl Blake, Associate Director
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
Ihlseng Cottage
University Park PA 16802-1704
Phone: (814) 865-0495
E-mail: ia...@psu.edu
About registration:
Lori Benson, Conference Planner
The Pennsylvania State University
225 The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel
University Park PA 16802-7002
Phone: (814) 863-5100
E-mail: Confere...@cde.psu.edu
an outreach program of the College of Arts and Architecture, the College of the
Liberal Arts, and the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies
To receive a brochure with registration materials, nationwide, call
1-800-PSU-TODAY (1-800-778-8632) or send us an e-mail with your name,
address, phone number, fax number, and Internet address to
Confere...@cde.psu.edu . Please be sure to reference
AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRADITIONS in all correspondence.
For information about all of Penn State¹s upcoming programs, visit our Web
site: http://www.outreach.psu.edu
Penn State is an affirmative action, equal opportunity university.
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