4/20, 9:30am-4:30pm – Panels & Lunch Break @ Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello


4/21, 9am-5pm – Panels & Lunch Break @ Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello
        5-7pm – Closing Reception


Panel Schedule at a Glance


April 20

9:30am – Welcome

9:45am – Radical Curricula (moderator: Cherise Smith, panelists: Titus Kaphar, Romi Crawford, Justin Randolph Thompson, Jonathan Nelson)

11:15am – Politics of Return (moderator: Michael Dinwiddie, panelists: Patrick Quarm, Thabang Monoa, Lyle Ashton Harris, Esther Armah)

12:30pm – Lunch Break

1:30pm – Black Subjectivities in Texts Across History and Experience (moderator: Deborah Paredez, panelists: Maaza Mengiste, Ben Okri, John Murillo, Fatin Abbas)

3pm – Africa and the Mediterranean World (moderator: Tumelo Mosaka, panelists: Maïmouna Gueressi, Avinoam Shalem, Alessandra Dimaio)


April 21

9am – Archives, Collections, and Curating (moderator: Liz Andrews, panelists: Paul Ninson, LeRonn Brooks & Steven Booth, Alberta Whittle, Monica DiMiranda)

10:30am – Black Realities through Digital Media (moderator: Anna Arabindon Kesson, panelists: Carrie Mae Weems, Elvira 
Dyangani Ose, Hank Willis Thomas)

11:45am – Lunch Break

1pm – Arts Ecosystems (moderator: Dejha Carrington, panelists: Colleen Ndemeh, Kukily Colectivo, Freda Isingoma, Samira Ibrahim)

2:30pm – Making Space (Black Spatial Design) (moderator: Rujeko Hockley, Mabel O. Wilson, Marsha Pearce, Mae-ling Lokko)

4pm – African Venice Book Presentation (Shaul Bassi, Paul Kaplan, Luca Cosentino, Maaza Mengiste)