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Black Love Conference: Love Supreme
February 9 - 10, 2001

Understanding Love in the African Diaspora
Despite ever-changing approaches to African Diaspora research, much discourse about the Black experience continues to perpetuate a cultural pathology model. By participating in the "Love Supreme" conference, you will take a step towards challenging this controversial idea. Our conference gives burgeoning scholars and their audiences an opportunity to document and analyze the forces that hold Black communities together as well as the forces that have historically torn Black communities apart.

More than fifty years ago, anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston lamented "the lack of literature about the higher emotions and love life of upper-class Negroes and minorities in general." She cried out for a deeper investigation into the lives of her people, saying, "The question naturally arises as to the why of this indifference, not to say skepticism, to the internal lives of minorities."

There is no better time than now to answer Hurston's query. 

Please join us for two exciting and thought provoking days at UCLA. You will be enlightened by discussions on topics such as, love in literature, film, and music of the African Diaspora, romance, courtship, and marriage practices, family structure, transnational bonds, the Black body, sexual identity, and friendship.

Finally, and in addition to this series of provocative panels and roundtables on the 9th, the conference will end with two special events on February 10th -- an open-mike love poetry reading at the Armand Hammer Museum, and a campus film festival of love stories from throughout the African Diaspora.

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Schedule of Events

FEBRUARY 9, 2001 – KERCKHOFF HALL AUDITORIUM

9:30 –10:45 BLACK LOVE AS RESISTANCE: SOUL STRUGGLES, ROMANTIC REBELLIONS, & THE RETURN TO COMMUNITY Moderator: Professor Brenda E. Stevenson
WHOLE LOVE: A LOOK AT MALE-FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS IN AFRICANA WOMANIST NOVELS
	By RaShell R. Smith-Spears – University of Missouri, Columbia
ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART WRITE BLACK ROMANCE NOVELS
	By Myra George – Marquette University
I WILL BRING YOU A WHOLE PERSON: LOVE, COMMUNITY & INTERTEXTUAL CONNECTIONS IN SONG OF SOLOMON & MAMA DAY
	By Tikenya S. Foster Vanderbilt University
BLACK LOVE AT ANY COST: LYNCHING, SACRIFICE, & THE RACIAL POLITICS OF HONOR
	By Tsekani Browne – University of California Los Angeles [back to top]

11:00 – 12:15 BLACK LOVE AS REVELATION: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF IDENTITY, SEXUALITY, & SILENCE Moderator: Professor Arthur Little
AUDRE LORDE: NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES & NEW READINGS OF HER NAME
	By Courtney Johnson – University of California, Los Angeles
MAMA’S BOYS: MIXED MESSAGES & MOTHERHOOD BLUES IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN AND BEYOND THE WHITENESS OF WHITENESS
	By Leslie Wingard, University of California, Los Angeles
LOOKS OF LOVE: THE ROLE OF AMOUROUS RHETORIC IN APHRA BEHN’S OROONOKO OR, THE ROYAL SLAVE
	By Aisha Francis – Vanderbilt University
LOVE ON THE HORIZON: JANIE CRAWFORD’S REVELATORY JOURNEY TO SELFHOOD, UNDERSTANDING & TRUTH IN THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
	By Portia Boulware – Purdue University [back to top]

2:45-4:00 BLACK LOVE AS CELEBRATION REDEMPTION, RECOGNITION, & THE HEALING OF HEARTS Moderator: Professor James H. Cones, III
NARRATIVES OF BEAUTY & SUBJECTIVITY AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
	By Brendesha Tynes, University of California Los Angeles
A CONTEXTUAL EXAMINATION OF SEXUAL DECISION-MAKING IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN ADOLESCENT GIRLS
	By Shani Harris – Duke University
LOVE IN LEIMERT PARK: GAY, STRAIGHT, & SELF-LOVE TURN THE CORNERS OF AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER
	By Reginald Chapple – University of California, Los Angeles
RACE, GENDER & THE DISCOURSE OF DESIRE: ROMANTIC RITUAL AND THE EMOTIONAL PRODUCTION OF IDENTITY
	By Dionne Bennett – University of California, Los Angeles [back to top]

Love As Liberation: An Evening of Poetry, Passion & Politics
Friday, February 9, 2001
6:30 pm until 9:30 pm
Reception starts at 6:30 pm
Location: Armand Hammer Museum - Gallery 6
10889 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Event is free to the public. Poetry Reading & Open Mic Session
For more information cal CSADP at 310.206.5500

Poets
K.W. Kogitsile (Host) 
Blue
Kamau Daood
Nikol Hodges
Ruth Foreman
Peter Harris

Film Festival
Saturday, February 10, 2001
8:30 am until 6:30 pm
Location: Charles E. Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall, UCLA
Event is free to the public. No reservations required. Parking is available for $5.00 at Lot 6. Enter UCLA at Westwood Blvd. and Le Conte. The parking kiosk is located on Westwood. Directions and information provided by Kiosk Attendant on request.

	Cafe Au Lait
	Black Orpheus
	Watermelon Woman
	Nothin' But a Man
	Raisin in the Sun
	For Love of Ivy

 

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Co-organizers:
This event is made possible by the Center for African American Studies, Cultural Studies in the African Diaspora Project, UCLA Graduate Division, Division of Social Sciences/College of Letters & Sciences, the Black Graduate Students Association

Latinos in Black: The African Presence in Latin America

Tuesday, January 30, 2001 2:00-8:00pm
Kerckhoff Grand Salon

For additional information, contact Prof. Mark Sawyer at msawyer@polisci.ucla.edu or 310-825-6629.

Dinner Break 5:30-6:30 (free)

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