Saturday, April 10, 2021
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Panel 1: Historical Writing
9:00-10:15 a.m. Zoom Breakout Room
Banana Peels
David Camper, Jackson State University
The Evolution of Lynching
Crystal Scott, Jackson State University
Moderator: C. Sade Turnipseed, Jackson State University
Panel 2: Literary Analysis and Historical Writing
9:00-10:15 a.m. Zoom Breakout Room
Sounding the Unsovereign: Addressing the Question
of History in Eudora Welty and William Faulkner
Patrick Gregory, University of Mississippi
Murder in a Small Town: Lynching, Violence,
& Complacency in Mississippi’s Blueberry Capital
Alan Wheat, Jackson State University
Moderator: Robert Luckett, Jackson State University
Panel 3: Poetry
9:00-10:15 a.m. Zoom Breakout Room
Rat Race
As Above, So Below
Maya McWilliams, Jackson State University
Tell Them My Name
Shelia Malone, Jackson State University
The Confederate Flag
Children A Piece of Clay
Hatred of My Existence
The African Continent, I Know Not
Rhoda A. McGee-Edwards-Geren, Jackson State University
Self-Portrait of *Monte
Ode to Niples
Michael Montgomery, Millsaps College
Moderator: helen crump, Jackson State University
Panel 4: Creative Writing, Poetry, and Performing Arts
10:30-11:45 a.m. Zoom Breakout Room
Black Queer Existence and Resistance in the South
Tyler Hurley, Jackson State University
Blaxploitnation: Abridged
Blaxploitnation: The Visualizer
Trevian Strong, Jackson State University
My Story, My Life, My Way
Janeth Jackson, University of Mississippi
Moderator: Prince Duren, Jackson State University
Panel 5: Poetry
10:30-11:45 a.m. Zoom Breakout Room
Contemporary Is Still Contemporary:
Gen Z and the Poetry of the Recent Past
“Alone (Jacob Lattimore)”
“Latch (Disclosure)”
“Firefly (Mura Mura)”
Moecha Williams, Allen University
“next gen”
“we play to escape”
“hunted”
Haley Dixon, Allen University
“The Osmium Rose”
Alexander Hampshire, Allen University
“Blue Crabs”
“My Life of Being Successful”
Shadell Frasier, Allen University
Moderator: Fayaz Kabani, Allen University
Panel 6: Visual Arts
10:30-11:45 a.m. Zoom Breakout Room
Physical Exhaustion – Mental Exhaustion – Emotional Exhaustion
A Focus on Alcohol Consumption
Consensual Manipulation
Michael Montgomery, Millsaps College
In the Blue Light
“Don’t Shoot”
“Screaming for Justice”
“I Died in the Blue Light”
“Still Fierce”
“I Still Dream”
Shelia Malone, Jackson State University
Dee
Ashton Gage
Carnell Payne, Jackson State University
Moderator: Doris Derby, Georgia State University