Symposium Program
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Download the Symposium Program (pdf)Friday, May 18, 2012
| 4:00-6:00pm | Registration
Symposium Check in (Shaffer Silveri Atrium/Parmer Hall) Lodging Check in (Coughlin Commons) |
| 6:00-7:30pm |
Welcome and Opening Plenary (Shaffer Silveri Atrium/Parmer Hall)
Invocation
Blues Summitt on the State of the Music Today
Participants: Sugar Blue, Billy Branch, Matthew Skoller, Deitra Farr, Sharon Lewis, Barry
Dolins, others TBA
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| 7:30-8:00pm | Presentation of 2012 Blues and the Spirit Awards Recipient: Marie Dixon (Widow of Willie Dixon and President of the Blues Heaven Foundation) Presenters: Donna Carroll, President, Dominican University Janice Monti, Director, Blues and the Spirit Symposium and Professor of Sociology, Dominican University Robbi Byrdsong Wright, Assistant Dean for Academic Success Services and Diversity, Rosary College of Arts and Sciences, Dominican University |
| 8:00-8:30pm |
Reception (Shaffer Silveri Atrium/Parmer Hall)
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| 8:45-9:00pm | Board Bus for Harlem Avenue Lounge |
| 9:00pm-12:00am |
An Evening with Chicago's Blues Divas Wristbands required for entrance Confirmed appearances by Deitra Farr, Peaches Statin, Nellie Travis and Sharon Lewis (Special guest, Jacob Schulz, representing the new generation of Chicago Blues performers) |
Saturday, May 19, 2012 |
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| 8:30-11:30am |
Registration
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| 9:30-10:45am |
Keynote Address (Martin Recital Hall/Fine Arts Building):
“Gotta Sing on the Beats They Bring Us”: Gender, Class, and 21
st Century Blues Women’s Epistemology
Keynote Speaker: Zandria R. Robinson, Assistant Professor of Sociology and James and Madeleine McMullan Assistant Professor of Southern Studies, University of Mississippi. Disscusant: Chavella Pittman, Assistant Professor of Sociology,Dominican University |
| 11:00-12:45am |
Panel (Bluhm Auditorium, 108 Parmer Hall
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| 12:45-2:00pm |
Lunch Panel (Bluhm Auditorium, 108 Parmer Hall)
Cultural Tourism and the Blues
Participants: Barry Dolins, former Director of the Chicago Blues Festival, Michael Orlove, former Senior Programs Director at the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and other Cultural Programmers from local agencies and the City of Chicago(TBA) (Brown bag lunch provided) |
| 2:15-3:30pm |
Panel (Bluhm Auditorium, 108 Parmer Hall)
What the Music Says: Reflections on Blues and Hip-Hop's Intersections Participants: Gil Cook, Dominican University, Ernest Gibson, Dartmouth College, Stephanie Spaulding, Colorado State University, Robert Hanserd, Dominican University, Nick Krebs |
| 3:30-4:45pm |
Multimedia Presentation (Martin Recital Hall/Fine Arts Building) :
Tracing the Legacy Stephanie Shonekan, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Black Studies, University of
Missouri, Columbia
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| 5:00pm-6:15pm |
Closing Keynote (Martin Recital Hall/Fine Arts Building) :
What the Music Says
Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African and African American Studies, Duke University
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| 6:15-7:30pm |
Closing Reception (Shaffer Silveri Atrium/Parmer Hall) Vendors and Poster Presentations |
| 8:30pm-2:00am |
Bus Exursion to the After Party at Rosa's Lounge, Chicago , IL
Sugar Blue and Friends Celebrate the Blues Legacy
(Wristbands required for this event)
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$75 registration fee includes two receptions, participation in all sessions and panels, and transportation to and from the Friday and Saturday after party events and club cover charges. A small number of no-frills but very affordable dormitory-style rooms on campus will be available for those who register early. (Singles at $50; doubles at $90 and suites for up to four people for $160 per night). Register now.