Conference Schedule

1:00 – 1:30 | Arrival and check-in

1:30 – 3:00 | Plants, Expressive Culture, and the Spirit (Dining Room)

Chad Graham, “A Song for Osain: Lessons from the Orisha of Plants & Medicine”
Peter Hoesing, “Ecologies of Well-being: Hearing Uganda Through Ritual Repertoires”
Samuel Umoh, “The Forbidden and Sacred Landscape of the Gods in Nigeria”
Katherine Dimmery, Chair

3:00 – 3:30 | Coffee break

3:30 – 5:00 | Vodou Ecological Ethic for Earth Liberation (Dining Room)

5:00 – 6:00 | Opening reception (Foyer/Patio)

Dinner on your own.

9:00 – 9:30 | Continental breakfast (Upper Lobby)

9:30 – 10:30 | Kalunga Crossings: Waterscapes of Terror and “Teachment” in the African Atlantic World: Dialogic Keynote (Dining Room)

10:30 – 10:45 | Morning break

10:45 – 12:15 | Homegrown: the Arts, Ethics, and Fugitive Sciences of Conjure Feminism (Amphitheatre)

Kameelah L. Martin, “Conjure Feminism: The Root(work) of Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions”
Mark Lomanno, “ ‘For the Song was Given Me’: Abbey Lincoln Conjures a More Wholly Earth”
Yvonne Chireau, “Care and Creation in the Conjure Women’s Garden: An Ecological Perspective”
Janie Cole, Chair

12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch (Dining Room)

1:30 – 3:00 | The Rituals and Art of Self-Repair and Sustainability (Amphitheatre)

Laura Carter, “Ecologies of Marronnage as Self-Repair in Guadeloupe”
Simone Delaney, “Black Electronic Music as a Means of Eco-Ancestral Repair: Aural Traces of More-than-human Relationalities”
Ijeoma Forchu, “Ala,the Eagle and the Kite: Advocates of environmental sustainability in Igbo songs”
Rebecca Dirksen, Chair

3:00 – 3:30 | Coffee break (Upper Lobby)

3:30 – 5:00 | Standalone Performance-Demonstration (Outside/Dining Room)

Dinner on your own.

9:00 – 9:30 | Continental breakfast (Upper Lobby)

9:30 – 11:00 | The Rituals and Poetics of Water (Dining Room)

Falana Gbenga, “Echoes of Ecological Activism: Yoruba Spoken Word ‘Omi Yaya’ and Musical Narratives on Flood Disaster”
Sally Hansen, “Stammering Sea, Re-writing Sacrifice: M. NourbeSe Phillip’s Sangoma Poetics”
Steveen Ulysse, “Konesans soti anba dlo, a wet ontological approach to understanding Ginen’s positionality in the shaping of Vodou knowledge”
Collin Edouard, Chair

11:00 – 11:15 | Morning break

11:15 – 12:45 | Theology of Migration and the Black Arts (Amphitheatre)

Stephanie Boddie & Isaiah Baba, “Singing with the Soil: Exploring African Diasporic Farming Traditions and Theological Connections”
Stephanie Boddie & Bianca Smith, “Migration stories: Me, My people, and Creatures Big and Small”
Ralph S. Emerson & Robert White, “Growth from a Garden: A Biblical Discipleship Model through the Lens of the Soil”
Ryan Darr, Chair

12:45 – 1:45 | Lunch (Dining Room)

1:45 – 3:15 | Art, Eco-Spirituality & Ecological Crisis (Amphitheatre)

Zainabu Jallo, “Abdias do Nascimento: Eco-Spirituality and Art”
Michelle Lewis, “Water and Spirit: The Ecotheologies of Black Coastal Communities”
Sibahle Ndwayana, “Caboverdianidade e Africanidade: Batuque’s ec(h)o poetics and maroon reverberations”
Eben Graves, Chair

3:15 – 4:00 | Coffee break (Upper Lobby)

4:00 –4:30 | Concluding discussions (Amphitheatre)

Dinner on your own

Departures

Institute of Sacred Music