The scheduled  participants include scholars, artists, and community
activists.  We also expect and invite the participation of students and the
community at large.  We hope to generate an ongoing dialogue and
investigation of the shifting interconnections between "race," "technology"
and "culture," defining these terms broadly in order to introduce as many
creative and critical perspectives as possible.  We anticipate a provocative
and inspiring series of dialogues regarding questions of technologies both
visual and textual, electronic and social.

The Representations series will feature a range of  interdisciplinary
approaches that engage the complex intersections of our title terms, and
will include artists engaged in works of cultural resistance as well as
scholars whose work foregrounds theoretical, political and cultural
analysis. 

CONFERENCE SERIES STAFF:

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS: 
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, and Valorie D. Thomas, 
English/Media Studies,
English/Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies, Pomona College
Pomona College
 

CONFERENCE PLANNING ASSISTANTS:  Lisa Rollins, Maya Hernandez

WEBDESIGN:  Lisa Rollins

GRAPHICS DESIGN/POSTER PRODUCTION: Sarah Dolinar

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT:  Barbara Clonts
 
 
 

GENERAL SCHEDULE:

We begin with a panel February 1, 2001 that will coincide with the beginning
of Black History Month, titled "Politics, Technology and Cultural Work" that
will include Kalamu Ya Salaam, Garth Trinidad, Kim-Trang Tran, and Dianne
Glave.   Moderator: Lisa Rollins

The next event February 15, 2001, is a lecture by Herman Gray of UC Santa
Cruz, titled "Television and Difference in the Making of the Imaginary
Nation."

The Pomona College English Department is honored to host, in conjunction
with RTC, Dr. Joyce Ann Joyce, distinguished scholar of African American
literature and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Temple
University, as the 2001 Charles Holmes Memorial Lecturer in Literary
Criticism.  The Holmes lecture is  March 1, 2001, at 4:15 PM in Crookshank
101.   The Annual Charles Holmes Memorial Lecture has featured many
distinguished scholars in the past, most recently including Luke Menand in
March 2000, Marjorie Perloff ('99), Wayne Booth ('98), and Steven Greenblatt
('97).   Dr. Joyce's lecture, "The Poetry of Sonia Sanchez: An Anxiety of
Confluence," adds an important critical voice and perspective in African
American literary scholarship to the Claremont Colleges community.   As this
year's Holmes lecturer, Dr. Joyce will amplify the critical dialogue
concerning  issues of cultural production that the RTC series aims to
generate. 

The panel on March 8, 2001, is "Race, Technology and Education."  Panelists
include Abdul Alkalimat of the University of Toledo, Trevor Campbell of
Harvey Mudd College, Cecelia Conrad of Pomona College, Catherine Walker of
University of Redlands, and Michael Black of Harvey Mudd College.
Moderator: Sid Lemelle, Pomona College

The next panel  on March 28, 2001, is titled "Cyberspace, Film and Media,"
and will include Katharine Hayles, Chon Noriega and Teshome Gabriel from
UCLA, Phyllis Jackson of Pomona College,  and Barbara Ige of Pitzer College.
Moderator: Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College

Valerie Smith and Richard Yarborough will deliver back to back lectures on
race and U.S. cinema.  Professor Smith's lecture on April 11, 2001, is
titled "Memory, Nostalgia and the Civil Rights Movement in Contemporary
Film."  Professor Yarborough will discuss "Racial Oppression and the Dilemma
of Black Violence in Recent U.S. Historical Cinema" on April 12, 2001.
 

Ericka Huggins will speak and conduct a workshop on April 27 & 28, 2001,
titled "Technologies of the Self and the Sacred: Uplifitng Communities by
Cultivating Our Inner Resources."  ****Please note that the venue for this
event has changed: the lecture will be in Crookshank 101.