Program Schedule

Program Schedule*

Wednesday, March 16 – Smith Lecture Hall

9:45    Doors Open

10:00   Welcome and Opening Remarks

            Dr. Eileen De Freece (English) and Prof. Jina Lee (English), Conference Co-chairs 
            Dr. Gale E. Gibson, President

            Dr. Stephanie A. Steplight Johnson, Dean of Liberal Arts

            Dr. Christopher Rivera, Chair, Humanities Division

            Prof. William Tooma, Community College Humanities Association

10:15 Session I – Race, Class, and City Life

            Moderator: Prof. Jina Lee

            “A Neighborhood Apart: Signifiers of Race and Class in the NYC Urban Landscape”
            Prof. Sean O’Connell, Essex County College

            “Fear and Loathing in the Big Metropolis: the Darktown/Blackville Mashup”
            Prof. Rebecca Williams, Essex County College

          

11:30 Session II – Religion in the Urban Sphere

          Moderator: Prof. Mikal Naeem Nash
           “Radicals of the Urban Spirit: Redescribing Religion in Prewar Greenwich Village” 
           Dr. Geoffrey N. Pollick, New York University, New York, NY
           “Public Space, Muslims and the Urban Mosque in Newark, NJ: Engaging the American Public Square”
           Prof. Mikal Naeem Nash, Essex County College
           “Muslim News Organs and Black Empowerment”

           Dr. Khuram Hussain, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY

             

1:00   Session III – Creative Roundtable: Newark Street Art/Style Newark 350

          Moderator: Fayemi Shakur, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art

            Rodney Gilbert, Newark Mural Arts, Yendor Productions

            Jerry Gant, Artist, Newark, NJ

            Noelle Lorraine Williams, Artist, NJ

Thursday, March 17 - Smith Lecture Hall

10:00 Session I – Newark History Newark 350

            Moderator: Dr. Eileen De Freece 
            “Howard Street: 'Prostitutes, Whores, Bitches, and Ho's': Black Female Identity in Newark's Old 3rd Ward”
            Dr. Eileen De Freece, Essex County College

            “The History of the Hospitals of Newark”
            Dr. Michael J. McDonough, Drew University, Madison, NJ

            “Newark Basketball 1957-1967: A Court of One’s Own”
            Prof. Ronald Strothers, Essex County College  

11:30 Session II – Reimagining Noir

            Moderator: Prof. Sean O’Connell
            “Cities of Noir” Dr. Jeffrey Lee, Essex County College

            “21st Century Post-Modern Noir Detectives: Reclaiming Old Themes with New Faces”
            Kathy Lee, Independent Scholar, Plainfield, NJ

            “Batman, Comic Movies, and Film Noir”
            Prof. Victoria Timpanaro, Essex County College

1:00   Session III – Seeing Difference/Seeing Differently

            Moderator: Prof. Rebecca Williams

            “Soul Searching: The Racial Complexity of Cane”
            Dr. Evan Jobst, College of St. Joseph, Rutland, VT

            “A Bosporus Adventure: Mary Mills Patrick’s, Dos Passos’s, and Hemingway’s Istanbul”
            Dr.  Sema Ege, University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

            “Old Chinatowns, New Chinatowns: Ethnic Enclaves for Chinese Americans”
            Dr. Douglas B. Rosentrater, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA

2:30   Lunch

          *Afternoon Sessions Held in Siegler Hall

3:50   Session IV – Round Table: Blogging Newark Newark 350

            Moderator: Prof. Jennifer Wager

            Tehsaun Glover, Journalist, The Newark Times, Newark, NJ

            Lisa Durden, Filmmaker, Social Media Guru, Newark, NJ

            Hugo Dos Santos, Ironbound Blogger, Newark, NJ

7:00   Session V – Gentrification Blues Panel and Film Screening

            Moderator: Prof. Jennifer Wager

            “The Making of First Friday”
            Filmmakers N’Jeri Eaton and Mario Furloni

            “Pruitt-Igoe and the Failure of Modernism”
            Prof. Michael Pekarofski, Essex County College
            This panel is co-sponsored by the National Black Programming Consortium.

Friday, March 18 - Siegler Lecture Hall

9:45   Doors Open

10:00 Closing Session – Do the Right Thing – Film Screening

            “Living for the City: Politics and Poetics of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing”

            Prof. Jennifer Wager and Prof. Rebecca Williams, Essex County College
            "Equality for Flatbush: Anti-Police Repression, Affordable Housing, and Anti-Gentrification"
            Imani Henry, Activist and Lead Organizer, Equality for Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY