THINKING ITS PRESENCE: THE RACIAL IMAGINARY: Full Schedule

11:00am MDT

Film, Narrativity, and Oral Histories

A panel exploring the intersections, challenges, and realities in narrative realism and in storytelling through oral histories, filmmaking, and documentary film, in particular. Screening of excerpted films by Lorna Lowe and Brooke Swaney. Katie Kane will be discussing oral histories gathered in Haiti for the Voices of Witness Project (McSweeney's). David Witzling will moderate.

Moderators

David Witzling

Associate Professor, English, Manhattan College

I am Associate Professor of English at Manhattan College, where I teach American Literature, African-American literature, and literary theory. I am the author of Everybody’s America: Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism (Routledge, 2008). My ongoing research project... Read More →

Speakers

Katie Kane

Associate Professor, University of Montana

Katie Kane is a professor of Cultural Studies, English Literature, and Colonial Studies at the University of Montana. The author of a study on the links between Ireland and Indian Country as they emerge out of a shard history of land appropriation and the use of reserved land, Kane... Read More →

Lorna Lowe

Producer, Lorna Lowe|Documentary Films, Inc.

Brooke Pepion Swaney

Brooke grew up on and then off the Flathead Reservation, when her single mother moved the two of them to the “big city,” or Helena, Montana. That’s where she lost her Rez accent, although her accent was pretty dorky before she left the rez. The next 3 decades she spent toiling... Read More →

Friday March 13, 2015 11:00am - 12:50pm MDT
UC Theatre UC

Presentation Talk/Presentation/Screening

11:00am MDT

Another Word for Giving Up: Thinking About Hope, Healing, and Justice in the Age of Irony

David Micah Greenberg will moderate a discussion with John Keene and Jess Row focusing on race, irony, and justice.

Moderators

David Micah Greenberg

The author of Planned Solstice (Iowa), David Micah Greenberg’s poems have appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, and other publications, and have received awards from NEH and the American Academy of Poets. A former organizer with homeless men and women and... Read More →

Speakers

John Keene

Distinguished Professor and Chair, Africana Studies, English, MFA in Creative Writing, Rutgers University

John Keene is the author, co-author, and translator of a handful of books, including the poetry collection Punks: New & Selected Poems, which received a 2022 National Book Award, a 2022 Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle, a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and... Read More →

Jess Row

Jess Row is the author of the novel Your Face in Mine (2014) and two collections of short stories, Nobody Ever Gets Lost (2011) and The Train to Lo Wu (2005). His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, Tin House, and many other venues, and he's a frequent contributor... Read More →

Saturday March 14, 2015 11:00am - 12:50pm MDT
UC 333

Panel Talk/Presentation/Screening