BNS 2023 Schedule
1:00 Introduction/Welcome
1:15 - 2:15 Panel 1. Satire and Irony in Erasure
Moderator: Tara Menon
Brittney Michelle Edmonds, “Satirizing Satire: Representing Blackness and the Social Protest Mountain”
Kinohi Nishikawa, “A Self-Consuming Artifact”
2:15 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 3:30 Panel 2. Percival Everett and Black Literary Traditions
Moderator: Faith Smith
Keyana Parks, “Notes on the Women of Percival Everett’s Erasure”
Bert Ashe, “Does Post-Blackness ‘Erase’ Traditional Blackness in Percival Everett’s Erasure?”
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45- 4:45 Panel 3. Erasure and Form
Moderator: Howie Tam
Mary Esteve, “An Adventure in the Art and Politics of Elimination, or Why Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison Is Not a Painter”
Megan Finch, “But Really, What Is Black Literature? 'Pafology,' the Black Intramural, and the Novel Form”
4:45 - 5:30 Reception