FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 ALTSCHUL ATRIUM BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 6.00 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS “THE INTELLIGENT BODY AND EROTIC SOUL OF JOSEPHINE BAKER” MARGO JEFFERSON, PULITZER PRIZE-WININING CRITIC, AUTHOR WRITING DIVISION COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 7.00 PM “HOOFER’S HOUSE” PRESENTED BY THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM 8.00 PM RECEPTION 9.45 AM OPENING REMARKS 10.00 AM PANEL I A PRESET STAGE “SYNESTHETIC RHYTHMS: AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC AND DANCE THROUGH PARISIAN EYES” “THROUGH A LOVER’S EYES AND A CULTURE’S DESIRE: JOSEPHINE BAKER AND THE ART OF PAUL COLIN” 11.45 AM COFFEE 12.00 PM PANEL II BAKER’S CRAFT “WHOSE CHOREOGRAPHY?: JOSEPHINE BAKER AND THE QUESTION OF (DANCE) AUTHORSHIP” “THE END OF THE LINE: JOSEPHINE BAKER AND THE POLITICS OF BLACK WOMEN’S CORPOREAL COMEDY” “JOSEPHINE BAKER AS DIASPORIC DANCER” 1.45 PM LUNCH 3.00 PM PANEL III STAGING TENSIONS, CROSSING BORDERS, DANCING IN-BETWEEN CHAIR: ROBERT G. O’MEALLY, ENGLISH, JAZZ STUDIES COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY “FOIL, FICTION AND PHANTASM: ‘JOSEPHINE BAKER’ IN PRINCESSE TAM TAM” “JOSEPHINE BAKER AND THE DAWN OF TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA” “THE USE VALUE OF ‘JOSEPHINE BAKER’” 4.45 PM COFFEE 5.00 PM FILM SCREENING ZOU-ZOU (1934) 10.30 AM PANEL IV JOSEPHINE BAKER AND OTHER “OTHERS” “KATHERINE DUNHAM ON THE FRENCH STAGE (NO REPEAT OF LA REVUE NÈGRE)” “BODY AND SOUL: JOSEPHINE, JANE AND PAULETTE” “REDISCOVERING AICHA, LUCY AND D’AL AL, COLORED FRENCH STAGE ARTISTS” “AFTER JOSEPHINE: BLACK AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE FRENCH MUSIC SCENE" 12.45 PM COFFEE 1.00 PM PANEL V “AGENT JOSEPHINE” CHAIR: KIM HALL, ENGLISH BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY “FROM THE SECOND GREAT WAR TO IRAQ: BEAUTY, PATRIOTISM, AND LIEUTENANT JOSEPHINE BAKER” “SAMPLING JOSEPHINE BAKER: CUTS FROM TOUKI BOUKI, ALMA’S RAINBOW AND MADAME SATA” “ADOPTIVE AFFINITIES: JOSEPHINE BAKER AND BLACK INTERNATIONALISM” “JOSEPHINE BAKER, PERFORMANCE, AND THE TRAUMATIC REAL” 3.15 PM CLOSING REMARKS |