The conference "Imaging, Imagination and Memory: Gender, Racial and Political Violence" is being organized as a response to our conference last April, "Imprisoned Intellectuals: Scholars, Activists and (Former) Political Prisoners Dialogue on War, Peace, and Social Justice." This conference will address themes of violence, and resistance to violence, in American visual culture and U.S. domestic and foreign policies. In the current climate of increasing global violence and warfare, in which the majority of casualities are "civilians," especially women and children of color, we hope that the March 15th gathering will inform and influence our debates and activities focused on democracy, peace, and human rights.

		9:30am Welcome/Introduction Joy James, Brown University 10:00am-12:00pm Visual Culture: Appearance and Performance Joseph Jordan, University of North Carolina "Warfare and the 'Other(s):' Race, Militarism and Political Violence" William Nericcio, San Diego State University "Lupe Velez, Cinema, and the Toilet: Tales of the Mexican Spitfire in an American Vomitorium" T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Hamilton College "Unspeakable Acts Spoken: Thanatic Pornography, Interracial Rape, and the Ku Klux Klan" Tisa Bryant, Brown University MFA ('04), Moderator-Commentator 12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch (on your own) 1:30pm-3:45pm Incarceration: Writing, Teaching and Representation Susan Rosenberg, author and former U.S. "political prisoner" "Women Casualties of the Drug War" Dylan Rodriguez, UC-Riverside ""Living Death": The Political Logic of Forced Passages" Michael Hames-Garcia, Stanford University "Toward a Praxical Moral theory: Prison Poets and Intellectuals" Joy James, Africana Studies, Brown University, Moderator-Commentator 3:45pm- 5:15pm Film & Discussion: Puerto Rican Independence and Individual & Communal Incarceration Nyla Rosen (Brown '03/RAB recipient) Hana Tauber (Brown '03/RAB recipient) José Ignacio Fusté (Brown '01) 5:15pm: Short prose reading Tisa Bryant 5:25pm: Close
		To register, or for more information, please write to image_imagination_memory@brown.edu or Tisa Bryant/Joy James, Department of Africana Studies, Brown University This conference is supported by The Department of Africana Studies, Hewlett Faculty Fellows and Professor Joy James
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