The RISE Symposium back for its second year! From Monday, November 9 – Saturday, November 14, join us for a week of high-level talks and lectures dedicated to centering Black voices, experiences, and knowledge systems.
In collaboration with NSCAD and Mount Allison University, the Rise Symposium features 24 researchers and artists from North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Halifax. New this year is the ‘Narrative Bus,’ which will take researchers around the city to engage with Black communities on the field.
This event is FREE and open to the public, but registration is required.
Schedule:
Monday, November 9
Public Launching / Bell Auditorium
1 p.m. – Drum Opening
1.15 p.m. – NSCAD Dean and President (Bell Auditorium)
1:30 p.m. – Talk by Dr. Eddy Firmin (presentation of this edition and the participants)
1.45 p.m. – Presentation of research and collaboration by Drs. Claudine Bonner and Eddy Firmin
3 p.m. – Tour of the Port Campus
4:30 p.m. – Tour of the Fountain Campus
5:30 p.m. – Meal sharing and singing performance (Lab for Us/InACTS Granville)
Tuesday, November 10
Conference Day 1 : Academy Building / Emmanuel Baptist Church, Hammonds Plains
9:30 a.m. – Keisha Cuffie : Who’s In the Room: A Black Curators View Through the Looking Glass
10:15 a.m. – Patrícia Brito: Infungible Practices and Black Counter-Geographies: Territory, Memory, and Resistance in the Acervo da Laje
2 p.m. – Afua Cooper: Infungible Narratives: Peggy Pompadour and Family, Slavery, Incarceration, and Early Toronto. Telling Peggy’s Story Through Poetry and Fragments of Archives
2:45 p.m. – Julio E. Pereyra Silva: A Plant in the City
3:30 p.m. – Tyshan Wright (Erasure Art Collective): From Fungibility to Refusal: Erasure and Infungible Practice in Blackout
Wednesday, November 11
Conference Day 2: Africville Museum
9 a.m. – Departure to Africville Museum with the Narrative Bus (limited seats)
10:15 a.m. – Po B. K. Lomami: Nothing Cannot Be Extracted
11 a.m. – Carole nganso: Bringing Worlds into Being. How a Practice Becomes Infungible
Noon – Lunch Break
2 p.m. – Joris Lechêne: Re-Indigenize Basse-Terre, While Waiting for Maïboya
2:45 p.m. – Minakshi Carien: Kelly Sinnapah-Mary creates a journey where fables and sacred mythology intertwine
3:30 p.m. – Rito Joseph: Living Archives: Historical Continuity, Belonging, and the Making of Black Space Across the Atlantic
Thursday, November 12
Conference Day 3: Academy Building
9:30 a.m. – Sébastien Lefèvre: Bathing: infungible practices. Cultures – Resistance – Resilience. A transatlantic analysis of the African diaspora (Senegal/Brazil)
10:15 a.m. – Claudine Bonner: Caribbean Migration
11 a.m. – Dana Edmonds: Rhythm Travels Yet Leaves Traces: Remixing the Diaspora
Noon – Lunch break
2 p.m. – Frédéric Lefrançois: Restaging the Flesh. Body Politics, Infungible Practice, and the Comparative Aesthetics of Eddy Firmin, Renée Cox and Kara Walker
3 p.m. – Sobaz Benjamin: Bouladjel: To whom belongs the art work?
4 p.m. – Projection of Kanaval movie: academy building or at bell building
Friday, November 13
Conference Day 4: Academy Building /North Preston Community Centre
9:30 a.m. – Kim Cain: The Black Default
10:15 a.m. – Wendi Lee Wilson: Land and Identity
11 a.m. – Tonya Paris: Rooted Together: Intersections of Black and Mi’Kmaq Communities in Nova Scotia
Noon – Departure to North Preston Community Centre with the Narrative Bus (limited seats)
2 p.m. – Marie Christine Chivallon and Webster: The Plantation Museum: A form of memory that perpetuates violence: Marie Christine Chivallon interviewed by Webster 40 min video followed by questions
3:45 p.m. – Stanley Wany: Culture as a driving force for transmission
Saturday, November 14
Outreach and Workshops: Fountain Campus
9:30 – 11 a.m.: Workshop led by Dr. Eddy Firmin and Dr. Claudine Bonner.
Research presentations open to the public: