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27th Annual Black Women’s Conference:
Appalachian Mountains, Digital Valleys, and Everything in Between: Black Feminist Subjectivities
April 15, 2022

10-10:15 AM:  Welcome
Anastasia C. Curwood, Director, CIBS and AAAS

10:15-11:45AM:  Covid, Clapbacks, and Curation:  Blackness in the Digital Era
Kim Gallon, Purdue University,
Regina Hamilton, UK,
Kishonna Gray, UK
Moderated by TBD

12:30-1:45PM: Appalachia Ain’t White: Locating Black Feminists in the Region
Jillean McCommons, University of Virginia
Enkeshi El-Amin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 
Moderated by Kishonna Gray, UK

2:00-3:15PM Reading Buy Black: An Author and Critics Conversation
LaKisha Simmons, University of Michigan
Oneka LaBennett, University of Southern California
Aria Halliday, UK
Moderated by DaMaris Hill, UK

3:30-4:30PM:  Keynote: Nazera Wright:  Digital Gi(rl)s: Mapping Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century
Moderated by Aria Halliday, UK

4:30-4:45PM:  Wrap Up
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