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27th Annual Black Women's Conference Part 2 (April 15, 2022)

27th Annual Black Women’s Conference:

Appalachian Mountains, Digital Valleys, and Everything in Between: Black Feminist Subjectivities


April 15, 2022

Part 2 featuring:

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