SATURDAY, APRIL 14 - Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office

9:30am Welcome Notes

9:45-11:30am Panel 1 - Disputes and Dialectics
The Dialectics of Black Nationalism - Albert Scharenberg (RLS–NYC)
From Black Reconstruction to Black Liberation: The Radicalization of William Edward Burghardt DuBois, 1931-1961 - Charisse Burden-Stelly (Carleton College)
C.L.R. James and the Hidden Disputes within the Black Radical Tradition - Matthew Quest (Arkansas)
“Black Radical Knowledge Production in the Academy: Africana Existentialism v. Afropessimism” - LaRose T. Parris (LaGuardia Community College)

11:45-1:00pm Panel 2 - Thought Leaders of Black Radicalism
Gendering the Black Radical Tradition: Grace P. Campbell’s Role in the Formation of a Radical Feminist Tradition in African American Intellectual Culture - Lydia Lindsey (North Carolina Central University)
“My Kind of Communist”: Marxism, Nationalism, and Richard Wright’s Radical Imagination - Shana A. Russel (Rutgers University)
Claudia Jones: Recentering Communism on Black Women’s Issues - Gregory Bekhtari (Paris Nanterre University, France)

1:00-2:00pm Lunch Break

2:00-3:45pm Panel 3 - The “Black Belt” Nation
Early Black Socialists and Radical Internationalism in the United States, 1850-1919 - Charles Holm (University of Texas at Austin)
“Black Belt Nation”: Populism, Labor and The Growth of Radicalism within the African American Civil Rights Movement, 1870-1935 - Willie Mack (SNHU)
“The Communist International and the Fight Against Black Oppression in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s” - Jacob A. Zumoff (New Jersey City University)
Hosea Hudson and African American Communism in the “Black Belt” - Frank Jacob (Queensborough Community College)

4:00-5:15pm Panel 4 - Black Radicals, Socialism, and Communism
Marvel Cooke, Black Feminist Beacon of Conduct in the Depression Era - Laura Hapke (Pace University)
This City in Itself: Harlem’s Socialists and the Challenge to New Deal Liberalism - Robin Dearmon Muhammad (Ohio University)
“Reds, Rights, and Firing Lines”: The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Anti-Communist Crusade 1936-1949 - David C. Rothmund (College of Charleston)

5:30-6:15pm Roundtable - Black Radicalism in Arts, Literature, and Press
Today’s role of Black Radicalism in arts, literature, and press.
The Racial Imaginary Institute: An Ivory Tower on the Front Line of Racial Struggle - Yulia Tikhonova (St. John’s University)
Harlem Renaissance as Dialectical Gambit of Black Radicalism - A. Shahid Stover (Brotherwise Dispatch)
The Printed Legacy of the Black Liberation Movement - Brad Duncan (University of Pennsylvania, AFSCME Local 590)
Fascination and Failure: Communist Ideas, the Black Nationalists Movement, and Jazz in 1960s and 1970s America - Rüdiger Ritter (TU Chemnitz, Germany)

6:15pm Dinner

6:45-7:15pm Worker Writers School
Poetry Presentations

SUNDAY, APRIL 15 - The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

9:30-10:00am Interludium: Fifty Years after Martin Luther King Jr.
Religion and Black Radicalism - Michael Honey (University of Washington Tacoma) (TBC)

10:00-11:15am Panel 5 - The Legacy of the Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party in Chicago - Ethan Young (Left Labor Project)
“To Build the World Anew: Black Anti-imperialism in the era of Black Power” - Robyn C. Spencer (Lehman College)
The Film Reviews of the Black Panther Party - Kazembe Balagun (RLS–NYC)

11:30-12:45pm Panel 6 - The International Dimensions of Black Radicalism
Black, Dutch & Radical: exploring the politics of black Dutch radicals - Mitch Esasjas (Black Archives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Making Differences Work and Fight: The Black Movement(s) in Germany - Folashade Ajayi and Tahir Della (Initiative Black People in Germany)
“Black Fire” – Conceptualizations of Black Liberation and engaged views of African and Black aesthetics in the USA and South Africa - Lena Dallywater (Graduate School “Global and Area Studies” at the
Research Academy Leipzig, Germany)

12:45pm Closing Remarks