Robeson Conference News


Performances Cap Conference
Event featured three days of dynamic presentations and conversation about Paul Robeson’s history and development as an intellectual
Conference Featured on Television and Radio
John McCartney and Samuel Hay interviewed on Philadelphia PBS and NPR-affiliate WDIY
Plenary Session 1: Paul Von Blum Plenary Session 1: Paul Von Blum
“Paul Robeson: The Quintessential Public Intellectual”
Plenary Session 2: Nelson Peery Plenary Session 2: Nelson Peery
“Paul Robeson and the Cold War”
Plenary Session 3: Amiri Baraka Plenary Session 3: Amiri Baraka
“The Significance of Paul Robeson's Theater Productions”
Plenary Session 4: Harry R. Targ and John T. McCartney Plenary Session 4: Harry R. Targ and John T. McCartney
"Marx and Engels’ Influences on the Development of Robeson’s Intellect”
Plenary Session 5: Paul Robeson Jr. Plenary Session 5: Paul Robeson Jr.
Keynote talk: “Bearer of a Culture”
Plenary Session 6: James E. Lennertz Plenary Session 6: James E. Lennertz
“Paul Robeson’s Lifelong Brush with the Law”
Plenary Session 7: Lamont Yeakey Plenary Session 7: Lamont Yeakey
“Robeson: Forgotten Hero Who Laid the Foundation for a Movement”
Profile: Saul Williams Profile: Saul Williams
Actor, poet, and musician staged a spoken-word performance
Plenary Session 8: Charles Musser
“Robeson’s Research for His Roles in Films and Plays”
Plenary Session 9: Randall Robinson Plenary Session 9: Randall Robinson
Keynote talk
Plenary Session 10: Noel Beasley Plenary Session 10: Noel Beasley
“Robeson as Labor’s Champion”
Plenary Session 11: Ed Bullins, Samuel A. Hay, and Miller Lucky Jr. Plenary Session 11: Ed Bullins, Samuel A. Hay, and Miller Lucky Jr.
“The Significance of the Production History of Phillip Hayes Dean’s Paul Robeson”
Plenary Session 12: Floyd W. Hayes III Plenary Session 12: Floyd W. Hayes III
"The Cultural Politics of Robeson and Richard Wright: Theorizing the African Diaspora"
Plenary Session 13: Kofi Asare Opoku Plenary Session 13: Kofi Asare Opoku
“The Influence of Africa on Paul Robeson’s Life and Work”
Reader's Theater Production: Here I Stand
Actors Stephen McKinley Henderson, J.D. Hall, John Peak, and Ron Dortch will presesnt a reader's theater production of Paul Robeson's autobiography
Lafayette Concert Choir
The choir will perform Saturday, April 9, during a celebration of Paul Robeson’s autobiograhy Here I Stand, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
Profile: Jewell Robinson Profile: Jewell Robinson
The public program director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery is writer, producer, and narrator of “A Robeson Portrait,” which will be performed by Alvy Powell of the U.S. Army Chorus
Profile: Alvy Powell Profile: Alvy Powell
The acclaimed bass baritone of the U.S. Army Chorus will perform “A Robeson Portrait”
Robeson Film Festival
Films will be shown each day from noon to 4 p.m. in Limburg Theater, Farinon College Center. Some will be shown in their entirety; in other cases excerpts will be screened
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist Will be Screened March 8
Sidney Poitier narrates 29-minute film that includes rare footage
Conference Preview March 3
Scholars will discuss "The Significance of Paul Robeson" at brown bag
Profile: Conference Director John T. McCartney
Professor and head of government and law at Lafayette
Profile: Conference Co-organizer Samuel A. Hay
Visiting professor of government and law at Lafayette
Profile: Noel Beasley
International vice president of UNITE HERE
Profile: Sharon Gavin-Levy
Professor of English at Northampton Community College
Profile: Floyd W. Hayes III
Senior lecturer in political science and coordinator of undergraduate programs in Africana studies at The Johns Hopkins University
Profile: James E. Lennertz
Associate professor of government and law at Lafayette
Profile: Miller Lucky Jr.
The associate professor of theater at North Carolina A&T State University will speak on “The Significance of the Production History of Phillip Hayes Dean’s Paul Robeson”
Profile: Charles Musser
Professor of film and American studies at Yale University
Profile: Kofi Asare Opoku
Professor of religious studies at Lafayette
Profile: Nelson Peery
Veteran revolutionary organizer, founding member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, and award-winning author
Profile: Norman Roberts
Professor of communications/theater at Northampton Community College
Profile: Paul Robeson Jr.
Journalist, translator, lecturer, personal aide to Paul Robeson for more than 20 years, and owner and archivist of The Robeson Collection
Profile: Randall Robinson
Author, civil-rights activist, and founder and former president of TransAfrica
Profile: Harry R. Targ
Pofessor of political science and American studies at Purdue University
Profile: Paul Von Blum
Senior lecturer in African American studies at UCLA
Profile: Lamont Yeakey
Associate professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles
Conference on Paul Robeson
Lafayette will inaugurate a series of major conferences on the history and culture of civil rights and civil liberties with a three-day conference entitled "Paul Robeson: His History and Development as an Intellectual" on campus April 7-9.

 

 


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