Please join us as we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society’s founding through panels, an awards presentation at the African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS) reception, and a reading of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s award-winning play Peculiar Sam; or the Underground Railroad (1879).Our second panel, a roundtable, will reflect on the past decade and future of the Society and Hopkins studies, and we are excited to introduce a Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society Achievement Award at the AALCS reception.
Saturday, May 25, 12:40-2:00pm
Title: “Afrofuturism and Pauline Hopkins” (panel)
Chair: Eurie Dahn, The College of Saint Rose
1. “Afrofuturist Visions of Racial Uplift in the Speculative Fiction of Pauline Hopkins and W. E. B. Du Bois,” Ryan Schneider, Purdue University
2. “Sonic Futurity in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self,” Maleda A. Belilgne, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
3. “Generic Insurgence: Pauline E. Hopkins, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Speculative Fiction,” M. Giulia Fabi, University of Ferrara, Italy
Respondent: Shirley Moody-Turner, Penn State University
Saturday, May 25, 2:10-3:30pm
Title: Celebration of Pauline Hopkins Studies: Past, Present, and Future (roundtable)
Chair: Eurie Dahn, The College of Saint Rose
1. Hanna Wallinger, University of Salzburg
2. JoAnn Pavletich, University of Houston-Downtown
3. Brian Sweeney, The College of Saint Rose
4. Edlie L. Wong, University of Maryland
5. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
6. John Gruesser, Sam Houston State University
Business meeting to follow at 3:40pm.
Saturday, May 25, 6:30-7:30 PM
Presentation of the High School Essay on social justice award, Scholarship Award, and first ever Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society Achievement Award at the African American Literature and Culture Society Reception.
Saturday, May 25, 7:30-9:00 PM Essex Center
Reading of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s award-winning play Peculiar Sam; or the Underground Railroad (1879) presented by Arminda Thomas.
Arminda Thomas is Associate Artistic Director and resident dramaturg for the Going to the River Festival and Writers’ Unit and a dramaturg, director, writer, and musician with a passion for plays which give voice to diasporic experiences. Thomas holds an MFA in dramaturgy and script development from Columbia University.
