WEDNESDAY MARCH 22

ENG 222 WEDNESDAY MARCH 22 PROF. O’CONNELL

BELOW IS THE SCHEDULE OF THE CONFERENCE. AS I STATED IN CLASS, WRITE A ONE PAGE REPORT FOR WHICHEVER PART YOU ATTEND FOR EXTRA CREDIT.

Wednesday, March 22, Siegler Hall.

10 a.m. Filling History’s Gaps: Screening and discussion of the 2017 film The Black Eagle of Harlem, a film produced, directed and written by Essex Professor William Tooma on the life of aviation pioneer Co. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian. Also participating in the discussion will be Dr. Akil Kokayi Khalfani, director of the College’s Africana Institute who also appears in the film, and Essex student Najee R. Smith.

11:30 a.m. Reimagining Revolution: “Revolution through the Lens of the Humanities: Literature, Art and Music 1800s to the Present,” presented by Professor Donna Hill of Medger Evers College, City University of New York. “The World Turned Upside Down,” presented by Professor Elizabeth Sanderson of Trinity Christian College in Illinois. “The Kinetics of Our Discontent” Toward a History of Social Arrest,” presented by Dr. Mehmet Dosemeci of Bucknell University

1 p.m. Shen Yun Performing Arts presents “A Journey to China’s 5,000 Year Old Civilization.”   Shen Yun Performing Arts is a New York-based troupe which performs classical Chinese dance. This presentation will feature some of the troupe’s dancers.