Malcolm X: 50 Years Later Conference Overview
February 17 - 19, 2015
Tuesday, February 17
Conference Check-in
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
(Zoellner Arts Center (ZAC) Lobby)
Welcoming Remarks *
1:15 p.m.
Donald Hall, Dean of College of
Arts & Sciences
(ZAC Baker Hall)
Speaker - Saladin Ambar *
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
"Taking Malcolm X Seriously:
A View Beyond the Icon"
(ZAC Baker Hall)
Break (2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.)
Speaker - Omid Safi *
2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
"America between a Dream and a
Nightmare: America, Islam, and
the Convergence of Martin
and Malcolm"
(ZAC Baker Hall)
Break (3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Panel - Malcolm X and Islam *
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Omid Safi, Hisham Aidi and
Rob Rozehnal
(ZAC Baker Hall)
Opening Reception
5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.
(ZAC Main Gallery, Lower Level)
by invite/registation only
Keynote Speaker - Michael Eric Dyson with
James Peterson *
7:00 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
"Malcolm X's Influence: 50 Years"
(ZAC Baker Hall) Free and open to the public.
No registration required.
Wednesday, February 18
Thursday, February 19
Conference Check-in
Conference Check-in
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (University Center Room 308)
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (University Center Room 308)
Conference Paper Presentations
Conference Paper Presentations
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (University Center Room 303)
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (University Center Room 303)
Zaheer Ali
Garrett Felber
Abdul Akbar
Maytha Alhassen
Amy Ongiri
Ted Morgan
Usame Tunagur
Wilfredo Gomez
"Muslim Lands in this
"A Bandung
Muhammed
"The Ummic
"Who Taught You to
"From Satan to
"A Traitor Caught "X's World: Hip-Hop's
Country: The Nation of
Conference in
"Malcolm X - His Imperative: Appraising
Hate Yourself?
Commodity: The
Between Martin
Treatment of Malcolm
Islam's African-Asian
Harlem: The
Life, His Impact, the Influence of Islamic
Malcolm X, Visual
Malcolm X of Mass
and Malcolm"
X's Legacy"
Bazaars and the Creation Nation of Islam 50 Years After His
Culture and the
Media Culture"
Humanism on
of Muslim Spaces in NYC, and 1950's AfroAssassination"
Challenge of the Black
Malcolm's Pro1957-1963"
Arab Solidarity"
Aesthetic"
Palestine Politics"
Break (10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.)
Conference Paper Presentations
10:45a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (University Center Room 303)
Hisham Aidi
"Du Bois, Ghana and
Cairo Jazz: The GeoPolitics of Malcolm X"
Katie Merriman
Kwame Essien
"Malcolm's Lost "Malcolm X: The
Son: Muhammad
(Un) Wanted
Ali's Muslim
Guest in Ghana"
Internationalism in
the 1960's"
Break (10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.)
Conference Paper Presentations
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. (University Center Room 303)
Darius Williams and Kashi
Johnson
Samina Ali
Shermaine Jones
Roberta Meek
"Malcolm X's Reading "From the Prophet "Racist Rizzo Rides "X-Cerpts: Channeling
the Black Arts Movement
of Milton's Paradise
Himself: The
Again: The
Lost: Subversive Acts
Existential
November 17,
in Celebration of the
of Social Activism in Dimensions of Black 1967 Philadelphia Lessons, Life, and Legacy
Western Canonical
Rage in Malcolm X's
Police Riot"
of Malcolm X"
Literature"
Autiobiography"
Lunch Break (12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.)
Speaker - Rosa Alicia Clemente *
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
"Malcolm X and the Meaning of Activism for Today"
(ZAC Baker Hall)
Break (2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.)
Speaker - Pap Ndiaye *
2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
"Malcolm X and Paris: Looking Back, Looking Forward"
(ZAC Baker Hall)
Lunch Break (12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.)
Speaker - Carolyn Rouse *
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
“Reading Malcolm X from the Caves of Tora Bora: Reinterpreting a Global
Icon at the End of History”
(Sinclair Auditorium)
Break (2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.)
Panel - Reflections with Lehigh Faculty *
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saladin Ambar, James Peterson, Monica Miller and Amardeep Singh
Break (3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Speaker - Tariq Ali *
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
“Radicalism in the 21st Century: How has the Left Coped with the Triumph of Capital in
the Last Decades of the Last Century?”
(ZAC Baker Hall)
Break (5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.)
Panel - International Perspectives *
5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Pap Ndiaye, Tariq Ali, Saladin Ambar, and Amardeep Singh
(ZAC Baker Hall)
(Sinclair Auditorium)
Closing Reception
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
(ZAC Main Gallery, Lower Level)
by invite/registation only
Zoellner Arts Center Notations Event: Leland Gantt
"Rhapsody in Black"
7:30 p.m.
(ZAC Baker Hall)
Free and open to the public. No registration required
* indicates events to be streamed live at https://malcolmx.cas2.lehigh.edu/
All events subject to change