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Inspired by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson's concept of “plasticity”—the notion that blackness may be thought as that which is produced as interstitial to and generative of the givenness of form itself—the objective of this gathering is to reconsider dominant interpretative regimes that cohere around common modalities of representation when worked through blackness and black studies. Another way of thinking of this gathering is as a reconsideration of formalism in light of Jackson's concept of black plasticity.

This colloquium will gather three scholars to think about and across three genres of representation—image, text, sound—to explore the matter of form. What insights might black engagements with these forms yield for the endurance, exhaustion, or even integrity of these forms as we know them and/or as we've come to know through them? How might we consider what becomes of an image, a text, or a sound when blackened?

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  • Kimberly Juanita Brown, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life, Dartmouth College.
  • Will Johnson, doctoral candidate in Music and Multimedia Composition, Brown University.
  • Kevin Quashie, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in English, Brown University.
  • Kristen Maye, Clara Willis Phillips Assistant Professor of English, Mount Holyoke College.

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