Session 1: Thursday, November 2, 8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

• Panel 1: Jackson Convention Complex 201/202 – Mentorship through Writing in the Black Female Intellectual Tradition
• Panel 2: Jackson Convention Complex 203/204 – Dear Sister: Black Literary Womanhood and Kinship
• Panel 3: Jackson Convention Complex 205/206 – Creative Reflections on Phillis Wheatley
• Panel 4: Jackson Convention Complex 207/208 – Interpreting Resistance and Ancestral Preservation of Afro-Latin Spiritual Systems through Visual Documentation

Session 2: Thursday, November 2, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

• Panel 5: Jackson Convention Complex 201/202 – Black Womxn Writing Communities
• Panel 6: Jackson Convention Complex 203/204 – Autobiography, Storytelling, Archives, and Power
• Panel 7: Jackson Convention Complex 205/206 – Texas Southern University Collective: African American Women Transforming the Houston Art Scene
• Panel 8: Jackson Convention Complex 207/208 – 50 Years Later: Reflections on the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival

Session 3: Thursday, November 2, 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

• Panel 9: Jackson Convention Complex 201/202 – “Wrong is Not my Name”: Practicing Archival Justice for Black Women and Girls in Creative Work and Scholarship
• Panel 10: Jackson Convention Complex 203/204 – Black Women’s Literary Friendships
• Panel 11: Jackson Convention Complex 205/206 – Working through the Federal Writers’ Project: Margaret Walker and Beyond
• Panel 12: Jackson Convention Complex 207/208 – The Afterlive(s) of Phillis Wheatley

Session 4: Friday, November 3, 8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

• Panel 13: Jackson Convention Complex 201/202 – Remembering Phillis Wheatley: Mothering Literary Traditions
• Panel 14: Jackson Convention Complex 203/204 – My ‘Tu’ Lips Quip: Critical Perspectives on Language in Black Women’s Writing
• Panel 15: Jackson Convention Complex 205/206 – And the Beat Goes On: Young Writers Write the Future
• Panel 16: Jackson Convention Complex 207/208 – The Living Legacy of Margaret Walker

Session 5: Friday, November 3, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

• Panel 17: Jackson Convention Complex 201/202 – Black Women Writers and Orators in the Nineteenth Century
• Panel 18: Jackson Convention Complex 203/204 – For Their People: 21st Century Creative Reinterpretations of Phillis Wheatley and Margaret Walker
• Panel 19: Jackson Convention Complex 205/206 – Original Poetry
• Panel 20: Jackson Convention Complex 207/208 – Phillis Wheatley Speaks Across the Ages: A Staged Reading

Session 6: Friday, November 3, 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

• Panel 21: Jackson Convention Complex 201/202 – Black Radio at HBCUs: Engaging and Sustaining Communities
• Panel 22: Jackson Convention Complex 203/204 – Teaching Wheatley in the University Classroom: A Conversation Among Poets and Scholars
• Panel 23: Jackson Convention Complex 205/206 – Original Creative Writing
• Panel 24: Jackson Convention Complex 207/208 – Writing In & Through the Legacy of Black Women Poets

For complete information on presentations and speakers please visit our concurrent sessions page.