<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hello Everyone,<div><br></div><div>Here’s a reminder about Dr. Michael Myers II’s visit and talk this Wednesday,<font face="arial, sans-serif"> January 28 in HMNSS 2212. The talk will begin at 3pm. </font><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">If you haven't done so, please sign up for a meeting time and/or meal </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NceAchXaQYIP87i3llwDR5P7_2vqHtJGALmKER75Ix4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Bio</font></b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Michael J. Myers II is from Buffalo, New York. Michael received his Ph.D. from the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and is currently a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Black Study at the University of California, Riverside. Go Bills!<i><br></i><br></font><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Title & Abstract</font></b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="arial, sans-serif">An Apple Butter Party Hosted by Runaway Slaves for Runaway Slaves: Towards an Insurrectionary Black Poetics</font></p></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#000000">Dr. Michael J. Myers II will discuss the Christiana Rebellion (Christiana, PA) of 1851 as an elaboration of a praxis of black poetics. This revolt precipitated the largest simultaneous indictment for treason in the history of the United States. Dr. Myers II addresses William Parker’s narrative, The Freedman’s Story in Two Parts, which provides a firsthand account of the violent revolt from the perspective of a runaway slave. Flowing with the work of Sylvia Wynter, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, and Katherine McKittrick, Dr. Myers II queries how might we tell stories of violent black rebellion that do not reproduce and replicate the same telos of slavery ⟶ death? Against the methods of containment that typically ensnare its propitious possibilities, this presentation is an experiment in dereliction that asks: What if violent black rebellion could be read, studied, and narratively articulated to illustrate the work – that is, the poetics – of violent black rebellion itself?</font></span></p></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="color: black;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><img id="<f_mkr30ti31>" src="cid:C0B10E1C-5CF6-4748-9DD2-D27383291D35" alt="Michael Myers II.png" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment" class="Apple-web-attachment Apple-edge-to-edge-visual-media Singleton" style="opacity: 1;">_______________________________________________<br><div>
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