17th Annual Creative Arts & Scholarly Engagement (CASE) Festival

Schedule of Events

Friday, April 14
The Future of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State
A Feasibility Study
Sharice McCain, Marlin King and Christina Berry, NEOO Partners
Robert Luckett, MWC Director
JSU Student Center Theater
2:00 p.m. to 2:50 p.m.

The Legacy of Margaret Walker
Dr. Maryemma Graham and Dr. Carolyn Denard
Keynote Conversation
Ayer Hall
3:00 p.m. to 4:20 p.m.

Margaret Walker Center Reception
Ayer Hall
4:30 p.m. until

Saturday, April 15
Registration and Q&A: Continental Breakfast
JSU Student Center
8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

Concurrent Session I
9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Panel 1: Written
JSU Student Center room 3250
9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Southern Girls: Articulating Radical Black Female Pleasure & Sweetness
Kaelyn Conley, Jackson State University

On My Side of Town
Brittany Wilson, Millsaps College

Finding My Seat at the Table: Reflections on the Black Experience in the American South
LaAsia Harper, Jackson State University

Panel 2: Visual Arts, Poetry, Spoken Word
Margaret Walker Center, Ayer Hall Gallery
9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

A Sister’s Love (Ode to My Brothers)
Chioma Ajuonuma, Jackson State University

Her Home Place
Jai Williams, University of Mississippi

Remembered
The Last King
Shelia Malone, Jackson State University

Concurrent Session II
10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

Panel 3: Visual Arts, Poetry, Spoken Word

Harlem
LaParis Harper, Jackson State University

Art in the Wind
LaAsia Harper, Jackson State University

Silent Slaughter
Sharon
Bare as Line
Michael Montgomery, Millsaps College

Panel 4: Written
JSU Student Center room 3250
10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

Benchmarking the Legacy of a Servant Leader Scholar
Akinola Gonzalez, Jackson State University

Breaking the Mold: Conversations Among Generations of Black Women Writers
Jeremy McDuffey, Jackson State University

A Way Out
Sondra Lee-Bell, Jackson State University

Panel 5: Written
JSU Student Center room 3210
10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

When the World Says You Are Not Enough: A Critical Analysis
of the Intersection between Human Desire and Race
Lauren Washington, Jackson State University

Breaking Boundaries: The Artistic Legacy of the Black South
Xavien Mitchell, Jackson State University

Mississippi Zion: The Struggle for Liberation in Attala County, 1865-1915
Dr. E. Howard Ashford, SUNY Oneonta
Assistant Professor of History, Africana, and LatinX Studies
Interim Director, Center for Racial Justice and Inclusive Excellence
Luncheon and Talk
JSU Student Center Ballroom
12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.

Concurrent Session III
1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.

Panel 6: Visual Arts
Johnson Hall Art Gallery
1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.

Distant Relatives
Lee Payton, Jackson State University

Pointillism
Jonathan McDonald, Jackson State University

The Road Less Traveled
“Cockril”
“Learning By Myself”
“Isolated By Myself”
Kimberley Moten, Delta State University

Panel 7: Poetry, Spoken Word
Hybrid: JSU Student Center room 3250 & Zoom
https://jacksonstateu.zoom.us/j/82080366870?pwd=MVdRNlpYM2w3VmtqQ3Rqb0trUUtYUT09 
1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.

Email Unsent: Draft
I am Human, Not a Product
Stimming in Spades
Printing Prep Work
Michael Montgomery, Millsaps College

Grandmother on Motherhood
Grandmother on Menfolk
Grandmother on Going to Church
Grandmother on Country Eatin
Michelle Rankins, Jackson State University

In the Dark
MaKenna Collins, Jackson State University

Margaret Walker, Black Women Writers,
and the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival
Dr. Maryemma Graham, Author, The House Where My Soul Lives, and
Distinguished Professor of English, University of Kansas
Introduction by Dr. Carolyn Brown
$1,000 Margaret Walker Award
$500 Doris Derby Visual Arts and Social Justice Award
JSU Student Center Theater
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.