Fellows Fall Speaker Series 12/4/24
November 12, 2024
The BMRC invites you to the final session of the 2024 Fellows' Fall Speaker Series, "Exploring Islam, Blackness, and Resistance Cinema in Chicagoland," on Wednesday, December 4 at 12:00 p.m. CT.
Dr. Kam Copeland is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University. This presentation focuses on Dr. Copeland's archival findings during his summer 2024 BMRC fellowship in Chicago. His research is part of a larger project that maps a representational history of U.S. Black American Muslims in cinema. This project focuses on how Black Muslims used film technology—including home video, public access television, independent film, and public affairs television—to resist dominant representations of Black Muslimness in the U.S. media.
The discussant is Dr. Michelle Y. Gordon, a 2010 BMRC fellow and an Associate Teaching Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. Dr. Gordon's scholarship focuses on 19th and 20th-century American literature and print culture; her current project explores a radical literary and cultural history of Black Chicago, from the Great Depression through the rise of the Black Power era.