Black Aesthetics and African Diasporic Culture

FAIN: EH-50395-13

Emory University (Atlanta, GA 30322-1018)
Pellom McDaniels III (Project Director: March 2013 to April 2015)

A three-week summer institute for twenty-five college and university faculty to explore the topic of Black aesthetics and cultural expressions.

The Interdisciplinary Project on African Diasporic Culture, Religion and Art proposes a three-week summer institute for college and university professors, scholars and intellectuals to engage in, study and collaborate around the topic of Black Aesthetics and Cultural Expressions. Participants of the summer institute will attend lectures, workshops and public performances led by celebrated historians, scholars, and artists in an effort to understand the meanings associated with black art, its production, and its ongoing relevance as a medium of liberation. Facilitated by six faculty members from Emory University, whose wide ranging subject expertise will address concepts and ideas grounded in traditional scholarship and folkways, the institute will engage in discussions related to the black aesthetic while seeking ways to broaden and revive interest in this area of scholarship for future research and intellectual inquiry.