Full Panel
Panelists
Simone Browne, Mark Campbell, Carla Moore, Katherine McKittrick
Biographies
Simone Browne is Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin with the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. She teaches and researches surveillance studies, biometrics, airport protocol, popular culture, social media and black diaspora studies. Simone has been a member of HASTAC’s Steering Committee since 2008.
Mark Campbell is the Improvisation, Community and Social Practice/SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of Guelph. Mark’s research interests include Afrodiasporic theory and culture, Canadian hip hop cultures, Afrosonic innovations and youth community development projects.
Carla Moore is a theatre geek/media practitioner/girl/woman/gender studies enthusiast from the Jamaican countryside with a B.A. Hons in Media and Communication, and minor in Cultural Studies, from the University of the West Indies, Mona. She is currently pursuing graduate studies at Queen’s University.
Katherine McKittrick is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s University. She teaches and research in the areas of black studies, critical race studies, and cultural geographies, with an emphasis on expressive cultures (music, literature, poetry).
Panel Description
This Lightening Panel will focus specifically on how narratives of blackness–poems, songs, performances, archives–can be conceptualized as technology. The session will couple the practical purposes of “technology”–using machines, systems, and tools to solve a problem–with black creative practices in order to suggest that black narratives, as technological interventions, provide the context to imagine the present anew. The panelists will develop the following themes: slave technologies; black poetics; dancehall; remix and turntablism.