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The American Society for Aesthetics has awarded a grant of $5,000 to Mississippi State University for its project "Philosophy, Race and the Arts in Nashville Ballet's Lucy Negro Redux." The conference, to be held March 31-April 2, 2023,
is directed by Kristin Boyce, Associate Professor of Philosophy, MSU. Funding to support the conference is also being provided by the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Department of African-American Studies at MSU, and the Department
of Philosophy and the Shackouls Honors College at MSU.
The conference is organized around Nashville Ballet's Lucy Negro Redux, created in 2019 and based on a collection of poems by Nashville-based poet, Caroline Randall Williams. The ballet is a collaboration btween choreographer
and Nashville Ballet artistic director, Paul Vasterling, Williams, and composer and musician, Rhiannon Giddens. It imaginatively explores the hypothesis that the "dark lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets was a woman of African descent.
The conference brings together artists who created the piece with both senior and junior scholars in academic fields important to understanding the work. The entire conference will be free and open to the public, but an RSVP is greatly appreciated: lucyconference@gmail.com Parking on campus is free on Saturday. For patrons interested in Friday events, contact kb2152@msstate.edu for a free parking pass.
Program Schedule: PDF (3/14/2023)
Confirmed artists and scholars: PDF Word (3/14/2023)
CFP for undergraduate students PDF (2/17/2023)
Suggested Hotels:
The Courtyard Marriott MSU at the Mill Conference Center
Hotel Chester
Closest Airport: GTR
https://www.gtra.com A
shuttle runs from GTR to Starkville (including stops at the Courtyard Marriott and near Hotel Chester)
Ground transportation: local free shuttle with stops on campus and in various parts of Starkville https://www.smart.msstate.edu/schedule-and-routes
Recommended restaurants for dinner and or drinks in Starkville:
Searchable campus map:
https://map.msstate.edu/?id=233#!ct/45116,8935,7602,7362,7257,7090,7088,5465,2402,2401,2400,2399,2398,2397,2396?s/
The ballet played to sold-out audiences in Nashville and has toured to national acclaim. It was filmed for broadcast on PBS's Great Performances that aired on September 16 and can be streamed now on the PBS web site.
A book about the production is also available, Lucy Negro Redux: The Bard, A Book, and A Ballet.
As more information becomes available, it will be posted here.
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