Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York will host the
Fourth National Black Writers Conference in Brooklyn, NY on March 21-24.
The theme is BLACK LITERATURE IN THE 90'S: A RENAISSANCE TO END ALL
RENAISSANCES? A publicly accessible interactive version of the
conference, hosted by Arts Wire, will be available on the World Wide Web
at http://artsnet.heinz.cmu.edu/NBWC
Those who can't make it to Brooklyn can respond to these issues on this
World Wide Web version, implemented on Arts Wire's future virtual home --
the server at The Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University.
Keynote speakers for the conference are Paule Marshall and Amiri Baraka.
Marita Golden, Terry McMillan, Bebe Moore Campbell, Walter Mosley, Arthur
Flowers, Thulani Davis, and others will participate in a series of panels
that include:
*Choosing Exile: Black Writers from the Harlem
*Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement
*Choosing Exile: Black Writers from the Black Arts
*Movement to the Renaissance of the 1990's
*Presuming the Universality of the Black Experience
*Politically Correct in a Politically Incorrect World
*Black Literature: Who are the Readers?
*Black Literature: The Politics of Publishing
The Institute for African American Affairs at New York University will
host Paule Marshall's keynote address at NYU on March 22, 1996.
All panel discussions, Baraka's keynote address and Remarks by Walter
Mosley will be held at Medgar Evers College.
The web version includes all the panels listed above. It is free! Not
only will Web visitors be able to read reports and transcripts uploaded
to the Web during the face-to-face conference, but also they will be able
to participate in discussions of issues raised by the conference panels.
To join the conference, go to http://artsnet.heinz.cmu.edu/NBWC and
follow the registration procedure.
The face-to-face event received funding from the National Endowment for
the Humanities. The Web version was funded by the Reed Foundation and
implemented by Arts Wire's Beth Kanter, Barry Lasky and Tommer Peterson.
It uses a version of WebCaucus, a web-based interface, that was developed
for Arts Wire's Conferencing system.
Arts Wire is an online network of artists, arts workers, arts
organizations and arts funders
(http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/awfront.html) and a program of the
New York Foundation for the Arts
(http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/nyfa.html).
For information about the Fourth National Black Writers, contact: Dr.
Elizabeth Nunez, 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225; tel: (718)
270-5049
To participate in the web version of the conference, contact:
bwc@artsnet.heinz.cmu.edu