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Symposium: ”‘A Past that Has Yet To Be Done‘: Janelle Monáe and Black Performance Archives” and “‘No tits in the pits!’: Women Decision Makers in Motorsports in the United States”
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Mulva Library, First Floor
100 Grant Street, De Pere, WI 54115, United States
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Lauren Eriks Cline (English) presents "A Past that Has Yet To Be Done": Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer and Black Performance Archives
This presentation will draw from the work of scholars in Black Studies like Saidiya Hartman and Daphne Brooks to explore the historiographical questions involved in studying Black performance in the context of what Hartman calls "the afterlife of property." After examining the forms these questions take in the archives of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century, I will turn to Janelle Monáe's 2018 emotionpicture Dirty Computer to suggest some of the ways contemporary Black performers have engaged with this unfinished, ongoing state of emergency for queer Black life.
Alexia Lopes (Business Administration) presents "No tits in the pits!" An exploratory analysis of the challenges and coping mechanisms experienced by women decision makers in motorsports in the United States
Despite the changing landscape, legal mandates, social pressure, and newer generations’ demand for more focus on diversity in sports (Cunningham et al., 2021), the management side of this industry in the United States has yet to see substantial change. In this presentation, the focus will be on the experiences of women working on the management side U.S. motorsports. The data will shed light on the challenges women encounter throughout their careers in this highly male-dominated industry, and the coping mechanisms they use to navigate and overcome those.