Please join us! Friday, 16 September 2016

This year, 2016, Small Axe turns twenty years old. And this year too, our fiftieth issue was published. We are not big on celebrations, it is true, but to mark the occasion we are organizing a roundtable conversation around the theme “What Is Journal Work?” We have invited editors (or founders) of notable journal platforms to help us think about the distinctive work (in all its dimensions) of journals in intellectual and artistic innovation and intervention.

The afternoon will unfold in two parts. In part one we will have a roundtable conversation. In part two we will have a number of people speak about the contribution of Small Axe over the twenty years of its existence. We hope that you will join us on Friday, 16 September 2016 from 1:00 to 6:30pm at Sulzberger Parlor, 3^rd floor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College. Barnard Hall is located immediately upon entering through the main gate of the Barnard College campus at Broadway and 117th Street. 

Part 1: Roundtable Program

What is Journal Work? A conversation
1:00-1:30pm:
Welcome: Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, managing editor, Small Axe
Opening Remarks: David Scott, Small Axe
1:30-3:30pm: Roundtable, What is Journal Work? 
Moderator: Vanessa Agard-Jones, Small Axe, Souls
Louis Chude-Sokei, The Black Scholar
Lowell Fiet, Sargasso
Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil, sx: archipelagos
Sean Jacobs, Africa is a Country
Kelly Baker Josephs, sx salon
Patricia Saunders, Anthurium
Ashwani Sharma, darkmatter
Kuan-Hsing Chen, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements 
 

Part 2: Small Axe Celebration
3:45-5:15pm
Moderator: Nijah Cunningham, coordinator, Small Axe Project
Hazel Carby, Yale University
Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University, Latino Studies Journal
Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University  

5:20pm Closing remarks: David Scott

5:30-6:30pm: Reception

Kelly Baker Josephs, founder and editor of sx salon, has been invited to join the faculty at Williams College as Sterling Brown '22 Visiting Professor of Africana Studies.

Here is a description of this honor from the Williams College Africana Studies website:

"Established by gifts raised in a campaign led by members of the Williams Black Alumni Network, this professorship is named after one of America’s most influential poets and scholars, who was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Williams from 1918-1922. Each year, a distinguished visitor is invited to campus for one semester to teach an undergraduate course, to deliver a series of lectures open to the public, to work with students individually, and to contribute to the awareness and growth of the Williams community. The Sterling Brown visiting professors are encouraged to play an active part in campus life. Past recipients include Greg Tate, Kimberly Springer, Manning Marable, Carrie Mae Weems, Kathy A. Perkins, Cornel West, and many more prestigious scholars and artists." 

This latest honor comes as Josephs embarks on her current book project, "Caribbean Articulations: Storytelling in a Digital Age," which explores the intersections between new technologies and Caribbean cultural production. In addition to her long tenure as a member of the Small Axe Project (first as managing editor of Small Axe before founding the sx salon literary platform), Josephs also manages The Caribbean Commons.

Kelly Baker Josephs, founder and editor of sx salon, has been invited to join the faculty at Williams College as Sterling Brown '22 Visiting Professor of Africana Studies.

Here is a description of this honor from the Williams College Africana Studies website:

"Established by gifts raised in a campaign led by members of the Williams Black Alumni Network, this professorship is named after one of America’s most influential poets and scholars, who was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Williams from 1918-1922. Each year, a distinguished visitor is invited to campus for one semester to teach an undergraduate course, to deliver a series of lectures open to the public, to work with students individually, and to contribute to the awareness and growth of the Williams community. The Sterling Brown visiting professors are encouraged to play an active part in campus life. Past recipients include Greg Tate, Kimberly Springer, Manning Marable, Carrie Mae Weems, Kathy A. Perkins, Cornel West, and many more prestigious scholars and artists." 

This latest honor comes as Josephs embarks on her current book project, "Caribbean Articulations: Storytelling in a Digital Age," which explores the intersections between new technologies and Caribbean cultural production. In addition to her long tenure as a member of the Small Axe Project (first as managing editor of Small Axe before founding the sx salon literary platform), Josephs also manages The Caribbean Commons.