January 2017

25 Wednesday
8:30 pm Sound & Vision: Listening Together to David Bowie & Prince
8:30 pm Blackstar Rising & The Purple Reign: Celebrating the Legacies of David Bowie and Prince
26 Thursday
4:30 pm Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973) followed by Q&A with D.A. Pennebaker (film & conversation)
9:00 pm “Everybody Still Wants to Fly”: Activism in Pop from Prince to Solange
27 Friday
8:45 am Welcome by Daphne A. Brooks–To the “Dearly Beloved,” “Gimme Your Hands ‘Cause You’re Wonderful”: On the Importance of (a Rock ‘n’ Roll) Commons
9:00 am “Take Me With U”: David Bowie, Prince & the Utopian Pop Universe (conference session)
10:30 am “Life On Mars?”: Spirituality & (Im)mortal Imaginaries in Bowie & Prince (conference session)
12:00 pm Highlights from the David Bowie Is Exhibition (roundtable conversation)
1:00 pm “Hang On to Yourself”: The Making of David Bowie Is (roundtable conversation)
2:15 pm “Around the World in a Day”: Traversing Cities & Borders in Bowie & Prince (conference session)
3:45 pm “Young Americans”: Prince, Bowie, Funk & the 1970s (conference session)
5:30 pm “Housequake”: A Critical Karaoke Tribute (conference session)
8:30 pm “Modern Love”: Bowie & Prince & the Art of Collaboration—In Conversation with Donny McCaslin and Sheila E. (roundtable conversation)
28 Saturday
9:00 am “Watch That Man”: Visual Bowie, Visual Prince—On Art & Film (conference session)
10:30 am “The Black Album”: Bowie, Prince & Sonic Experimentalism (conference session)
1:30 pm “Oh! You Pretty Things”: Theater, Performance & Spectacular Bowie & Prince (conference session)
3:00 pm “Rebirth of the Flesh”: David Bowie & Prince’s (Dis)identifications—On Race, Gender, & Sexuality (conference session)
8:00 pm TV On The Radio concert*