{"583990":{"#nid":"583990","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Jacobs Presents at Celebrating African American Literature and Language Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBethany Jacobs, a postdoctoral Brittain Fellow in the Ivan Allen College \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E, presented at the Celebrating African American Literature and Language (CAALL) conference at Penn State University on October 28 and 29, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJacobs presented her paper, \u0026ldquo;Playing with Authenticity in the Afrofuturist Albums of Janelle Mon\u0026aacute;e,\u0026rdquo; and discussed her success teaching Mon\u0026aacute;e\u0026rsquo;s albums in her black science fiction course at Georgia Tech. Her students have placed Mon\u0026aacute;e in conversation with the Georgia Tech Science Fiction Archives, campus events like \u0026ldquo;Afrofuturism and Environmental Justice,\u0026rdquo; and community events like the Atlanta Sci-Fi Film Festival. In her paper, Jacobs argued that Mon\u0026aacute;e\u0026rsquo;s albums compel a nuanced exploration of how the past, present, and future converge in black science fiction. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 2016 CAALL conference was organized by Penn State\u0026rsquo;s Africana Research Center, and it focused on the long tradition of \u0026ldquo;Race and Resistance\u0026rdquo; in African-American literature and language practices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about the conference here: http:\/\/arc.psu.edu\/caal2016\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBethany Jacobs, a postdoctoral Brittain Fellow in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication, presented at the Celebrating African American Literature and Language (CAALL) conference at Penn State University on October 28 and 29, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" Bethany Jacobs, a postdoctoral Brittain Fellow in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication, presented at the Celebrating African American Literature and Language (CAALL) conference at Penn State University."}],"uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2016-11-17 15:36:41","changed_gmt":"2016-11-17 15:37:01","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583857":{"id":"583857","type":"image","title":"Dr. Bethany Jacobs","body":null,"created":"1479150826","gmt_created":"2016-11-14 19:13:46","changed":"1479150826","gmt_changed":"2016-11-14 19:13:46","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222587","name":"Z.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Z_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Z_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":20157,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Z_0.jpg?itok=GVFq_Xnr"}}},"media_ids":["583857"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/c0136c26-7ab1-5ed5-af18-c0fa46c21f47","title":"Bethany Jacobs Biography"},{"url":"http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu","title":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"url":"http:\/\/arc.psu.edu\/caal2016","title":"Celebrating African American Literature and Language (CAALL) 2016"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172742","name":"Janelle Monae"},{"id":"172743","name":"Africana Research Center"},{"id":"61831","name":"Afrofuturism"},{"id":"23691","name":"Black Science Fiction"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}