{"id":6408,"date":"2015-08-07T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2022-12-19T09:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:22:57","slug":"book-launches-annual-colloquium-concludes-for-olasope-oyelaran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/book-launches-annual-colloquium-concludes-for-olasope-oyelaran\/","title":{"rendered":"Book launches, annual colloquium concludes for Olasope Oyelaran"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6412\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/08\/lasope-Oyelaran1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6412 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/08\/lasope-Oyelaran1-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"Kalamazoo College Scholar-in-Residence Olasope O. Oyelaran\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/08\/lasope-Oyelaran1-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/08\/lasope-Oyelaran1-316x300.jpg 316w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/08\/lasope-Oyelaran1.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olasope Oyelaran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Within a 24-hour period, Kalamazoo College Scholar-in-Residence<strong> Olasope O. Oyelaran<\/strong>, Ph.D., will see his new book launch and his annual International Colloquium at the National Black Theatre Festival close for another year.<\/p>\n<p>Oyelaran, husband of K President Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, edited \u201cGem of the Ocean: Essays on August Wilson in the Black Diaspora\u201d with Kwame S. Dawes. The book launched August 7 at Winston-Salem State University where Oyelaran taught in the Department of English and Foreign Languages from 1990 to 2005.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993, Oyelaran founded the International Colloquium at the National Black Theatre Festival at Winston-Salem and remains its coordinator. The colloquium, which runs concurrently with the Festival, provides a forum for black-theater scholars and professionals from black cultures worldwide to examine real-life issues through the lens of theater. \u201cGem of the Ocean\u201d documents much of the 2007 Colloquium, which paid tribute to August Wilson and to festival founder Larry Leon Hamlin, who died that year.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 colloquium, titled \u201cSexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Black Theatre and Performance,\u201d concludes Aug. 8, one day following the book\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAugust Wilson was all about access in the theater,\u201d Oyelaran said in a recent Winston-Salem Journal article. \u201cIt is a coincidence that the book is coming out on Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within a 24-hour period, Kalamazoo College Scholar-in-Residence Olasope O. Oyelaran, Ph.D., will see his new book launch and his annual International Colloquium at the National Black Theatre Festival close for another year. Oyelaran, husband of K President Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, edited \u201cGem of the Ocean: Essays on August Wilson in the Black Diaspora\u201d with Kwame S. 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Oyelaran\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olasope Oyelaran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Within a 24-hour period, Kalamazoo College Scholar-in-Residence<strong> Olasope O. Oyelaran<\/strong>, Ph.D., will see his new book launch and his annual International Colloquium at the National Black Theatre Festival close for another year.<\/p>\n<p>Oyelaran, husband of K President Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, edited \u201cGem of the Ocean: Essays on August Wilson in the Black Diaspora\u201d with Kwame S. Dawes. The book launched August 7 at Winston-Salem State University where Oyelaran taught in the Department of English and Foreign Languages from 1990 to 2005.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993, Oyelaran founded the International Colloquium at the National Black Theatre Festival at Winston-Salem and remains its coordinator. The colloquium, which runs concurrently with the Festival, provides a forum for black-theater scholars and professionals from black cultures worldwide to examine real-life issues through the lens of theater. \u201cGem of the Ocean\u201d documents much of the 2007 Colloquium, which paid tribute to August Wilson and to festival founder Larry Leon Hamlin, who died that year.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 colloquium, titled \u201cSexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Black Theatre and Performance,\u201d concludes Aug. 8, one day following the book\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAugust Wilson was all about access in the theater,\u201d Oyelaran said in a recent Winston-Salem Journal article. \u201cIt is a coincidence that the book is coming out on Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18600,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions\/18600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}