I guess it depends on who was selected to be on the panel discussion. I would only be interested to attend if the panel consisted of people who have published peer-reviewed research on representations of blackface in the U.S. and/or Europe. I am not at all interested in hearing more opinions from rabid locals whose white hegemony has been discomfited by Professor Schurtz having to explain to university administrators and students of color why she involved her university students in her Halloween performance of blackface.