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VENUE
INHOTEP INSTITUTE CHARTER
HIGH
2101 West Godfrey Avenue
Philadelphia, PA
8:00
am Registration Throughout the Day
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8:30
– 8:55 am
Libation, Welcoming Remarks and Introductions
Dr.
Nathaniel Norment, Chair
African American Studies Department
Temple University
Dr. Salah Hassan,
Acting Director
Africana Studies and Research Center
Cornell University
Mwalimu Abdu Nanji,
President
African Heritage Studies Association
Dr. Levern Gyant,
Acting Vice President
African Heritage Studies Association
Erinn Ransom,
Graduate Student
Cornell University
Stephanie Yarbough,
Graduate Student
Temple University
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9:00
– 10:30 am
Opening Plenary Session A
Dr. Ron Daniels,
Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights, New
York City
The Role
of the Haitian Revolution and the Emergence of the African
Diaspora
Professor Sonia
Sanchez, African
American Studies Department and Women’s Studies Department,
Temple University
Reflections
on the Spoken Word in the African Diaspora
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Concurrent Panels
10:45 – 12:30
pm
Panel A-1
Pedagogical Strategies
in the African World
Alicia M. Sanabria,
Cornell University
AfricaRaiz,
i.e. AfricaRoots a Grassroots Activism Model For Socio-Cultural,
Educational, Political and Economic Community Development
in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Freya A. Rivers
& Ms. LaMailede Assata Moore, Sankofa Publishing Company
Challenging
the Genius: African Mathematical Genius
Henrique
Cunha Jr. & Marian Aquino Albuquerque,
Universidade Federal do Ceará-Brazil
Universidade Federal da Paraíba-Brazil
African Afro-Descendant
Images in Brazilian History and Education
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Panel A-2
Anthropocentric Nature
of African Religion
Charles
Verharen, Howard University
African Ontologies
and African Studies: A Case Study
Joe
Amoako, Delaware State University
Akan Customs and
Beliefs Through Libation Pouring
John
H. Teye, Delaware State University
The Historical and
Sociocultural Essence of the Ngmayem Festival of the Krobo
of Ghana
Simone
A. James Alexander, Seaton Hall University
The Return Journey:
Spiritual Regeneration and Rejuvenation in Marshall’s
Fiction
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Panel
A-3
Transnational Forms of Cultural, Political and Social
Resistance in the African World
Abdul
Karim Bangura, American University
Contending Linguistic
Metaphors in the Reparations Debate: Legitimate Call or
Emotional Symbolism
Kwame
Dixon, Syracuse University
Racial Discrimination
and Human Rights in Afro-Latin America: The Case of Black
Colombia
E. Boubacar
N’Diaye, Wooster College
Where is the Outrage:
The Black World’s Response to Slavery in Parts of Africa
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LUNCH
BREAK
12:30 – 1:30
pm
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Concurrent
Panels
1:45 – 3:15 pm
Panel B-1
African World Women and
Gender Constructs
Candace Katungi,
Cornell University
Black Women
and Their Maternal Bodies: The Quest for Control as a Liberation
Movement
Christel N. Temple,
University of Maryland
Male Mortality
in Dorothy West’s The Living Is Easy:Literature and
the Practical Study of the Black Man Experience
Nicole Ivy,
Cornell University
In- and Over-Visibility
in Afro-German Women’s Writings
Francesca M. Momplaisir,
New York University
A Novel of
One’s Own: African, African-American and Baribbean
Women Authors’ Re-visualizing of Black Female Characters
in Black Male-Authored Canonical Texts
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Panel B-2
Afrocentric Paradigm and The Readings of Literary
and Anthropological Texts
Jonathan
Fenderson, Cornell University
Afrocentricity Through
the Eyes of Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Season as an Antecedent
to the Afrocentric Theory
Todné Thomas,
Cornell University
Zora Neale Hurston
as Anthropologist? An Analysis of Tell My Horse and Its
Relationship to Anthropology, Feminism and Afrocentricity
David Jackson, II,
Cornell University
A Juxtaposition
of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
Khonso-Ra Wilson,
Temple University
An Afrocentric Analysis
of Mobutu’s Reign in Zaire
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Panel
B-3
Linguistic, Economic and Cultural Dimensions of Pan-Africanism
Abdul
Karim Bangura, American University
Pan-Africanists
Linguistic Presuppositions: Evidence from the African, African
American And Jamaican National Anthems
Emma
S. Etuk,
Africans and African-Ameicans:
Historical Reflections and Contemporary Realities –
The Way Forward
Elaine
Catlin,
Africanisms in Barbadian
Culture: Identifying the Other Half of the "twoness"
of Barbados Culture
Arkee
Hodges, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Resurgence of
Pan-Africanism: The African Union & the Black Fund,
Inc.
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Panel
B-4
Pan-Africanism in Action: Building Educational Institutions:
History and Education in Tanzania and the Diaspora: What Can
We Learn from Each Other?
Columbia
University Panel
Aleesha
Taylor, Columbia University
Community Participatin
in Educational Decision-Making in Tanzania
Dana Wright,
Harvard University
Community Organizing
in the African Diaspora
Seth
Markle, New York University
History of African
Americans in Tanzania
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Concurrent
Panels
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Panel
C-1
The Popular Culture and Pan-African Identities
Brian Wells,
Morehouse College
Leadership
and Pan-Africanism
John Marah,
SUNY Brockport
Chinwezui
and Okot p’Bitek: Literary expressions on Contemporary
African Culture
Marizilda dos Santos
Menezes & Henrique Cunha,
Universidade Estadual Paulista-UNESP
Universidade Federal do Ceará-Brazil
African Clothes
Ideology: Influence In Black Diaspora
Erinn Ransom,
Cornell University
Millennial
Race Matters: The Hip Hop Generation and the Construction
of 21st Century Pan-African Identities
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Panel C-2
The Afrocentric Paradigm: The Global Perspective
Ama
Mazama, Temple University
The Afrocentric
Paradigm: The Global Dimension
Saira
Raza, Cornell University
Re-linking and De-linking:
Prospects for New Alliances Between Africa, The Indian Subcontinent,
and Diasporans
Danielle
Terrazas Williams, Cornell University
The Afro-Mexican
Influence in Colonial Mexico
Adrian
Taylor, Howard University
Pan-Africanism and
Black Nationalism: Where to Go Next
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Panel C-3
Temple University Students’
Panel
Chair:
Adjoa Tiffany Thames,
Temple University
Latoyia Bailey, Temple University
Education and Afrocentricity
Nzingha
Gaffin, Temple University
Postcolonial Theory:
A Critique
Mukasa
Afrika, Temple University
African Education
Willie
Brown, Temple University
African Value System: The Concept of Beauty
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5:15
– 7:00 pm Reception
and Book Signing
(Recognition of the Elders)
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