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VENUE
HOLIDAY INN HOTEL
HISTORIC DISTRICT
400 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA
(215) 923-8660
ASHSA HOSPITABLITY SUIT
1:00 – 3:00 pm REGISTRATION
1:00 - 3:00 pm AHSA Executive Board Meeting
3:15 – 6:00 pm AHSA Retreat
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)
VENUE
HOLIDAY INN HOTEL
400 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA
7:45 – 9:15 am Business
Meeting
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Plenary Session B
9:30 – 11:45 am
The Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora and Its Relation to Africa:
The Historical Dimension
Dr. Molefi Asante
Professor, African American Studies, Temple University
Honorable Elombe Brath
Chair, Patrice Lumumba Coalition
Dr. William Nelson
Professor, Africana Studies & Political Science, Ohio State
University
Viola Plummer
Coordinator, Million for Reparations
Dr. Teshale Tibebu
Professor, History, Temple University
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Award
Luncheon
12:00 – 2:00 pm
Speaker: Dr.
Maulana Karenga
Professor, Black Studies
California State University- Long Beach
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Plenary
Session C
2:15 – 4:00 pm
The Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora and Its Relation to Africa:
The Aesthetic/Gender/Resistance Dimensions
Dr.
N’Dri Assie-Lumumba
Professor, Africana Studies, Cornell University
Dr.
Benjamin Swinson
Professor Emeritus, Africana History, Howard University
Dr.
Jacqueline Wade
Professor, Africana Studies & Former Director of Cultural
Center, Austin Peay University
Dr.
Barbra Wheeler
Professor, Africana Studies, Keen CollegePlenary
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Session
D
4:15 – 6:15 pm
The Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora and Its Relation to Africa:
The Political Dimension
Kimberlé
Crenshaw, Esq.
Attorney at Law & Professor of Law
Columbia University & University of California-Los Angeles
Dr.
Leonard Jefferies
Professor, African American Studies, City University of New York
Dr.
James Turner,
Professor, Africana Studies & Public Policy, Cornell University
Roger
S.Wareham, Esq.
Attorney at Law & Political Activist
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