PROGRAM - Saturday, February 29, 2020

PLEASE NOTE:  Saturday's events are free and open to the public, however, seating is general admission and limited, please plan to arrive early.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2020
TSAI AUDITORIUM (CGIS)
8:15 AM COFFEE AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:00 AM: WELCOMING REMARKS

Lawrence D. Bobo, Dean of Social Science; W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
 

9:15 AM: ALUMNI REFLECTIONS
Brandon M. Terry ’05 (moderator), Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies, Harvard University

Terence Carter ’01, Co-President, Head of TV, Westbrook Studios 

Sulee Stinson Clay ’92, Chair of the Corporate Group and Managing Partner at McKennon, Shelton & Henn LLP

Sangu Delle ’10, Entrepreneur, investor, and author; Managing Director of Africa Health Holdings

Myles V. Lynk ‘71, Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and the Legal Profession, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts ‘00, Writer and journalist

10:45 AM: BREAK

11:00 PM: THE PHD: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES

Tommie Shelby (moderator)

Martha Biondi, Lorraine H. Morton Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History; Director of the Center for African American History, Northwestern University

Jennifer C. Nash, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University

Barbara Savage, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Olufemi Táíwò, Professor of African Political Thought and Department Chair at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University

12:30 PM: LUNCH BREAK

2:00 PM: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Contesting Africa’s ‘Dissimilarity’:  Reflections on Global African Studies”

Emmanuel Akyeampong (introduction),Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies, Harvard University

Wale Adebanwi, Director of the African Studies Centre; Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford

3:30 PM: BREAK

3:45 PM: SCHOLAR-ACTIVISM AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Elizabeth Hinton (moderator), Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Carole Boyce-Davies, Professor of Africana Studies;and English, Cornell University

Imani Perry, Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University 

Aurora Vergara-Figueroa, Director(a) del Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos, Universidad Icesi

Cornel West ’74,;Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University