#  PROGRAM - Saturday, February 29, 2020 

 



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***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

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**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:

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“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

#### 5:15 PM: Closing Remarks

**Tommie Shelby**