Speakers

Diya Abdo

Information: English Department, Guilford College; PLENARY SPEAKER; Title: Every Campus A Refuge: Reimagining the University in a Time of Crisis

Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà

Information: School of Art, Design, and Art History, James Madison University; PLENARY SPEAKER; Title: Embracing/Embodying Glo-cal-ity: New African Diaspora Artists' Aesthetics and Transnational Conversations

Amir Mohamed Aziz

Information: Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University; PLENARY SPEAKER

Gabriel Bámgbóṣé

Information: Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University; Title: The Self in Poetic Language: Poetics of Hapticality in Abena Busia’s Traces of a Life

Clovis Bergère

Information: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania; PLENARY SPEAKER; Title: Clever Improvisations, Hashtags and Choreographies of Protest in Guinea

Simone Brioni

Information: Department of English, Stony Brook University; Title: Collaboration as a Decolonial Practice

andré carrington

Information: Department of English and Philosophy, Harvard University; Title: Watching Wakanda: Desiring Blackness in Marvel’s Black Panther, from page to screen

Eric Charry

Information: Music Department, Wesleyan University; Title: Hip Hop Africanized

Ouafaa Deleger

Information: Department of French, Rutgers University; PLENARY SPEAKER; Title: The piano as a cultural passage: Le piano Oriental, Z. Abirached

Manthia Diawara

Information: University Professor, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts; KEYNOTE SPEAKER; Title: Global African Studies: Some Thoughts from Edouard Glissant

Tosin Gbogi

Information: Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics, Tulane University; Title: Postcolonial Resistance, Transethnic Vernaculars, and New Youth Identities in African Hip Hop Cultures

Marame Gueye

Information: English Department, East Carolina University; Title: A Woman is Another Woman’s Cure: African Women, Immigration, and Digital Sisterhood

Jonathan Bishop Highfield

Information: Literary Arts and Studies, Rhode Island School of Design; Title: Riding the Indian Ocean’s Waves: Displacement of People and Movement of Food Across Four Continents

RaShelle R. Peck

Information: Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University; Title: Global Blackness in Underground Nairobi Hip Hop

Roger Noguerol Ramírez

Information: Producer and Musician; Title: El Cajon as a Symbol of Resistance

Jonathon Repinecz

Information: Department of Modern and Classical Languages, George Mason University; Title: From Négritude to Wakanda: Toward A Critical Genealogy

Reginold Royston

Information: Information School and the Department of African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Title: Podcasting and Orality in African Digital Aesthetics

Susanna Sacks

Information: English Department, Northwestern University; Title: The Aesthetics of Agency: International Art Festivals and the Limits of the Cosmopolitan Imagination

Alexandria Smith

Information: Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University; Title: Roaring Inside the Marble: Queer Diaspora in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater

Wendy Wilson-Fall

Information: Africana Studies Program, Lafayette College; Title: Practical Pan-Africanism: Global Musics, Mobility, and Blackness

Christopher Wise

Information: Department of English, Western Washington University; Title: Yambo Ouologuem’s Le devoir de violence at 50

Lisa Yung and Ricardo René Larémont

Information: Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University; Department of Sociology, Binghamton University; Title: Afro Asian intersections and migration

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