To mark the International Decade for People of Africa Descent, and in consideration of the ongoing struggles of African peoples, including those in diasporic communities, the Harriet Tubman Institute is organizing a virtual interdisciplinary conference on Wednesday and Thursday, 11–12 May 2022.
Dr. Hanétha Vété-Congolo will give the conference keynote lecture on Africa Tomorrow: Building Modernity, Economic Wealth, and Human Freedom and Dignity Through Knowledge on 11 May 2022 at 09:00 EDT. Professor Vété-Congolo is the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Bowdoin College; President, Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Watch Dr. Vété-Congolo’s keynote at this link
African Studies and Development Studies scholar Dr. Pablo Idahosa (York University) will offer closing remarks—Within and Beyond the Faultlines of Black Atlanticism—on 12 May 2022 at 16:30 EDT. Watch Dr. Idahosa’s remarks at this link.
Panels
- Diasporic Identity Formations and the Continent
- Histories and Geographies of Blackness
- Migration (African and Caribbean) and Blackness in Canada
- Blackness and the Performing Arts (Music, Film, Theatre and Visual Arts)
- Space and Black Bodies (Historical, Contemporary Occupation)
- Memory/Memories: Blackness and the Performing Arts
- Histories and Geographies of Blackness
- Moving Forward: Africa and Diasporic-African Futures
- Within and Beyond the Faultlines of Black Atlanticism
The conference program is available at this link.
For more information: tubman@yorku.ca.