Agenda
1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Opening Session and Chair Plenary
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Keynote Address by Monica Kaufman Pearson
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Invited Reception
10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Plenary: A Lacuna of Sorts: Creating an African American Studies Minor That Addresses the Gap of Cultural Inclusion
Ebony Gibson, Brandon Lewis, Erica Metcalfe, Michael Griffin of Georgia Gwinnett College
11:30 a.m. -12:45 p.m. Session A - Concurrent panels
Room 1 - Policy, Justice, and Decolonial Education
- Natsu Saito Decolonizing Our Minds: Moving Beyond Equality to Self-Determination
- Thomas Aiello Black History and Present Racial Consequences: The Movement to End Nonunanimous Criminal Juries in Louisiana
- Nathaniel Norment Jr. The Fields and Functions of African American Studies and Public Policy
- Janie Frances Asante and Sandra Barnhill Prison Praxis: Examining the Impact of a Twenty-Five Year Partnership Between the African American Studies Department and Foreverfamily to Serve Children and Families Affected by Parental Incarceration
Room 2 - Popular Culture and Social Movements
- Nathalie Fox FunkJazz Kafe: The Music, Movement, and Marketing
- Chinwe Maponya-Cook The Formula for Establishing A Successful Black Female Rapper
- Shannon M. Cochron “They Used to Call Me Fatty and Now They Call Me Big Daddy!”: Hip-Hop, Heavy D, and Bodily Activism in American Visual and Narratives Cultures
- Aaron Smith From Chains to Bars, Artistic Interpretations of Resistance! A Hip-Hop Performative Analysis, From Nat Turner to Nas
Room 3 – Exploring the Depth and Breadth of Social Media, Social Movements and Black Activism: Does It Work?
- George Greenidge, Justin Blu, Aliyah Jones, Lureila Freeman, Ashley Holmes, Ilya Davis
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Lunch on your own
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Session B - Concurrent panels
Room 1 – Distorted Images and Black Futurity
- Gail McFarland Footsteps on The Net: The Hijacking of Black Lives Matter
- Zalika Ibaorimi Recapturing Flesh, Unveiling Futures: Black Women’s Sexual Politics of Private Performance to Public Image
- Sarita Davis Distorted Images and HIV risk among African American Women
- Keyaria Rhodes Black Futures in the Digital Age: Thinking With & Through Pictured Protest
Room 2 – Local Movements and Broader Legacies
- Shawn Williams The Value of Remembrance: Rescuing the Black Studies Movement Narrative
- Angelica Eusary The Influence of the Harlem Renaissance Era
- Taishon Cleveland “Abolishing the Political Aristocracy In Atlanta”: How Students Of The Atlanta University Center Attempted To Change Politics Of The Powerful
- Je’lon Alexander The Quest for Black Self-Determination: The Atlanta Vine City Project and Its Early Contribution to the Black Power
Room 3 - Who Runs the Yard? Black Students Navigating White Space at PWI's
- C. Bernard McCray, Staff and Ph.D students from Georgia State University
4:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Session C - Concurrent panels
Room 1 – Narratives of Black Liberation
- Tina Dongo Revolution Deferred: The Erasure of Black Women from Liberation Movements
- Bryonna Reed From Slave Narratives to Memoirs: Examining Canonical Legacies in Black Studies
- Julia Johnson Sandra, Trayvon, and Michael: A Linguistic & Rhetorical Analysis to the Black Experience
- Philip Lythcott Baldwin's "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone": Hoot Hoot - From Protest Novel of the mid 20th Century to Black Lives Matter Mass Movement of the early 21st Century
Room 2 – Pedagogies and Student Experiences
- Lashawna Brown Silent but Deadly: The Control and Commodification of the Black Male Athlete with Sickle Cell Trait
- Eric Duke Dilemmas, Directions, Decisions: The Internationalization of African American Studies in 21st Century HBCUs
- A.J. Verdelle Educating the Ungentrified: Pedagogical Adjustments for Teaching Writing and Thinking to Students Matriculating from Urban Public Schools
Room 3 – Body Politics, Conflict, and Healing
- Ruby Manley “The Good Lord Tells Me What to Do”: Granny Midwives and Georgia’s Maternal Healthcare Crisis
- Kiana Clark Destigmatizing Black Trichsters
- K.L. Long Untold Truths: Explorations of Intra-Group Colorism and the Experiences of Light Skinned Women that Identify as Black
11:00am-12:45pm
- Alumni Townhall
1:00pm-3:00pm Lunch at Sweet Auburn
AAS has made tremendous strides in fulfilling the University’s advisory committee on African American Studies’ mandate “to become a regionally and ultimately a nationally recognized department of African American Studies.”
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The Department of African-American Studies (AAS) at Georgia State University is a direct result of the persistence, fortitude and commitment of the student-activists who sought social change at Georgia State University. Since its formal inception in 1994, AAS has made tremendous strides in fulfilling the University’s advisory committee on African American Studies’ mandate “to become a regionally and ultimately a nationally recognized department of African-American Studies.”
A dedicated faculty, outstanding staff, enthusiastic students has propelled the Department on to the national landscape of the discipline in major ways. Continued participation in civic engagement and social justice advocacy remains one of the foremost keystone principles of the Department of African-American Studies. Visit us at: https://africana.gsu.edu/
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