DAY 1: April 13
DALE HALTON ROOM
BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
8:30-9:30
INTRODUCTION
Dr. Akin Ogundiran
Conference Convener
and
Chair, Africana Studies Department
WELCOME REMARKS
Dr. Stanley Wilder
University Librarian, UNC Charlotte
9:30-12:00
Session I: Capacity Building and Transnational Networking in the Global Economy
Chair: Dr. Dorothy Smith-Ruiz, Africana Studies Dept.
Presenters
Albert Duncan, Ph.D.
City University of New York
"Susu" Money Savings: Economic and Social Networks among Caribbean Immigrants in New York City
Abdul Karim Bangura, Ph.D.
Howard University
Brain Circulation, Not Brain Drain: Sending Remittances,
Praying, Marching and Lobbying by Sierra Leonean Faith-based Organizations in the United States for the Lomé Peace Talks
Paul Stoller, Ph..D.
West Chester University
The Business of Social Relations: Social Resilience among West African Immigrants in New York City
Loretta G. Evivie, MBA, Ed.D.
Central Piedmont Community College
African International Students in the US: Implications for
Transnational Capacity Building
12:15-1:45 - Lunch Break
2:00-4:30
Session II. Multiple Identities and Intergenerational
Diasporas
Chair: Dr. Eddy Souffrant, Philosophy Dept.
Presenters
Brandon D. Lundy, Ph.D.
Kennesaw State University
Secondary Diaspora: Cape Verdean Immigration
to the Southeastern United States
Yolanda Covington-Ward, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
Transforming Communities, Recreating Selves: The Role of Dance in Shaping Liberian Immigrant Identity
Garvey Lundy, Ph.D.
Montgomery County Community College
Philadelphia's Haitian Community: The Forming of an Identity
Aribidesi Usman, Ph.D.
Arizona State University
Investigating the African-American Identity: How and Where Do New African Immigrants Fit in the United States
DAY 1: April 13
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
5:00-6:30 PM
ROWE ARTS 130
Toyin Falola, Ph.D.
The New African Diaspora: Knowledge Circulation, Diasporic Interfacing and the Globalization of Cultures
DAY 2: April 14
9:30-12:00
DALE HALTON READING ROOM
Session III: Collapsing Boundaries: Challenges of the Nation States and the Authority of the Diasporic Cultural Knowledge
Chair: Dr. Thomas D. Rogers, Africana Studies
Presenters
Amadou Shakur, M.A.
Center for the African Diaspora, Charlotte
Towards a United African Diaspora Islamic Community
S. Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, Ph.D.
University of Georgia
Transnationalism in the Context of Religious Identity and Values: A Study of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, North Carolina
Danielle Boaz, M.A., J.D.
University of Miami, FL
The New Responses of the United States to African-Caribbean
Religions: Legal and Pedagogical Implications
Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà , Ph.D.
James Madison University
Of Heritage, Memory and Migration: Two Contemporary African Artists and the Transnationalization of Cultural Knowledge
Luncheon Roundtable
12:00-2:30
DALE HALTON READING ROOM
Charting New Directions: Emerging Perspectives on the
African Diasporas
Lead Participants:
Akin Ogundiran, Africana Studies Department
Morenga Hunt and John Moore, JOMA Inc.
Patrice Ognodo, The Neighborhood Good Samaritan Center, Inc.
DAY 2: April 14
6:00-8:00
Cultural Influences from the Kingdom of Kongo
to the southern United States
Illustrated Talk and Conversations with
Acclaimed Yale University Art Historian
Dr. Robert Farris Thompson
Venue: Wells Fargo Auditorium at Knight Theater
430 S. Tryon St., Charlotte
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