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African American Culture And The Crisis Of The Colonial State: The John Hope Franklin Center Symposium

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The John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Duke University is hosting a symposium on African American Culture And The Crisis Of The Colonial State on March 23-24, 2023. The symposium will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss the ways in which African American culture has been shaped by and has resisted the colonial state.

Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State (The John Hope Franklin in African American History and Culture)

Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

by Ira Dworkin

5 out of 5

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The symposium will feature keynote addresses by:

Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
Keisha Blain, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School

The symposium will also feature a roundtable discussion on the future of African American studies with:

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University
Valerie Smith, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Maryland
Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles

The symposium is free and open to the public. Registration is required and can be completed online at the following link: https://hopkins.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cjUq0YJoTKyc8U1MGGpG9g.

Schedule of Events

Thursday, March 23

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Registration and coffee
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Keynote address by Saidiya Hartman
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Roundtable discussion on the future of African American studies
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Panel 1: African American culture and the colonial state
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Panel 2: African American resistance to the colonial state
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Reception

Friday, March 24

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Coffee
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Keynote address by Keisha Blain
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Panel 3: African American culture and the postcolonial state
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Panel 4: African American culture and the global South
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Keynote address by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Closing remarks

Location

The symposium will be held at the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Duke University. The address is:

111 Wall Street
Durham, NC 27708

Parking

Parking is available in the Bryan Center Parking Garage, which is located at the corner of Anderson Street and Duke University Road. The parking garage is a short walk from the John Hope Franklin Center.

Registration

The symposium is free and open to the public. Registration is required and can be completed online at the following link: https://hopkins.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cjUq0YJoTKyc8U1MGGpG9g.

Contact

For more information, please contact the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at (919) 684-2423 or [email protected].

Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

by Ira Dworkin

5 out of 5