Dartmouth Events

This forum aims to rethink the significance of the study of Africa in global terms. The historical and contemporary linkages between Africa and the rest of the world will be a central feature of the event. We are particularly concerned with understanding Africana peoples, expressions, mobilities, symbols, and places in order to give insight into global uncertainties around topics that include migration/immigration, gender/sexuality, citizenship, and policing. Discussions will be based on the panelists' research and writing but will entail no formal papers. Participants will use their scholarly research as a basis for exploring what it means to be a public intellectual. 

MORNING PANEL: Africana Mobilities in Global Perspective (10 am to noon)

Panel chair: Jesse Weaver Shipley

Ebony E.A. Coletu, Pennsylvania State University, “Chief Sam and the Origins of African American Migration to Ghana” 

Abosede George, Barnard College, “The Mothership and the Motherland: The Challenge and Promise of Afro-futurism for Global Africana Studies”

Carina E. Ray, Brandeis University, “Migrations, Now and Then: Routes, Reversals and Reasons”

Benjamin Talton, Temple University, “Afro-80s: Writing Black Radicalism in Africa and the U.S. Congress”

AFTERNOON PANEL: Ordering Space, Ordering Time: Africana Subjectivities (2:30 to 4:30 pm)

Panel chair: Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch

Elizabeth Garland, Verite, “Modes of Engagement with Africa’s Place within the Global Political-Economic Order”

Nelson Kasfir, Dartmouth College, “Constructing an African Concept of Civil Society”

Zine Magubane, Boston College, “Africa and the Social Sciences: Haiti, Africa, and the Making of Sociology”

Chika Unigwe, Brown University, “Artistic Intervention: Crafting Stories of Travel and Transformation”

Convened by Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch and Jesse Weaver Shipley

Co-sponsored by the AAAS Program, the History Department, the Rockefeller Center, and the Dean of Faculty Office.