The Africana Institute in collaboration the Humanities Division and
The Francis E.W. Harper Literary Society at the Newark Public Library
Present
Fifth Annual State of Black Writers Symposium
Activism in the 21st Century
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Smith Hall
Essex County College
OPENING – 9:00 am
“Welcome and Greetings: Dr. Akil Kokayi Khalfani, Director – Africana Institute”
PANEL 1 – 10:00 am
Keynote Speakers: Claudette Colvin Original Bus Boycott participant and Angeline Butler Original member of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, (Introduced by Larry Hamm)
PANEL 2 – 11:30 am
“The Red Record to ‘The Root’: Black Media Activism from Print Culture to Social Networking”
Moderator: Rebecca Williams; Panelists: Shelagh Patterson: “What's Commitment Got to Do with It? Decolonizing Time in the Artblog Pënz (It's Pronounced Pants)”; Cyrille Phipps: “Seen But Not Heard: HIV/AIDS Activism of Women of African Descent”; Imani Henry: The Activist as Writer and Multimedia Performer
PANEL 3 – 1:00 pm
“French Panel” in French and English
Moderator: Viral Bhatt; Panelists: Claudy Delne: “Repenser la caractérisation triptyque de Rayford W. Logan de la Révolution haïtienne, comme cas de fracture coloniale la plus bouleversante, en regard des écrits historiographiques sur Haïti des deux dernières décennies; Viral Bhatt: “Nomadic Possibilities and Activist Cinema: In the Pursuit of Social Change in the Cinematic Works of Ousmane Sembène, Safi Faye and Anne Laure Folly”; Parnell Beaubrun “L’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie in the World”
PANEL 4 – 2:25 pm
“Poetry and Activism: A Poetry Reading”
Moderator: China Clark; Panelists/Poets: Shakira Willoughby-Little: “The Struggle for Identity as a Natural Black Woman”; Julien Cherrington: “The Struggle for Equality as a Black Man”
PANEL 5 – 3:50 pm
“Writing as Activism: Journalism and Narratives of Freedom”
Moderator: Eileen De Freece; Panelists: Courtney Marshall: “Fugitive Motherhood: Punishing Parenthood in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”; Collis Marrow: “Literary Inspirations for Journalistic Activism”; Eileen De Freece: “The Activist Influence in The Chicago Defender”
PANEL 6 – 5:15 PM
“Writing from the Inside: The Literary Activism of Political Prisoners”
Moderator: Jennifer Wager Panel and film screening (to follow); Panelists: Lynn Washington; Fayemi Shakur; Stephen Vittoria
PANEL 7 – 6:40 PM
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal Film Screening & Discussion
Program Co-Chairs Professors Eileen DeFreece and Rebecca Williams
For more information call 973-877-3219
Director, Africana Institute
Associate Professor of Sociology
Essex County College
West Market and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Newark, New Jersey 07102
http://www.essex.edu/ai/Khalfani_profile.html
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