Africana Studies 2012 News and Events
Department of Africana Studies Fifth Annual Research Symposium
8:45 Registration Light Breakfast Refreshments Provided 9:15 Welcome - Dr. Marcia Sutherland Associate Professor and Department Chair 9:20 – 12:00 Session One – Faculty Panel Moderator – Dr. Leonard A. Slade, Jr. Professor Dr. Ibram Rogers “Egalitarian Exclusion and the Strategy to Eliminate Affirmative Action” Dr. Nicholas Creary “Literary Cultural Nationalism in the 20th Century African Atlantic World, 1915 - 1945” Closing Response – Dr. Oscar Williams Associate Professor 12:00 – 1:00 Break for Lunch in Assembly Hall Refreshments Provided 1:00 – 3:50 Session 2 – Graduate Student Panel Moderator – Jani Cash 3:50 – 4:00 Closing Remarks - Dr. Marcia Sutherland Associate Professor and Department Chair
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Campus Center Assembly Hall (518-442-4730)
Assistant Professor
Professor Robert Gluck “You’ll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band”
Associate Professor
Lecturer
Professor Timothy Taylor “Further Along the Jericho Road: Building a Community Based Legal Practice”
Adjunct Professor
Angelica Bullock “The Black Panther Party’s Commitment to Medical Care In the Civil Rights Era”
John Craig “Black Power, Nationalism, and Pan-Africanism In African American Culture”
Charlene Bradt “The Perspectives of Kenyan Citizens on Kenya's Level of Political Corruption”
Ndidi Nwakalor “Education in Namibia: The European Influence”
Co-Sponsored by UAS Albany
2012 Celebration of Christmas and Kwanzaa
Wednesday, December 12th 11:30 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. BA118

