Africana Studies 2012 News and Events

Department of Africana Studies Fifth Annual Research Symposium

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Campus Center Assembly Hall (518-442-4730)

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”
Assistant Professor
       
Professor Robert Gluck “You’ll Know When You Get There:  Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band” 
Associate Professor      

Dr. Nicholas Creary “Literary Cultural Nationalism in the 20th Century African Atlantic World, 1915 - 1945”
Lecturer
         
Professor Timothy Taylor “Further Along the Jericho Road:  Building a Community Based Legal Practice”
Adjunct Professor

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
       
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”

3:50 – 4:00    Closing Remarks -    Dr. Marcia Sutherland  Associate Professor and Department Chair 
     
Co-Sponsored by UAS Albany

Full Details in PDF file

 2012 Celebration of Christmas and Kwanzaa
Wednesday, December 12th 11:30 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. BA118