To mark the International Decade for People of Africa Descent, and in consideration of the ongoing struggles of African peoples, including those in diasporic communities, the Harriet Tubman Institute is organizing a virtual interdisciplinary conference on Wednesday and Thursday, 11–12 May 2022.
Dr. Hanétha Vété-Congolo will give the conference keynote lecture on Africa Tomorrow: Building Modernity, Economic Wealth, and  Human Freedom and Dignity Through Knowledge on 11 May 2022 at 09:00 EDT. Professor Vété-Congolo is the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Bowdoin College; President, Caribbean Philosophical Association.
African Studies and Development Studies scholar Dr. Pablo Idahosa (91ÑÇÉ«) will offer closing remarks—Within and Beyond the Faultlines of Black Atlanticism—on 12 May 2022 at 16:30 EDT. .
Panels
- Diasporic Identity Formations and the Continent
- Histories and Geographies of Blackness
- Migration (African and Caribbean) and Blackness in Canada
- Blackness and the Performing Arts (Music, Film, Theatre and Visual Arts)
- Space and Black Bodies (Historical, Contemporary Occupation)
- Memory/Memories: Blackness and the Performing Arts
- Histories and Geographies of Blackness
- Moving Forward: Africa and Diasporic-African Futures
- Within and Beyond the Faultlines of Black Atlanticism
The conference program is available at this link.
For more information: tubman@yorku.ca.