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Wake Up: Reflections on Our Past Envisioning our Future

Event Details

April 19, 2019
8:30 am

All Campus

Free admission
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Contact:
Tricia Loveland
tlovelan@afroam.umass.edu
413-545-2751

W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies

Graduate Student Symposium

*New Africa House Theater Room (8:30 am - 12:15 pm)

Alumni Panel:  
Judyie Al-Bilali, Shawn Alexander, Mtali Banda, Sid Ferreira, Jacinta Saffold

Chair Panel: 
Emeritus Professors Ernest Allen, Esther Terry, Michael Thelwell; and, Professors John Bracey, Amilcar Shabazz

*Amherst Room, Campus Center (12:30 pm - 7:00 pm)

Undergraduate Panel: 
Nathalie Amazan, Ethank Bakuli, Ivis Batista, Chayanne Chataigne, Franzchesca Dormeus, Samantha Sims, Alexis Umeh, Christian Woods

Graduate Panel: 
Biko, Kymberly Newberry, Quaram Robinson, Lana Sims, Erika Slocumb

Keynote Panel:
Professors Kymberly Juanita Brown, Fumi Okiji, Britt Rusert and Frank B. Wilderson, III

*Lunch and refreshments provided!

Event Category

Conference/Seminar/Workshop