Black Lives: Global and Local Structures of Inequality and Justice
SERSAS/SEAN Virtual Conference
October 8-9, 2021
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Friday, October 8
4:30-5:30pm Keynote Presentation. Rosalind Fredericks Gallatin School, New York University
“Uncanny Exposures: Embodied Infrastructures and Toxic Solidarities at Dakar’s Dump.”
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Saturday, October 9
8:30am Late Registration Opens
8:45am Opening Remarks Christopher Day, Program Director of CofC African Studies
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9:00-10:30am Panel 1A
Panel Chair: Simon Lewis
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Mission Impossible: decrying inequality and access to justice
Adaku T. Ankumah, Tuskegee University
“Righting Gender Inequalities Through Writing: Thomas Jing’s Tale of an African Woman
Benjamin Hart Fishkin, Tuskegee University
“Chaos and Disorder Underlying Inequalities in Emmanuel’s The Fire Within.”
Bill F. Ndi, Tuskegee University
“Testimony against Institutional Injustice, Repression, and Marginalization.”
Camille Alexander, Tuskegee University
“Afro-Caribbean Poetry: An Exposition of Women’s Subaltern Existence.”
Richard Evans, Tuskegee University
“African Literature or African Literatures: Moving to a Comparative Perspective.
9:00-10:30am Panel 1B
Panel Chair: Jack Parson
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Politics
Hye-Sung Kim, Winthrop University
“Oil Extraction and conflicts between pastoralists: A conjoint experiment in Turkana, Kenya.”
Adrien Ratsimbaharison, Benedict College
“Methodological Approach to Political Stability and Instability: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods in the Case of Madagascar.”
Stephen M. Magu, Norfolk State University
“Constructing Second Hand Lives: Vaccine Nationalism as Permanent Second Class Citizenship in the Global South.”
Kaleb Demerew, University of South Florida
“Rethinking African Sovereignty: Beyond Govermentality and Critical Theory.”
10:45-12:15 Panel 2A
Panel Chair: Cathy Skidmore-Hess
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Healthcare, Economic and Social Inequalities in the Black World
Yvette Essounga Njan, Tuskegee University
“Africa, Inequalities, and the Struggle for Economic and Social Justice.”
Vincent Godfrey, Tuskegee University
“George Weekes and the Fight for Bread, Peace, and Justice.”
Lynn Benson, Tuskegee University
“Black Women and Pregnancy in the United States of America”
Achirri Ismael, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, “Dwelling St. Lucia Wetlands: Race, Ideology, and the Dilemmas of Land Restitution and Justice within Conservation Space – A Case Study of Lake Bhangazi (in Isimangaliso Wetland Park) and its Internal South African Diaspora.”
Denis Waswa, Louisiana State University
“Invisibility and Double Consciousness: The Real Life of Making Home for Students of Color in the U.S. Academia Today”
10:45-12:15 Panel 2B
Panel Chair: John Cropper
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History
Edmund Abaka, University of Miami
“His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in America: Africa and the Black Freedom Struggle in the United States.”
Latif A. Tarik, Elizabeth City State University
“"Black Freedom Struggles: Africana Reader, Pedagogy, and Africana Studies Instruction"
Trenton Zylstra, Eastern Carolina University
“The historical development of indigenous sail rigs in Senegal and the Gambia.”
Mary Thibodeau, Elon University
“Analyzing the Intersection of the Role of Memorials and Youth Education Policies in the Peace and Reconciliation Process in Post-Genocide Rwanda
12:30-1:30pm Lunch and SERSAS Business Meeting
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1:45-3:45pm Emerging Scholars Workshop
Workshop #1
Holly Dunn, University of South Florida
Emergent Hybrid Legality: Legal Consciousness and Unanticipated Outcomes of Legal Reforms in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Discussants: Christopher Day, Kevin Fridy
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4:00-5:30 Panel 3A
Panel Chair: Kristen McLean
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Beauty, Health, and Sport
Danielle Boaz, UNC Charlotte
“Rastafarians and the Fight Against Hair Hegemony in Africa.”
Patrick Alwine and Michael Denning, East Carolina University
"Medical Social Work Practice & Contemporary Challenges following the COVID-19 Pandemic: Changing attitudes and perspectives"
Anne Rotich, University of Virginia
“Race and Health Within African Immigrant Communities in the US.”
Wycliffe W. Njororai Simiyu, University of Texas at Tyler
“Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Global inequality and emerging threat to Kenya’s distance running.”
4:00-5:30 Panel 3B
Panel Chair: Christopher Day
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African Politics Roundtable
John Clark, Florida International University
Christopher Day, College of Charleston
Kevin Fridy, University of Tampa
Moses Khisa, NC State University
Beth Whitaker, UNC Charlotte