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Event

Africa in the World: Past, Present, and Future

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 16:00to18:00
Room 232
Price: 
Free

The panel will discuss the future of Africa, Africans, and African diaspora studies within the prism of Pan-Africanism: past, present, and future. Encouraging the participation of faculty and students alike, panelists will discuss the ways in which the study of the continent fits in this Pan-Africanist enterprise from the perspective of their respective fields and explore how the field may be meaningfully integrated as part of global efforts at decolonizing the academy within the context of rapidly changing intellectual, political, and social dynamics impacting Africans and Afro-descendant communities representing, Africa in the World.

Panelists

Professor , Associate Professor of Africana Studies; Chair of Africana Studies, Oberlin College

Professor , Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Comparative American Studies; President, Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, Oberlin College

, francophone Pan Africanist Historian and Writer

Moderators

Professor Khalid Mustafa Medani, Associate Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies, Â鶹AV; Director, joint appointment Political Science and Islamic Studies, Â鶹AV

Professor Associate Dean for Equity, Faculty of Arts, Â鶹AV

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