October 22, 1998 8pm
Olin Auditorium Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
AFRICAN CENTERED SCHOLARSHIP IN RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT
Moderator: Rev. Dr. Cecil Conteen Gray, Gettysburg College
Chishamiso Rowley, Wayne State University "Progress or Preservation: Defining the Constitutive Components of Institutional Transformation within the Academy and Beyond"
Amir M. Abdurahman, Temple University "The Implications of the African Conceptual System as the Foundations of
the Discipline of African World Studies"
Michelle Hammond, University of Pittsburgh "Re-Intellectualizing the Circle: The Development of African American Scholars in Ethnomusicology"
Kevin Parker, City University of New York "Navigating Seas of Resistance: The Implications of Current Political Processes for the Production and Dissemination of African Centered Scholarship"
Bonnie Young, Virginia Commonwealth University "African American Models of Community Organization: Implications for African Centered Community Practice"
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