This Is Us: African American and African Studies at 50 Years
Join us September 12–14, 2019, to celebrate fifty years of the Department of African American and African Studies with a series of events honoring our past, present, and future, including a film screening at the Wexner Center, a symposium featuring alumni of the department, an alumni social at the Thompson Library, and a community lunch at the Community Extension Center.
Film Screening and Q&A
Thursday, September 12
Wexner Center for the Arts
7:00PM Ina Archer, NMAAHC Smithsonian Curator
Symposium
Friday, September 13
Hale Hall
Welcome 9:30AM
Opening 9:45AM Black Studies @ OSU
Simone Drake, Chair, AAAS
Larry Williamson, OSU Hale Center
Session 1 10:00AM Current Directions
Moderator: Omar Dieng
Terrance Wooten, UCSB
Anne Rotich, UVA
Joseph Jordan, UNC-Chapel Hill
Tamara Butler, Michigan State University
Session 2 11:30AM The Activist Spirit
Moderator: Fungisai Musoni
Derrick White, Dartmouth College
Mary Phillips, CUNY Lehman
Charles Ross, University of Mississippi
Demetries Neely, King Arts Complex
Lunch 1:00PM
Lunch Keynote 1:30PM Producing Legacies
Esther Jones Cowan, Clark University
Session 3 2:30PM Community Engagement
Moderator: Ebony Oldham
Erica Taylor, Policy Consultant
Melanie Paris, American Kidney Fund
Ryan Nissim-Sabat, Unite Here
Risikat Okedeyi, Cultural Architect
Joshua Bates, A Home for Everyone
Closing Remarks 4:00PM Simone Drake
Alumni Social: 50 Years of AAAS & OSU Libraries
Friday, September 13
4:30PM–6:00PM Leta Hendricks
Thompson Library, 11th Floor Reading Room
Community Lunch
Saturday, September 14
AAAS CEC
Community Lunch 12:00PM–3:00PM