SORAC 2000: Conference Program & Schedule
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SORAC 2000 International Conference |
April 27, 28 & 29, 2000
Keynote Speaker
Professor Molefi K. Asante
Temple University
Professor Asante will speak Friday 28, at 5:30pm on the theme of:
“Afrocentricity: Toward A New Understanding of the African-American Experience”
Important information for SORAC 2000 attendees staying at hotels. Here |
Note that the list of speakers below will be updated continuously. NOTE TO THE SPEAKERS & REGISTRANTS: You will not be registered for the conference until your fee has been received in full. You may see the registration information here. |
ALL SPEECHES WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE STUDENT CENTER (See directions and campus maps here..)
THURSDAY 27 – Student Center, Ballroom A
8:30-9:00am : Complimentary Breakfast Buffet
Opening Ceremony and Panels
9:00-9:15 – Welcoming remarks:
- Richard Lynde, Provost, Montclair State University
- Dr. Daniel Mengara, SORAC Executive Director
- Dr. Tim Renner, Institute for the Humanities
9:15-12:00 – Discussion Panel With Leading Scholarly & Political Figures
Theme: “Why Have Our Leaders Failed Us?”
Special Guest Speakers
- “African Solutions for African Problems”
Professor George Ayittey, American University - “Crises in the African Great Lakes Region: Causes, Issues and Solutions”
Ambassador André Kapanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Permanent Representative to the United Nations
12:00-1:00pm LUNCH BREAK
(Conference participants and attendees may purchase lunch in the Student Center Cafeteria, the Rathskeller on the 1st floor of the Student Center, or in the Faculty Dining Room on the lobby level of the Student Center)
Session 1: Historical Visions and Revisions (Part 1)
Time: 1:00-3:00pm (30 minutes per presentation)
Session Chair: Leslie Wilson, Montclair State University
Room: 411-414, Student Center
“The Dance of Dunham and Primus: Historical Impact of Cultural Anthropological Preservationists”
Cheryl Halliburton-Beatty, LIU/C.W
“The Politics of Representaion in the Intellectual History of Africa: An Examination of Theories and Methods”
Serigne Ndiaye, Emory University
“A Peculiar Sense of the Classical”: Robert Benjamin Lewis and “Light and Truth”
Reginald H. Pitts, John Milner Associates
Session 2: Literature & Orature (Part 1)
Time: 1:00-3:00pm (30 minutes per presentation)
Session Chair: John Gruesser, Kean University
Room: Ballroom C, Student Center
“Ralph Ellison and the African American Inferno”
Kerstin Blum, Otto-Friedrich-Universitaet Bamberg, Germany
“James Baldwin and Leon Forrest at the Millennium: A Consideration of their Figurations of the 1960s”
Michael G. Davros, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Decolonizing the Spirit: The End of Ethiopianism in The Color Purple”
John Gruesser, Kean University
“I, We and Historical Memory in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco”
Jack Jordan, Mississipi State University
FRIDAY 28
8:30-9:00am: Complimentary Breakfast Buffet
Session 1: Civil Rights, Liberation and Struggle
Time: 9:00-12:00pm (30 minutes per presentation)
Session Chair: Victor Bascara, University of Georgia
Room: 419, Student Center
“When the Revolution Comes: Black Liberation and the Twilight of the American Century”
Rod Bush, St. John’s University
“The Brotherhood of Liberty: African American Civil Rights Activists in late Nineteenth-Century Baltimore”
John Cashman, Boston College
“French rap: a political voice for the disadvantaged”
Elizabeth Wham, University of Georgia
“Race and Solidarity between Afro-Caribbean Communities during the Cuban Wars of Independence”
Philippe Zacaïr, University of Memphis
“The Influences of the Black Panther Party (USA) on the Bahamian Vanguard Party (1972-87)”
John T. McCartney, Lafayette College
“The Reason Why the Asian American Was in the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair – African American Contributions to Asian American Literature”
Victor Bascara, University of Georgia
Session 2: Speeches, Thought and Ideologies (Part 1)
Time: 9:00-12:00pm (30 minutes per presentation)
Session Chair: Perry A. Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Room: 417, Student Center
“The Imperatives of the Philosophy of Kwame Nkrumah for Twenty-First Century Africa”
Otoabasi Akpan, University of Uyo, Nigeria
“Re-Linking With Our History: Bringing the People Back In”
Kimani Gacau, University of Zimbabwe
“Fanon and National Culture: The Ngugi Paradigm”
Amandi C. Esonwanne, York University,
“The Hybrid Rhetoric of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Matt Willden, Brigham Young University
“The Elements of Permanent Influence: Discourse delivered in the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church Washington, D.C. Sunday, February 16, 1890″ by Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) –The Relevance in Contemporary African Times of an Old Sermon…”
Isa Jeanette Espadon Blyden, Mercer County Community College,
“Alexander Crummell, Blyden, Delany and Others: The Paradoxical Roots of Black Nationalism”
Perry A. Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Session 3: Literature & Orature (Part 2)
Time: 9:00-11:30pm (30 minutes per presentation)
Session Chair: Mary Holley, Montclair State University
Room: 417, Student center
“Afro-New World Stories and Storytellers: The Folkloric Work of Zora Neale Hurston and Lydia Cabrera”
Karen Ruth Kornweibel, University of Texas at Austin
“Ira Aldridge: The Search for Recognition”
Scot Lahaie, Baylor University
“I …sing America”: The Political Music of Langston Hughes’s Poetry”
Brenda Lyons, Westfield State College
“Black American Art Culture, Black Literature, and Textuality in Toni Morrison’s Sula”
Hyun Kyung Helen Ree, Columbia University
“Through a Glass Darkly: Frederick Douglass’ Second Sight”
J. Ken Stuckey, Cornell University
12:00-1:00pm LUNCH BREAK
(Conference participants and attendees may purchase lunch in the Student Center Cafeteria, the Rathskeller on the 1st floor of the Student Center, or in the Faculty Dining Room on the lobby level of the Student Center)
Session 4: Historical Visions and Revisions (Part 2)
Time: 1:00-4:00pm (30 minutes per presentation)
Session Chair: Augustine Okereke, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland (Germany)
Room: 411-414, Student Center
“Disappointed Hopes/Shattered Dreams: Cry, My Beloved Africa”
Augustine Okereke, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland (Germany)
“From Cheikh Anta Diop to Elijah Muhammad”
Muhammad Rahman, University of Medicine and Dentistry, Newark, New Jersey
“Holding the Line: Race and American Foreign Policy Toward Africa During the Cold War”
George White, Jr., Temple University
“Race To Justice: Ralph Ellison and Harold Cruse”
Tyrone Williams, Xavier University
“Victims or Conquerors? Remarks on Black American Cultural ‘Imperialism'”
Daniel Mengara, Montclair State University
“Modernity and the Antinomies of Edward Wilmot Blyden”
Teshale Tibebu, Temple University
Session 5: Governance, Politics and Development
Time: 1:00-3:00pm (30 minutes per presentation)
Session Chair: Nancy Tumposky, Montclair State University
Room: 419, Student Center
“A Lost Dignity: The African Experience at Western Democracy”
Humphrey Arodiogbu, University of Paderborn, Germany
“An Examination of Development Impasse in African States”
F.N. Ndubuisi, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
“African Intellectuals and the Problem of Political Instability in Africa: The Challenge in the New Millennium”
Raphael C. Njoku, Dalhousie University, Canada.
“Institutional Reforms and Trade Flows in Africa: An Empirical Evaluation of the Congolese Economy”
Emmanuel N. Mulumba, Berkeley College
Session 6: Education & Empowerment
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (30 minutes per presentation)
Session Chair: Nancy Tumposky, Montclair State University
Room: 419, Student Center
“Wired? African-American Students and Equity of Access to Technology”
Nancy Tumposky, Montclair State University
“The Development of Black Intellectual Empowerment in Students K-12”
Wandalyn Enix, Montclair State University
| 5:30pm – BANQUET and Keynote Address by Professor Molefi Asante |
SATURDAY 29
Session 1: Speeches, Thought and Ideologies (Part 2)
Time: 9:00-11:30pm (30 minutes per presentation)
Session Chair: Kara Rabbitt, William Paterson University
Room: 411-414, Student Center
“The African Renaissance: A Quest for Dignity”
Mabogo Percy More, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa
“Rethinking Pan-Africanism”
Hannington Ochwada, University of Florida
“Leopold Senghor’s Negritude and The Question of African Identity”
Jolley Oladotun Ogunkoya, University of Lagos, Nigeria
“Diversity of Negritudes: Tropiques and Légitime Défense”
Kara Rabbitt, William Paterson University
“Booker T. Washington and W. E. Du Bois on a Divergent Path”
Tsegaye Wodajo, Bronx Community College/CUNY
Session 2: Black Women in Thought and Action
Time: 9:00-11:30pm (30 minutes per presentation)
Session Chair: Waseem Anwar, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Room: 419, Student Center
“Histories of Censorship: A Psycho-semiotic Study of Silence in African-American Women’s Drama”
Waseem Anwar, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
“Transforming Silence into Language and Action”: Black and White Women’s Relationships”
Samantha Earley, Indiana University Southeast
“Feminism and Nationalism in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara”
Thabiti Lewis, University of Rochester
“The Bleaching of Soujourner’s Truths: Accomodating White Sensibilities”
Catherine Kunce, University of Denver
“Rewriting the Black Matriarch: Eva in Toni Morrison’s Sula”
Rose De Angelis, Marist College
Session 3: Culture & Philosophy
Time: 9:00-11:00pm (30 minutes per presentation)
Session Chair: Daniel Mengara, Montclair State University
Room: 417, Student Center
“The Notion of Truth and the Problem of Political Theories in Africa”
Patricia O. Agboro, University of Lagos, Nigeria
“African Godianism and its imperative for Global Spiritual Harmony, Peace and Development”
Chigbo Joseph Ekwealo, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria
“Discipline, Social Justice and Equity in an African Society: The Role of Earth Deity Among The Igbo of Nigeria”
Chigozie Bright Nnabuihe, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
Conference Ends
NOTE: Rooms, events and schedule subject to change. Keep checking the SORAC Web site for updates on the program, speeches and other things.
Welcome to Montclair State University!
Event Co-Sponsored by:
The Institute for the Humanities,
CHSS-College of Humanities and Social Sciences, MSU
