Africa-Day-Symposium-Agenda-2017

Africa Day Symposium Friday, April 2017 Moravian College AFRICA IS THE FUTURE 10:00 – 10:45 10:45 – 11:00 11:00 – 12:30 Panelists: 12:30 – 1:30 1:30 – 3:00 Moderator: Panelists: 3:00 – 3:30 Registration (UBC Room, HUB Student Union) Breakfast (Air Products Room, HUB Student Union) Welcome Remarks (UBC Room, HUB Student Union) Dr Cynthia Kosso, Provost, Moravian College Dr Akbar Keshodkar, Moravian College Anticipatory Africa: Reflections on Temporality, Teaching and Research in an Emergent Africa (UBC Room, HUB Student Union) Dr Khanjan Mehta, Lehigh University “Frugal Innovation and Sustainable Development” Dr William Bissell, Lafayette College (Panel Moderator) “Mediated Futures: Film, Imagination, and Visions of Scenes to Come” Dr Wendy Wilson Fall, Lafayette College “Finding the Future: Youth and Performing the Transnational” Dr Akbar Keshodkar, Moravian College “Revival of the Indian Ocean Nexus: A New Era of South-South Mobility” Lunch (Marketplace, HUB Student Union) Buffet lunch; Regional African cuisine will be on offering at the Sustainable Table (Registered participants are requested to pick up the lunch coupon at the time of registration) African Lives in the 21st Century (UBC Room, HUB Student Union) Dr Susan Kart, Lehigh University Michelle Blazewicz, Muhlenberg College “Changing Marriage Practices in Senegal Examined Through the Works of Senegalese Women Writers” Megan Ross, Muhlenberg College “Revolutions in Movement: How Senegalese Women Redefine "Negritude" through Dance” Madeleine Weko, Muhlenberg College “Négritude and Polygamy: Navigating Marriage in Postcolonial Senegal” Freddy Coleman, Lehigh University “A Digitizing Africa - The Rapid Tech Development of African Industry” Coffee Break (Refreshments in Air Products Room, HUB Student Union) 3:30 – 4:30 Keynote Address (UBC Room, HUB Student Union) Dr Siba N Grovogui, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University “African Discourses on Citizenship: Observations on Modern Imaginaries of Belonging and Public Life” 4:30 – 5:30 Africa is the Future: Emerging Discourses, Roundtable Discussion (UBC Room, HUB Student Union) Dr Kwame Essien, Lehigh University (Moderator) Dr Rex Ahene, Lafayette College Dr Susan Kart, Lehigh University Dr James Peterson, Lehigh University Panelists: 5:30 – 5:40 5:40 – 7:30 Closing Remarks (UBC Room, HUB Student Union) Dr Bruce Whitehouse, Lehigh University Conference Reception (Pavilion, HUB Student Union) Live African music provided by LV Benga Africa