3:00 pm Arrival and welcome at Duke
3:30 pm Display of Africana material from Rubenstein Library / Self-guided tour of Duke Libraries
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Reception
Zoom link for all meetings:
https://unc.zoom.us/j/99543864781
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am Welcome at UNC
9:05 am Keynote "Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa" by Professor Samba Camara.
Samba Camara is an interdisciplinary scholar of African literature and popular culture, and he takes a keen interest in the study of cultural flows in the Black Atlantic. Camara has taught Global Black Popular Cultures (AAAD 288), African Film and Performance (AAAD 202), Introduction to African Literature (AAAD 201), Introduction to Africa (AAAD 101), Contemporary Cultures of Islamic Africa (AAAD 303), and all levels of the Wolof language course.
As a former Fulbright Scholar, Camara has a strong interest in international educational initiatives and curricula globalization. These interests feature saliently his teaching, and he invests efforts in initiating university partnership programs aimed for encouraging international academic exchange.
9:35 am "K-5 Digital Learning of Contemporary Africa" by Laura Cox. Laura Cox is a PhD candidate in History and the outreach manager for the African Studies Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a Royster and Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellow and has conducted research in South Africa, England, and Switzerland. Her dissertation examines the politics of gender and solidarity in the global anti-apartheid struggle. She has published in Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity and has an article forthcoming in the Journal of South African History.
10:05 am - 12:30 pm ALC Business Meeting
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm ALC Afternoon Session
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Tour of Ackland Museum
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm: Dinner will be catered on UNC campus
Zoom link for all meetings:
https://unc.zoom.us/j/99543864781
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am Global Collections Committees (formerly known as CAMP)
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Title VI