Philosophy and Religion Conference in Africana Traditions 2017: Intersectionality and the Politics of Activism
Friday October 23, 2017 9:30am — 6:00pm
Center for Place, Culture and Politics
The Graduate Center of The City University of New York Rooms 9204/9205
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
MORNING SESSION 9:30am – 12:30pm
9:30am – 9:50am
Greetings and Opening Statement: J. Everet Green – Mercy College Greetings: Mary Taylor – CUNY: The Graduate Center
10:00am – 11:00a “Reflections on the Terrains of the Struggle for Black Freedom in the 21st Century”
Speaker: Mathylde Frontus, Ph.D. – Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University Chair: Brittany O’Neal, Ph.D. – Adjunct Professor, Lehman College, CUNY
11:00am – 12:30pm “The Movement for Black Lives”
Speaker: Sara Mokuria M.A., Senior Research Associate, UT Dallas Institute for Urban Policy Research
Chair: Zay D. Green M.A.,-HUMANITAS
LUNCH 12:30pm – 1:30pm
AFTERNOON SESSION 1:30pm – 6:00pm
1:35pm – 1:45pm
Greetings and Introduction: J. Everet Green – Mercy College
1:50pm – 2:50pm “I, John De Conqueror: Black Male Self-Recovery in the U.S.”
Speaker: John White Fordham University Chair: Julie Siestreem
3:00pm – 4:30pm “Hubert Harrison and the Militant ‘New Negro Movement’” Speaker: Jeffrey B. Perry, Ph.D. – Independent Scholar
Chair: Mathylde Frontus
4:30pm – 5:50pm Intersectionality and the Politics of Activism
Panel Discussion Chair: Brittany O’Neal – Lehman College Speakers: Sonia Vas Borges CUNY Graduate Center
Vicki Mokuria – Texas A&M
Sara Mokuria M.A., Senior Research Associate, UT Dallas Institute for
Urban Policy Research
Aileen Mokuria – Harvard
Saturday, OCTOBER 28, 2017 9:30am — 6:00pm
Mayday Community Space 176 St. Nicholas Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11237 ***NOT AT CUNY GRADUATE CENTER
MORNING SESSION 10:00am – 12:30pm
10:00am – 11:00am
“Grace Lee & Jimmy Boggs’ Oblique Counter-Practice” [R]evolution in Love & Struggle with Black Humanism
Speaker: Josef Mendoza, Ph.D. – Mercy College Chair: Aileen Mokuria – Harvard
11:00am – 12:30pm ‘I am Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired’: Critical Thought in the Interest of Material Equality”
Speaker: Brittany O’Neal, Ph.D. – Lehman College, CUNY Chair: Zay D. Green-HUMANITAS
1:40pm – 3:00pm
LUNCH 12:30pm – 1:30pm
AFTERNOON SESSION 1:40pm – 6:00pm “Islamic Genesis of Satyagraha: Gandhi’s Neglected Partners”
Speaker: Greg Moses, Ph. D. Texas State University Chair: Vicki Mokuria – Texas A&M
3:00pm – 4:00pm “Homeless and the Policing of the Commons”
Speaker: Odilka Santiago
4:00pm – 5:45pm Intersectionality and the Politics of Activism Panel Discussion
Speakers: Zay D. Green, J. Everet Green, Greg Moses, Brittany O’Neal
This conference is sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center and HUMANITAS: The Africana Ethical and Cultural Society.
For more information, please contact J. Everet Green at: everet@verizon.net
THIS IS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC