OCT 28/29: THIRD ANNUAL PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION IN AFRICANA TRADITIONS CONFERENCE: RACE, RECONSTRUCTION, AND REPARATIONS
Friday, October 28, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Center for Place, Culture and Politics
The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
Rooms C201/C202
365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York
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Saturday, October 29, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Mayday Community Space
176 St. Nicholas Avenue Brooklyn, New York
This Third Annual Philosophy and Religion in Africana Traditions (PRAT) conference will explore the struggle for liberation of African descendant peoples as demonstrated through the instrumentalities of the philosophical and religious imaginations. Participants will discuss visions, visionaries, and the quest for personal, social, national and political transformation as demonstrated in the fight for emancipation, the Promises and Prospects of Reconstruction and the quest for Reparations. Topics under consideration include Race, Religion and Economics in 19th – 20th century discourse, Reconstruction and Economic Redistribution then and now, Reparations and National Identity, Black Lives Matter and the prospects of 21st Century Political and Cultural Revolutions.
PROGRAM
Friday, OCTOBER 28, 2016
9:00am ‐‐ 6:00pm
The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
Rooms C201/C202 365 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
MORNING SESSION 9:20am – 12:20am
9:20 – 9:50am
Greetings and Opening Statement: J. Everet Green – Mercy College Greetings: Mary Taylor – CUNY: The Graduate Center
9:50am – 11:00am
Reparations: The Annihilation of The African American Community
Speaker: Matthew Hutcherson, Ph.D. – Paine College
Chair: Sonia Vas Borges, Ph.D. Student – CUNY: The Graduate Center
11:05am – 12:15am
W.E.B. Du Bois, Reconstruction, and the Remaking of the Modern American State
Speaker: Elvira Basevich, Ph.D. Student – CUNY: The Graduate Center
Chair: Mathylde Frontus, Ph.D. – Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University
LUNCH 12:15pm – 1:20pm
AFTERNOON SESSION 1:25pm – 6:00pm
1:20pm – 1: 30pm
Greetings and Introduction: J. Everet Green – Mercy College
1:40pm – 2:40pm
Radical thought and Anti-slavery discourse
Speaker: Anwar Uhuru Ph.D. Student – Saint Johns University Chair: Julie Siestreen
2:45pm – 4:00pm
Hubert Harrison and the Founding of the Militant ‘New Negro Movement A Slide Presentation
Speaker: Jeffrey B. Perry, Ph.D. – Independent Scholar
Chair: Jameliah Shorter-Bourhanou, Ph.D. – Georgia College and State University
4:05pm – 4:45pm
The Missing Commonality of White Race Scholars’ Anti-racism Speaker: Blanche Radford Curry Ph.D. – Fayetteville State University Chair: Zay D. Green, M.A.
4:50pm – 5:50pm
The Meaning of Black Suffering in the Age of Obama Student Panel
Moderator: Brittany O’Neal, Ph.D. – Lehman College, CUNY
Saturday, OCTOBER 29
Mayday Community Space 176 St. Nicholas Street Brooklyn, NY 11237
**Please note that day 2 (Saturday) will NOT be held at the CUNY Graduate Center!
MORNING SESSION 9:30am – 12:10pm
9:35am – 9:45am
Welcome: J. Everet Green – Mercy College
9:50am – 10:55am
Universalism and White Supremacy
Speaker: Jameliah Shorter-Bourhanou, Ph.D. – Georgia College and State University Chair: Anwar Uhuru – Saint Johns University
11:00am – 12:10pm
Towards a Transformative Black Liberation Philosophy: Theological and Meta- Theological Considerations in William R. Jones’ Humanocentric Theism
Speaker: Brittany O’Neal, Ph.D. – Lehman College, CUNY
Chair: Sonia Vaz Borges Ph.D. Student – CUNY: The Graduate Center
LUNCH 12:15pm – 1:20pm
AFTERNOON SESSION 1:30pm – 5:30pm
1:30pm – 2:40pm
The Meaning of Black Suffering in the Age of Obama Student Panel
Moderator: Brittany O’Neal, Ph.D. – Lehman College, CUNY
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Black Liberational Aspirations and the Moral and Pragmatic Aspects of Military Technology
Speaker: Damion Scott, M.A. – CUNY \City College Chair: J. Everet Green, Ph.D. – Mercy College
4:10pm – 5:15pm
Race Reconstruction and Reparations Panel Discussion
Speakers: J. Everet Green
Zay D. Green Sonia Vas Borges Brittany O’Neal Damion Scott Anwar Uhuru
This event is sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. It is free and open to the public.