Mr. Obed Yaw Asamany will present a paper entitled, “Indigeneity and Finance: The Case of Ghana’s Formalization of Susu Banks”, on March 1, 2018 at the Harriet Tubman Institute from 2:30 – 4:00. Abstract: For centuries the people of Ghana have relied on traditional collectives called Susus (coops) to do banking. Today the majority of […]
Dr. Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin will present a paper entitled, ““Africa is Here”: Afropolitan Imagineering, Global Presence and the White Gaze.” on February 15, 2018 at the Harriet Tubman Institute from 2:30 – 4:00. Abstract: Branded as “Africa’s first luxury perfume”, the Scent of Africa perfume is a “scented declaration of progress”. Particularly fascinating is the […]
Dr. Husseina Dinani will present a paper entitled, “Gendered Migrant Labour: Serial Monogamy and the Political Economy of Cash Crops and Wage Labour in post-WWII Southern Tanganyika,” on February 8, 2018 at the Harriet Tubman Institute from 2:30 – 4:00. Abstract: My presentation examines how the expansion and intensification of a male dominated cash economy […]
Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo will present a paper entitled, “The Intellectual Origins of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Emancipative Philosophy”, on January 18, 2018 at the Harriet Tubman Institute from 2:30 – 4:30. Abstract: Martin Luther King, Jr. is without doubt the greatest American figure in 20th century. A Baptist priest of vast intellectual depth and complexity, […]
Guylaine Pétrin will present a paper entitled, “Using Genealogical Tools for Biographical Research,” on January 11, 2018 at the Harriet Tubman Institute from 2:30 – 4:00. Abstract: This presentation will focus on how historians can use tools such as Ancestry and FamilySearch.org to research the lives of the formerly enslaved. Some general tools will be […]
Dr. Vermonja R. Alston will present a paper entitled, “Afropolitanism and the Literary and Popular Imagination,” on November 30, 2017 at the Harriet Tubman Institute from 2:30 – 4:30. Abstract: In the social sciences, the concept of cosmopolitanism has come under increasing criticism as a mask for globalization, neo-colonialism, or a shape shifting, multiculturalism. Despite […]
Dr. Daniel McNeil will present a paper entitled, “Irrelevant No More? Wrestling with Diasporic Thought in the Great White North,” on November 23, 2017 at the Harriet Tubman Institute from 2:30 – 4:30. Abstract: This talk places Richard Iton’s In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era in […]
Dr. Yvonne Brown will present a paper entitled, “Making Sense of the Jamaica Hansard, 1920-1944: A Critical Analysis of the Structure of Power, Authority and Influence Under Crown Colony Government,” on November 16, 2017 at the Harriet Tubman Institute from 2:30 – 4:30. Abstract: In constructing a political biography of a legislative councillor who served […]
Dr. Michael Ralph will present a paper entitled, “The Treasury of Weary Souls” on November 9, 2017 at the Harriet Tubman Institute from 2:30 – 4:30. Abstract: The Treasury of Weary Souls contains more than 1300 policy records of enslaved workers in America’s most lucrative and dangerous antebellum industries. After the slave trade to the […]
Dr. Henry B. Lovejoy will present a paper entitled, “Linking Open Historical Data of the African Diaspora: Methods of Database Design and the Language of Metadata Repositories,” on November 2, 2017 at the Harriet Tubman Institute from 2:30 – 4:30. Abstract African diaspora history has a robust series of digital projects that are arguably advancing the […]
