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Past CAS Events
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Symposium & Panel Discussion, "Elections, Democracy & Political Change in Africa.
Examining Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, & Kenya
Panelists:
Dr. Oumar Cherif Diop, Professor of English (Senegal)
Dr. Farooq Kperogi, Professor of Communication (Nigeria)
Dr. Samuel Abaidoo, Professor of Sociology (Ghana)
Ms. Mpuria-Richards, Consulting Group, KuFaaNa, (Kenya)
Dr. Nurudeen Akinyemi, Director of Center for Africana Studies (Moderator)
A (re)examination of the challenges, opportunities, implications, lessons learned
from and sustainability of western style democratic experiment in African countries,
and its ability to deliver economic dividends, political stability and peaceful coexistence
among Africa's very diverse societies.
Date: September 10, 2024
Time: 12:30pm - 1:45pm
Location: BB371 (Burrus Building)
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"Celebrating The Ties That Bind" Annual Cultural Festival
Join us this year as we celebrate and honor the cultural connections between Africa & the Diaspora. FREE authentic African & southern cuisine, fashion, music, dance & vendors providing a wide variety of goods & services available for purchase!
Performing this year: Soul Food Cypher, & southsidepoet. Fashion show featuring KSU staff & students!
Featuring DJ Rasyrious
We hope to see you there!
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024, 11am-4pm
Location: Carmichael Student Center University Rooms
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Year of Senegal Keynote Address, Q&A, & Panel Discussion
Dr. Souleymanr Bachir Diagne, Columbia University, will present a keynote address
titled, "Senegal, a tradition of Sufism," followed by a Q&A.
Panel discussion, "Muslim Brotherhoods in Senegal" will feature, Drs. Diagne, Laura
Cochrane, Central Michigan University, and Beth Buggenhagen, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 11am-1:00pm.
Location: Prillaman Hall, HS 2204.
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Year of Senegal Lecture Series, T.I.E.
As part of the Year of Senegal programming, and in honor of Women’s History Month, the Center for Africana Studies presents Senegalese artist, singer, poetess, songwriter and music producer, T.I.E. focusing on her research in experiential discovery questioning the function of the notion of gender in the balance of power in society, and Senegalese art and culture.
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 11am - 12:15pm.
Location: Burrus Building, BB380
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Come and join an event that will showcase an important part of the Black experience
from both historical and cultural perspectives while developing a greater sense of
awareness and understanding.
Sponsored by the French Club, the Center for Africana Studies, Engagement & Belonging,
and Black Studies.
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 7pm - 9pm.
Location: Carmichael Student Center, UV Rooms.
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Year of Senegal Black History Month Series
Join us for a discussion on the importance of ideas across disciplines & cultures
featuring:
Dasha Chapman (Dance), Kadian Callahan (Math), Trina Queen (Science, Tech, & Society),
Seneca Vaught (Black Studies), Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson (French)
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 3:30pm
Location: Social Sciences Bldg, Room 1019
Sponsored by: Black Studies Program, Global Education’s Year of Senegal, Center for Africana Studies
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Center for Africana Studies Lecture Series
Speaker: Dr. Jason Mueller, Assistant Professor of Sociology, KSU
Topic: "With friends like this, who needs enemies? US 'humanitarianism' in Somalia."
Date: Tuesday February 27, 2024
Time: 11:00am - 12:15pm
Location: English Building 182
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In Celebration of the Year of Senegal, this year's book club selection is "Brotherhood,"
by Senegalese writer, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
“Written with maturity and unmatched sensitivity and empathy, Brotherhood explores many aspects of life under the Islamic fundamentalist regime. This book is multilayered, told in two parallel narratives: one told through the letters of grieving mothers and second one told through the story of a group of friends who stand up to the barbarism of the Brotherhood through publishing the journal condemning the crimes of the group.
Book Club Discussion - Friday, February 16, 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm.
This will be a hybrid event. In-person option, ALC Bldg, Room 4201. Teams link will be sent to all participants.
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CivicGenius, Beyond Conflict: Shared Experiences, Stronger Democracy
Co-sponsored by The Norman J. Radow College of Humanities & Social Sciences School
of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding & Development; Interdisciplinary Studies Department;
Department of Criminology & Social Justice; Global Education Center for Africana Studies.
In partnership with Beyond Conflict & Civic Genius, we are bringing the wisdom of
Roelf Meyer & Mohammed Bhabha, and putting them in direct conversation with Americans
seeking to navigate our nation's own moment of polarization and uncertainty.
October 18, 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
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Spate of Coups in Africa: A Panel Discussion
APERO: The African Brown Bag Town Hall at UGA.
In reaction to the high number of attempted coups in Africa over the last three years,
the UGA African Studies Institute presents a virtual panel discussion. This special
APERO session is co-sponsored by the University System Africa Council (USAC). It will
feature faculty panelists from five institutions across the state discussing pertinent
issues related to the recent strings of coups in Africa. Some of these have been successful
in bringing the military into power in Burkina Faso, Chad, Gabon, Guinea, Mali, Niger,
and Sudan. Featured panelists on the virtual town hall are Dr. Nuru Akinyemi, Kennesaw
State University, Dr. Chris Ippolito, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Levar Smith,
Morehouse College, Dr. Cathy Skidmore-Hess, Georgia Southern University, and Dr. Charles
Ubah, Georgia College and State University.
Date: October 11, 2023, 12:30pm
Webinar Link: https://zoom.us/s/95417506553
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Celebrating The Ties That Bind Annual Festival, 2023
April 27, 2023, Bagwell College of Education 1st Floor Lobby
This year's festival featured FREE African and Southern cuisine, fashion, music, crafts, arts, jewelry, cooking demonstrations, performances, and a variety of Black-owned business!
Join us next year on April 18th, Kennesaw Campus Student Center, University Rooms
for a BIGGER & BETTER EXPERIENCE!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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Annual Book Club Discussion
Our annual book club discussion featuring Dr. Tiya Miles', The House on Diamond Hill:
A Cherokee Plantation Story.
Books were free of charge for the first 20 participants attending the discussion.
Date: February 15, 2023
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
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Africa Defines Architecture Lecture, Panel Discussion, & Gallery Reception
Lecture & Panel Discussion with Nmadili Oksumabua, The Community Planning & Design
Initiative, Africa
Date: February 13, 2023
Time: 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Gallery Reception
Date: February 13, 2023
Time: 4:45 - 6:00 p.m.
The Art of African Architecture exhibition was on view from February 13-17, 2023.
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Women Writers of Color - Film & Television
Dr. Anna Weinstein, Assistant Professor of Screenwriting, Department of English, faculty
& student research project presentation, "Women Screenwriters of Color."
Date: February 8, 2023
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Chief Vann House Historic Site Visit, Chatsworth, Georgia
"The most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation."
Saturday, November 5, 2022 - book club participants explored the site that is the subject of CAS' FY '23 book club discussion.
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| Tuesday & Thursday, September 6th & 8th, KSU Study Abroad students discuss the impact of their Summer '22 trip to Ghana. Engaging, enlightening, & intriguing. |
KSU Welcomes Olivier van Beemen
On April 4, 2022, author and investigative journalist, Olivier van Beemen, gave a
keynote address about his book, "Heineken in Africa." Mr. van Beemen joined KSU faculty
with expertise in Africana studies, Dr. Monica Swahn, Dr. Nurudeen Akinyemi, & Dr.
Brandon Lundy to discuss artisanal alcohol making in West Africa and of the significant
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9th Annual AADS Student Research & Community Engagement Virtual Conference
Welcome Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs!
AADS Student Research & Community Engagement Virtual Conference, "Mothers and the
Movement."
Dr. Tubbs joined us for the AADS conference on Thursday, March 24, 2022. 9:00am - 7:45pm.
Dialogues on Mothering: Transgressive Politics of Black Moms
Popular Culture, Karens in Charge
Racial Politics on Mothering Then & Now - Round-table Discussion.
Keynote address, 12:00pm-1:30pm, ALC Auditorium, Room 1100 or virtually via AADS YouTube
& Facebook.
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Virtual Book Club Discussion
The Center for Africana Studies hosted a campus-wide virtual bookclub discussion of:
Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers, Flatiron Books, 2021
Date: October 20, 2021
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Campus lecture by Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, a Nigerian human rights scholar and activist on "Confronting Inequality to Promote Change: A Case Study of Women in Nigeria Since Independence."
Date: October 8, 2021
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Virtual Book Club Discussion
The Center for Africana Studies held a virtual book club discussion of:
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Vintage Press, 2017
Date: March 19, 2021
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Let's Talk with Dr. Krishauna Hines-Gaither
A virtual workshop series featuring Dr. Krishauna Hines-Gaither
Dates:
Feb. 23, 2021
March 2, 2021
March 17, 2021
March 30, 2021
April 14, 2021
April 17, 2021
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ADL’s A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute Training Program
Dates:
February 26, 2021
March 12, 2021
March 26, 2021
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CAS' Conversation Series exploring topics of interest to the KSU Community. Faculty, staff, & students...Let's Talk!
Date: Oct 9, 2020
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Collaboration with CIFAL-Atlanta Developing Sustainable Development Ambassadors. Sixteen KSU students, undergraduate & graduate ambassadors, selected for the inaugural program.
Date: December 5, 2019 - June 30, 2020
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2020 Civil Rights Conference
"Rethinking Human Rights in Times of Crisis: Local & Global Perspectives of Resilience
and Dignity.
Dates: March 12 - 14, 2020
Location: KSU
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23rd Annual Southeast Model African Union
Hosted the 23rd Annual Southeast Model African Union simulation conference. 300+ students from universities across Georgia and one national university participated in the simulation.
Date: November 7-9, 2019
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Celebration of cultures of Africa through Visual and Performance Arts. Co-sponsored with the African Student Association.
Date: November 8, 2019
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1619-2019 400 Years Commemoration of Africans in America
Saturday, October 12, 2019, Historic Old Zion Baptist Church Museum, Marietta
11:00am-12pm, KSU Student Panel
Rhapsody's Revenue Dance Ensemble
5:00pm: 1619 Commemorative Concert featuring FIsk University Jubilee Singers and Dr.
Oral Moses
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A Celebration of African American Life, History & Culture
KSU Student Panel: "Ghana: From Door of No Return to Year of Return."
Tribute to Toni Morrison: Selected readings and discussion of Morrison's Works by
Drs. Tony Grooms, Griselda Thomas, Gina Bradley, & Cherif Diop.
Bunce Island Exhibit Presentation by Dr. Dan Paracka.
Gumbo Mix: The Food, Music & Art of the African Diaspora featuring - KSU Gospel Choir,
North Paulding High School Choir, Georgia Spiritual Ensemble, twelve25 Band, spoken
word performances, & Vendor exhibition.
Date: October 10-12, 2019
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US-Africa Trade & Investment Global Summit
Collaboration with US-Africa Trade Council. Participants from across the United States & across Africa.
Date: September 26-28, 2019
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Marietta Museum of History Civil Rights Project
Collaboration with the English Department (Prof. Rochelle Cox) and the Marietta Museum of History. Sponsorship of student research and presentation to the Marietta community "of" and "to" local Civil Rights Icons.
Date: May 3, 2019
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Welcome Professor Edward Ahmed Mitchell, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
Georgia Chapter
Faculty Development Seminar: CAADS-CORED Collaboration: "Building a Community of Respect
for Human Dignity."
Date: April 25, 2019
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CAADS & Gender & Women's Studies Collaboration and the College of Humanities & Social
Sciences
Symposium on "Trauma & Resilience"
Keynote lecture and class visits by author, Aminata Forna / Book discussion of Forna's
"The Hired Man: A Novel."
Date: April 25, 2019
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Aminata Forna's "The Hired Man: A Novel."
Date: April 15, 2019
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M.A.D.E. (Making a Difference Everywhere)
Sponsorship of Student Community Engagement
M.A.D.E. - An alternative spring break of community service and civic engagement in
New Orleans.
Date: March 30 - April 5, 2019
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Faculty Spotlight - Focus on Faculty
Dr. Oral Moses (Emeritus Professor) Lecture & musical performance, "The Negro Spiritual:
Songs of Resistance and Resilience |
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Campus lecture by Anthony Grooms on "The Vain Conversations"
Date: October 29, 2018
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Dr. Anthony Grooms, "The Vain Conversation: A Novel"
Date: October 26, 2018
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Faculty Spotlight - Focus on Faculty
Addressing Intercultural Faith and interfaith discussions in the Classroom. Keynote lecture: Dr. Abdullahi An-Na'im, Emory University, "Living the Values We Seek to Uphold."
Date: April 27, 2018
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Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Award-Winning Film "90 Days," A Film by Nathan Hale Williams & Jennia Fredrique Aponte
Co-sponsored with the Department of English
Date: April 10, 2018
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Co-sponsored with the Interdisciplinary Studies Department and the African & African
Diaspora Studies program
- The Art of African Architecture week-long Poster Exhibit and Panel Discussion with area architects.
- Campus lecture on Brazilian Women's Movement
- Uganda Youth Choir Concert
- African Cultural Night - Visual and Performance Art; Taste of Africa; Fashion Show
- Film screening and panel discussion
Date: March 19-22, 2018
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"African Women in the Judiciary" Dr. Josephine J. Dawuni, Howard University, Washington, DC. Co-sponsored with the Interdisciplinary Studies Department and the African & African Diaspora Studies program
Date: March 1, 2018
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Michele Alexander's "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindedness
Date: February 9, 2018
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Southeast Model African Union Conference
Georgia Southern University
CAS Director, Nuru Akinyemi, led fifteen (15) students to the Southeast Model African Union simulation. The KSU team represented Algeria, Niger, and Sao Tome and Principe, winning several individual and team "outstanding" awards. Fifteen (15) universities participated in the Southeast Model.
Date: November 9-11, 2017
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African Diaspora Student Leadership Forum: Haitian Youth Leadership Forum (HYLF), co-sponsored with the Consul General of Haiti in Atlanta.
The HYLF brought more than 200 participants to campus, including middle and high school students and their parents, employers, career counselors and mentors. The focus of the HYLF included college and career counseling, job interview role-playing, and leadership training. (225 participants)
Date: September 23, 2017
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Faculty Development Seminar
"Interfaith Dialogues"
Keynote speaker & expert facilitator, Dr. Tania Saeed, University of Lahore, Pakistan. This seminar focused on interfaith dialogues.
Date: May 26-27, 2017
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African Diaspora Student Leadership Forum with student panels and participants from
across the university; a poster exhibit; film screening; faculty panel discussion.
Date: March 20-24, 2017.
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International Model African Union Conference
Washington, DC
CAS Director led KSU students to very successful International Model African Union simulation conference, hosted by Howard University, Washington, DC. Seventeen (17) students represented Cameroon, Rwanda and Uganda, winning several individual and team "outstanding" awards. Over forty (40) universities from across the United States, Canada and Kenya participated in the simulation conference.
Date: February 23-26, 2017
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Teaching Africa Workshop for Georgia 6th through 12th Grade Teachers
The Teaching Africa Workshop strategically brings together seasoned experts representing the diverse multidisciplinary nature of African studies - from History, Political Science, Literature, Foreign Languages, Visual & Performance Arts, Anthropology, Geography, Science Education, and Information Technology. Colleagues spend months deliberating and designing the framework and contents of the curriculum for this workshop with keen awareness of and attention to the Georgia and national performance standards.
2-1/2 day workshop
1 PLU
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