Conference Schedule: Friday, April 4, 2014
Panel Session A: 11:00-12:30
A1: Resistance and Nationalist Expressions in Africa and the African Diaspora, SAC 1.106
Chair: Moyo Okediji, Art and Art History Department, The University of Texas at Austin
Between Afrocentricity and Afrolatinidad: Identity Construction as a Revolutionary Practice
Ashley D. Aaron, San Francisco State University
Revolutionizing the Homeland: The Philosophical Relevance of Nigerians in Diaspora
Oladele Abiodun Balogun, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria
Re-Membering Samson OtherWise: Resistance, Revolution, and Relationality within The Carnivalesque-Creolized Chronotope of Judges 13-16
A. Paige Rawson, Drew University
Reconstructing Jamaican Nationalism: Five Centuries of Culture, Resistance, and Identity Formation
Ben Weiss, The University of Texas at Austin
Nobody Knows De Troubles I’ve Seen: A Discourse Analysis of Selected Afro-American Protest Music and Their Relevance to Contemporary Issues
Stephen Olusoji, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Back to Africa: Roy Campbell’s Voorslag (1926) and its Political Protest against Racial Inequality in the Union of South Africa
Michael Sharp, Universidad de Puerto Rico
A2: Music, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora, SAC 1.118
Chair: Steven J. Salm, Department of History, Xavier University of Louisiana
Analysis of Forms and Instruments in Bembe Music: A Study of Obafemi Owode, L.G. Abeokuta Ogun State
Oni Abayomi, Waterman College, Nigeria
Aganyin Musical Tradition in Lagos State, Nigeria: A Diasporic Approach
Samuel Toyin Ajose, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Queens in Flight: Fela’s Afrobeat Queens, Performance and Transnational Imagination in the Production of “Black” Feminist Diasporas
Dotun Ayobade, The University of Texas at Austin
Reggae Music as Expression of African Culture in Diaspora
C. Izeoma Chinda, Rivers State College Of Arts and Science
C.D. Chuku, Rivers State College Of Arts and Science
Amugo Frank, Rivers State College Of Arts and Science
The Profits of Slavery and the Furtherance of Music
David Hunter, The University of Texas at Austin
Fela on Broadway: Seeing Fela Anikulapo Kuti through the Eyes of the Fela! Musical
Albert Oikelome, University of Lagos, Nigeria
A Marriage of Inconvenience: Miriam Makeba’s Marriage to Stokely Carmichael and Its Impact on Her Recording Career in the United States
Tyler Fleming, University of Louisville
A3: Africans Abroad: The Homeland and the Politics of Relevance, SAC 2.120
Chair: Mickie Mwanzia Koster, The University of Texas at Austin at Tyler
Nigerians in Diaspora and the Challenges of Good Governance: A Rescue Mission
Lalude Goke Abidemi, Fountain University, Nigeria
Visa Lottery Versus Brain Drain, and Africa in Diaspora: Depleting Effects on Vocational Artisanship in Africa
Tajudeen Adewumi Adebisi, Osun State University, Nigeria
The Bantu Matrilineal Belt: Dismantling Notions of Women’s Perpetual Subjugation in Diaspora
Rhonda M. Gonzales, The University of Texas at Austin at San Antonio
Christine Saidi, Kutztown University
Catherine Cymone Fourshey, Susquehanna University
Redirecting Second-generation Americans: Seeking Authority and Authenticity in North Africa and the Middle East
Maysan Haydar
The Remittance Intentions of Second-Generation Ghanaian-Americans
Kirstie Kwarteng
Brothers of the Trade: Intersections of Racial Framing and Identity Processes upon African-Americans and African Immigrants in America–Ancestral Kinsmen of the American Slave Trade
Veeda V. Williams, Prairie View A&M University
A4: Human Rights and the Diaspora, SAC 2.302
Chair: Celine A. Jacquemin, Department of Political Science, St. Mary’s University
Human Rights as Natural Rights: The Quest for a Theoretical Grounding
Wanjala S. Nasong’o, Rhodes College
Unraveling Somalia’s Global Human Rights Narratives
Amentahru Wahlrab, The University of Texas at Austin at Tyler
Abuse of Human Rights of Africans in Diaspora
V.O. Adefarasin, Olabisi Olabanjo University
Human Rights in the African Diaspora
Richard Agyei, University of Education, Ghana
Untangling Discursive Reproduction: Negras, Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in Brazil
Ugo Felicia Edu, University of California, San Francisco/University of California, Berkeley
Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Southwestern Nigeria: Myth or Reality
Adeniyi, Emmanuel Olufemi, Federal College of Education, Nigeria
Dada, Olubukola Christianah, Federal College of Education, Nigeria
Human Rights and Physical Capital (Environmental Infrastructure and Social Services) in Nigeria
Jonathan Ogwuche, Benue State University, Nigeria
A5: Colonial Processes And Inter-Group Relations, SAC 3.116
Chair: Charles Thomas, United States Military Academy at West Point
Ikula: The Kuba Personal Knife and Colonial Resistance
Letitia Hopkins, The University of Texas at Austin
The British Colonial Rule and its Implications on Intra-Ethnic Relations among the Yorubas in Southwestern Part of Nigeria
Gbade Ikuejube, Adeyemi College of Education, Nigeria
Beyond Diasporic Times and Spaces: Identity Formations among Eritrean Protestants during Colonial Times
Rahel Kuflu, Södertörn University, Sweden
More Than a Victory: The Bechuanaland Protectorate and British Colonialism
Ian Marsh, University of Central Florida
Reimagining Space and Diaspora in Colonial Lagos
Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, New York University
‘Where the Negros Reign’: African Aspects of Colonial Veracruz, 1580-1700
J.M.H. Clark, The Johns Hopkins University
Panel Session B: 2:00-3:30 PM
B1: Literary and Cultural Expressions of Self and Others, SAC 1.106
Chair: Xavier Livermon, Africa and African Diaspora Department, The University of Texas at Austin
Developing a Framework for Translating Yoruba Novels: Analysis and Synthesis of Translation Strategies in Two English Versions of D.O. Fagunwa’s Igbo Olódùmarè
Samiat Olubunmi Abubakre, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Cultural Expressions: Africanisms in the Languages of the Greater Caribbean
Ann Albuyeh, Universidad de Puerto Rico
African Kinship Across the Atlantic: A Study of Ben Igwe’s Against the Odds
Itany Ede Egbung, University of Calabar, Nigeria
Socio-Political Realities and Technique in Wale Okediran’s Tenants of the
House
Ezinwanyi Adam, Babcock University, Nigeria
J. A. Rogers: Writing Africana World Biography and History Within Western Civilization
Thabiti Asukile, Independent Historian
Frantz Fanon and Richard Wright: Diaspora as the Nexus for Intellectual Comparison
Juan Carlos Suarez, The University of Texas at Austin
B2: Children and Youth, SAC 1.118
Chair: Isabel P. B. Fêo Rodrigues, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Exploring the Social Protection Right of the African Child in Diaspora
Rachael Ojima Agarry, Kwara State University, Nigeria
Relevance of Parental Cultural and Socio Economic Background in Nutritional Status of Pre-Schoolers
Morounkeji Folarinle Fasakin, Adeyemi College of Education, Nigeria
Bridget Ebunoluwa Adeyanju
Eat, Speak, and Play Like Our Ancestors: A Case of Children from Madagascar in America
Riijasoa Andriamanana, University of New Mexico
Impact of Tradition and Culture on Family Dynamics and Physical Disabilities
Adeniyi, Emmanuel Olufemi, Federal College of Education, Nigeria
Olubukola Christianah Dada, Federal College of Education, Nigeria
Child Rights in an African Socio-Cultural Context
Olabisi Adedigba, Kwara State University, Nigeria
Crisis of Identity: A Linguistic Study of the Attitude of the Younger Generation of Africans in the Diaspora
Temitope Aboidun Balogun, Osun State University
B3: Slavery and Enslavement in Africa and the African Diaspora, SAC 2.120
Chair: Edward A. Alpers, University of California, Los Angeles
Slavery and Colonialism in Africa Hindered Development: The Base for Underdevelopment in Nigeria
Abdulsalami M. Deji, Taraba State University, Nigeria
From Slavery to African Diaspora in the Arabian Peninsula
Iliya Ibrahim Gimba, Taraba State University, Nigeria
Remapping the Journey from Freedom to Slavery to Diaspora
Alaine S. Hutson, Huston-Tillotson University
Against all Odds: Slavery and the African Diaspora
Rosalie Black Kiah, Norfolk State University
Slavery and Its Apparatuses: Machado de Assis’s “Pai contra mãe”
Fernando de Sousa Rocha, Middlebury College
Black Women, Blasphemy, and the African Diaspora in Mexico City, 1600-1610
Rhonda M. Gonzales, University of Texas at San Antonio
Dehumanization, Enslavement, and Violence against African Americans in American History
Onaiwu W. Ogbomo, Western Michigan University
B4: Home and Homelands, SAC 3.302
Chair: Sati Fwatshak, University of Jos
Colonial Existence, Home, and Nationalism Among ex-British Cameroons’ Exiles in the United States
Fonkem Achankeng I, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Food as a Medium of Spatial Reteritorialisation: Interrogating How Senegalese Migrants in Durban Recreate ‘Home’ in the Transnational Host Context
Bilola Nicoline Fomunyam, University of KwaZulu-Natal
African Diaspora Organizations and Homeland Development: Which Diaspora for Whose Development?
Odoziobodo Severus Ifeanyi, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria
Ihemeje Chidiebere Godswealth, University Putra Malaysia
"Home! Sweet Home!": African Diaspora and Reverse Migration in the 21st Century
Donald Omagu, City University of New York
A Diasporic Imagining of Homeland on the African Continent
Jessica Stephenson, Kennesaw State University
Reverse Migrations and the Concept of Homeland in African Diaspora Studies
Osei Boakye and Wilhelmina J. Donkoh, KNUST, Kumasi & International History Department
Panel Session C: 3:45-5:15 PM
C1: Business, Trade and the Building of an African Diaspora, SAC 1.106
Chair: Juliet E.K. Walker, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin
De Facto Preferential Lending: How South Sudan’s Microfinance Industry Unwittingly Fostered Divisions Along Wartime Diaspora Lines
Crystal Murphy, Chapman University
Comparative Analysis of African Traditional Economic Systems and Micro-Financing
Iheanyi N. Osondu, Fort Valley State University, Georgia
Diaspora Income and Business Start-Up in Nigeria: Issues and Perspectives
Bolanle Clara Simeon-Fayomi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Abimbola Olugbenga Fayomi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Business, Brokers and Borders: Understanding the Structure of West African Trade Diasporas
Olivier Walther, Rutgers University
Local Production, Global Entanglement: Early Southern West African Societies in the Trans-Saharan Trade (c. 1100-1500 A.D.)
Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, Rice University
Diaspora Remittances and the Development of the Global South
Dahida Deewua Philip, University of Abuja, Nigeria
C2: Asia and the Indian Ocean in the African Diaspora, SAC 1.118
Chair: Indrani Chatterjee, History Department, The University of Texas at Austin
Pushing the Paradigm: Locating Scholarship on the Siddis and Kaffirs
Sureshi Jayawardene, Northwestern University
Interrogating Identity: A Study of Siddi and Hadrami Diaspora in Hyderabad City, India
Khatija Khader, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Maritime Exchange Networks and Urban-Centered States in Ancient East Africa and South Asia
Chapurukha Kusimba, American University
China’s Emerging Multinational Corporations in Africa: Are These ‘International Vampires’ Different from their Western Counterparts?
Augustine Ayuk, Clayton State University
Coolitude in an Era of Creolisation and Cultural Globalisation: An Epistemological Perspective
Angela A. Ajimase, University of Calabar, Nigeria
The Chagossians: Africans Twice Removed
Peter Harris, The University of Texas at Austin
C3: African Mobility in the Early Modern Iberian World, SAC 2.302
Chair: Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin
Soldiers of His Majesty: Inter-Imperial Rivalries and Black Carib Militarization in Central America’s Age of Revolutions
Ernesto Mercado-Montero, The University of Texas at Austin at Austin
Royal Subjects: Old African Christians in the Atlantic World
Chloe Ireton, The University of Texas at Austin
Negros Libres in Early-Modern Manila: Rethinking the Significance of Blackness in the Seventeenth Century Spanish Philippines
Kristie Flannery, The University of Texas at Austin
The Diasporic Birth of a Portuguese-based Creole in West Africa, 1500-1600s
Isabel P. B. Fêo Rodrigues, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
The African Diaspora in Britain, 1500-1640
Miranda Kaufmann, Independent Scholar, United Kingdom
C4: Popular Culture in the African Diaspora, SAC 3.116
Chair: Steven J. Salm, Department of History, Xavier University of Louisiana
Trauma and Reconciliation: Mediating Diaspora Identities and Relations in New African Cinema Spaces
Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, Ithaca College
Perception of the New World Experience and Cultural Interference in Selected Nigerian Video Films
Arinpe Adejumo, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
The Image, the Identity, and the Crisis: Nollywood Films as a Case Study
Joke Muyiwa Fadirepo, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria
Nigerian Representation via the New African Diaspora Film
Olaocha Nwadiuto Nwabara, Michigan State University
Beyond the Act: Theatre, Culture and Ifa Corpus. A Tradoslamichristic Interrogation
Taofiq Olaide Nasir, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Cultivating “True Sons of the Soil”: War, Diaspora, and Popular Culture in Sierra Leone
Samuel Mark Anderson, University of California Los Angeles
Skill-Drain or Skill-Gains: Diaspora Intervention, Sports Development and Wealth Redistribution in Nigeria
Oyetunde Samson Oyebode, Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Nigeria
Dinner Reception, 5:30-6:30 PM
Student Activity Center Ballroom, 2.410
(Registered conference participants only)
Keynote Lecture, 6:45-7:45
UTC 2.112A
“Diaspora as Black Politics”
Professor Edmund T. Gordon
Chair and Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
Edmund T. Gordon is chair of the African and African Diaspora Studies Department and Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology of the African Diaspora at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Gordon is also the former Associate Vice President of Thematic Initiatives and Community Engagement of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement as well as former Director of the Center for African and African American Studies at The University of Texas. His teaching and research interests include: Culture and power in the African Diaspora, gender studies (particularly Black males), critical race theory, race education, and the racial economy of space and resources. His publications include Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community, 1998 UT Press. Dr. Gordon received his Doctorate in Social Anthropology from Stanford University and his Master's of Arts from Stanford University in Anthropology and Master's degree in Marine Sciences from the University of Miami.
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Panel Session D: 9:00-10:30 AM
D1: Literature and Defining Diasporic Identities, GAR 0.120
Chair: Barbara Harlow, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Nigeria, the Long-Armed Woman: Gender as Diasporic Anxiety in Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl
Kim Sasser, Wheaton College
Globalization in the Making: the Role of Afro-Arabic Literary Writings in the Medieval Period
Adam Adebayo Sirajudeen and Aliy Abdulwahid Adebisi
From Juan to Juan: The Triumph of Poet and Subject in Juan Latino's Austrias Carmen
Chantell Smith, University of Georgia
No Kin, No Country: Rethinking the Black Diasporic Subject in Melville’s Moby-Dick
Sam C. Tenorio, Northwestern University
Ethno-Linguistic Analysis of Some Selected Ijesa Proverbs and the Conceptualisation of “Agidi-Ijesa”
Olaosebikan T.O. Wende, Osun State University
New Diasporan History: A Study of Selected Poems of Derek Walcott
Julia Udofia, University of Uyo
D2: Festivals, Celebrations, and Performance, GAR 0.128
Chair: Neville Hoad, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Traditional African Festival and Caribbean Carnival: A Comparative Analysis
Ismaila Rasheed Adedoyin, University of Lagos, Nigeria
From Feasts to Festivals: Diasporic Divisions in Trinidad Orisha
N. Fadeke Castor, Texas A&M University
Where There Is No Second Language: The Problems Faced by International Tourists During the Calabar Christmas Festival
Gloria Mayen Umukoro, University of Calabar, Nigeria
Dance as an Expressive Culture: The Example of Adamu Orisa (Eyo) Festival in Lagos State
Dosumu Lawal Yeside, Lagos State University, Nigeria
From Witchdoctor To Pastor: The Male Preacher Figure and Cultural Continuities in Nigerian Religious Performances
Abimbola Adelakun, The University of Texas at Austin
African Indigenous Knowledge: Dissemination of West African Dance and Drum, Cultural Commodification and Racism
Collette Murray, York University
D3: Brazil: Navigating Boundaries, Representing Blackness, GAR 0.132
Chair: João H. Costa Vargas, Africa and African Diaspora Department, The University of Texas at Austin
Axé Politics: The Political Implications of Candomblé Healing Practices
Farid Suárez, New York University
Traditional is Political: The Quotidian Politics of Baianas de Acarajé
Vanessa Castañeda, New York University
The Portrayal of Baianas in Two Moments of Brazilian Literature
Rafael Cesar, New York University
Beyond Mãe Preta: The Presence of Black Women in the Imprensa Negra Brasileira (Black Press of Brazil), 1910 – 1937
Wendi Muse, New York University
Deterritorialized Temporalities: African Diasporic Narratives by Women Writers from Brazil and Guadeloupe
Hapsatou Wane, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Constructing an Afro-Brazilian Identity in Nineteenth Century Ceará, Brazil
Tshombe Miles, Baruch College
D4: Roundtable: Being and Belonging: the African Diaspora and Representation in the Smithsonian, GAR 2.112
Chair: Ariana Curtis, Curator, Latino Studies, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
Ariana A. Curtis, Curator, Latino Studies
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Fath Davis Ruffins, Curator of African American History and Culture
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Deborah L. Mack, Associate Director Community & Constituent Services
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Tashima Thomas, Summer 2013 Afro-Latino Fellow
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Diana Baird N'Diaye, Cultural Heritage Specialist/ Curator
D5: Representations of African Diasporic Religious Traditions, GAR 2.128
Chair: Tshepo Masango Chery, African and African Diasporic Studies Department, The University of Texas at Austin
Ethiopianism and Black Women in Pauline Hopkins's Mythological Vision
Elizabeth J. West, Georgia State University
Religious Borrowing, Intertextuality and Creolization in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory
Maha Marouan, University of Alabama
The Relevance of 'Alasalatu' and Celestial Church of Christ of Oriade Local Council Development Area with the Traditional Culture in the African Diaspora
Hannah T.K. Ishola, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education
Bolanle N. Akeusola, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education
The Influence of Islam on the Slave Trade in West Africa: The Need for Re-Examination
Rafiu Ibrahim Adebayo, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
African Muslims in Diaspora
L.O. Abbas, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
The Influence of Religion and Traditional Culture on Creolization in the African Diaspora: The Nigerian Experience
Ezekiel Kehinde Akano, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Nigeria
D6: Roundtable: Africans in Southwest Asia: On the Meaning of “Kaffir” (Again), GAR 3.116
Chair: Sumit Guha, History Department, The University of Texas at Austin
Melisa Schindler, State University of New York, Buffalo
Omar H. Ali, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Pedro Machado, Indiana University, Bloomington
Sureshi Jayawardene, Northwestern University
Panel Session E: 10:45-12:15
E1: Identity Formation and the Homeland, GAR 0.120
Chair: Emilio Zamora, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin
In Search of a ‘Homeland’ in Africa: the Politics of Diasporans’ Resettlement Efforts in Ghana
Kwame Essien, Lehigh University
George M Bob-Milliar, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana
A Kind of Homecoming, 2013
Kevin Brooks, North Dakota State University
Reverse Migrations and the Concept of Homeland in African Diaspora Studies
Wilhemina Donkoh, KNUST, Kumasi & International History Department, London
Homeless at Heart, a Comparative Study of the Physical and Cultural Concept of the (Home) Land as Depicted in Lopes’ Le Lys et le Flamboyant and Ndiaye’s En famille
Yasmina Fawaz, The University of Texas at Austin
Paradoxes and Contradictions between African Diasporas and Resident Africans in the Search for an Identity: A Nigerian Outlook
Segun Osinibi, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria
‘I Am What I Eat and Wear When It Matters’: Identity Politics in the African Diaspora
Bridget Teboh, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Connecting with Your People: The Case of Young Igbo Diaspora
Uchenna Onuzulike, Howard University
E2: Gender and Women in Africa and the African Diaspora, GAR 0.128
Chair: Hauwau Evelyn Yusuf, Kaduna State University, Kaduna Nigeria
Revisiting (Neo)-Colonial Narratives: A Critical Examination of Ethnicity and Gender in the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
Golaleh Pashmforoosh, University of Manitoba
Race, Gender, and Migration in the Revolutionary Caribbean
Michele Reid-Vazquez, University of Pittsburgh
Mutations of Slavery: Prostitution and Women Trafficking in Contemporary Nigerian Novels
Bosede F. Afolayan, University of Lagos
Mammies, Mulattoes, Morenas, and the Media: Past and Present Depictions of Women of the African Diaspora
Raven J. Crowder, University of Houston-Victoria
Afro-German Women and the Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer Institute
Tiffany N. Florvil, University of New Mexico
“Use What You Have to Get What You Want--Sex for Work”: The Ghanaian Perspective of Sexual Harassment in the Work Place
Yaa Konadu-Yiadom, University of Cape Coast
State Violence, Radical Protest and the Black/African Female Body
Oluwakanyinsola O. Obayan, The University of Texas at Austin
E3: Religious Expressions in Africa and the African Diaspora, GAR 0.132
Chair: Steven J. Salm, Department of History, Xavier University of Louisiana
Cosmos, Kinship and Communitas: Black Pentecostalism(s) in America and the Reworlding of the Black Religious Landscape
Eric Lewis Williams, Iowa State University
Biblical Curses and the Atlantic African Diaspora
Gnimbin A. Ouattara, Brenau University
Preparing a People: The Church and the Making of a New African Diaspora in Middle Tennessee
Adebayo Oyebade, Tennessee State University
The Slavery of African Descents and Christianization of Yorubaland, Southwestern Nigeria in the 19th Century
Rotimi Williams Omotoye, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Synergy of Religion and Traditional Culture on Job Performance of Africans in Diaspora
Cecilia Nwogu, Rivers State College of Arts and Science, Nigeria
Frank Onyema Amugo, Rivers State College of Arts and Science, Nigeria
Religion, Traditional Culture and Creolization in the African Diaspora: The Case of the Banyangs and Ejagams in Southwest Cameroon
Agbor Tabot, Government Technical High School Buea, Cameroon
E4: Globalization and Diasporic Communities, GAR 2.112
Chair: Chair: Martin S. Shanguhyia, Syracuse University
The Influence of Globalization and Politic on Nigerian Arabic Poetry
Lateef Onireti Ibraheem, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Aliyu Muhammad Jamiu, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Nigeria
Mainstreaming Black European Experience in the Global Black Diaspora Studies: Issues, Themes and Prospects
Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, Jr., Benue State University
Reading Mid-Twentieth Century Haitian Travel Advertisements
Kimberly J. Banks, Queensborough Community College
Red, Black and Greener: Pauulu Kamarakafego, Global Black Power and Environmental Justice
Quito Swan, Howard University
Effect of Globalisation and Cultural Diversity on Trado-Medical Practices
Roheemat Olabimpe Adeyemi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Crossing Boundaries and the Creation of African Consciousness: The Continental Influence of James Aggrey
Ethan R. Sanders, University of Cambridge
E5: Movement and Space in Africa and the African Diaspora, GAR 2.128
Chair: Olivier Tchouaffe, Southwestern University
Global Places, Local Spaces: The Contemporary Afropolitan Experience
Tamerra Griffin, New York University
Diasporic Space in the Comoro Islands and in Zanzibar
Iain Walker, University of Oxford
The Multiple Migrant Experiences and the Search for a Place in the Metropolitan Cities in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah
Inkidzayi Manase, University of Venda, South Africa
African Americans in Mexico: International Propaganda, Migration, and the Resistance Against U.S. Racial Hegemony
Alfredo Aguilar, The University of Texas-Pan American
'Are you an American or an African?': 19th Century African American Migration through the Diasporic Analytic Lens
Lawrence Aje, University of Montpellier, France
The Search for ‘Greener Pastures’ Abroad: Reviewing Modern Migration of Nigerians to the United States of America
Joseph O. Akinbi, Adeyemi College of Education
Lunch Reception for Registered Participants
12:15-2:00 PM
Garrison Hall
Panel Session F: 2:00-3:30 PM
F1: Francophone African Identities in Motion (Panel presentations inFrench), GAR 0.120
Chair: Benjamin Brower, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin
The Expulsés and the Malian Crisis/Migrations de retour et crise malienne
Daouda Gary-Tounkara, CNRS, LAM/Sciences Po Bordeaux
“African Diaspora” in the French Historiography: National Boundaries to a Global Concept
Louise Barre, Columbia University, London School of Economics
Rewind and Reframe: Thoughts on Children and Contemporary Issues of Race
Olivier Tchouaffe, Southwestern University
Social Unrest and the African Diaspora in the French Banlieues
Hervé Tchumkam, Southern Methodist University
The Identity of the Immigrant in a Postcolonial Francophone World: Léonora Miano’s Ces Ames Chagrines and Habiter la Frontière
Josiane Banini, West Virginia University
The Ethics of Transnationalism in the French Caribbean Thought
Ramon A. Founkoué, Michigan Technological University
F2: Race and Racism, GAR 0.128
Chair: Khushbu Patel, St. Mary’s University
Premature Abolition, Ethnocentrism, and Bold Blackness: Race Relations in the Cayman Islands, 1834-1840
Christopher Williams, The University College of the Cayman Islands
New African Diasporas and the Development of Black Solidarity in Belgium
Nicole Grégoire, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Yearning for Whiteness: Racial Identification Among the Coloureds of Antigua, 1660s – 1860s
Nsaka Sesepkekiu, Independent Scholar
African Diaspora: Unending Encounters with the Subtlety and Blatancy of Racism
Kunirum Osia, Coppin State University
Tracing the Gaze: The Origination and Perpetuation of the “Single-Story” of Africa
Mandy D. Jolly, Lenoir-Rhyne University
“In this Matter of Dignity”: Black Unionism, Racial Order, and the Struggle for Citizenship in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1899-1907
Bonnie Lucero, The University of Texas-Pan American
F3: Language and Speech in the African Diaspora, GAR 0.132
Chair: Bessie House-Soremekun, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Indigenous Languages as Tools for Development in Ghana
Agyapong Wireko, University of Ghana
Yoruba Speakers in the West African Francophone Diaspora
A. Sanni-Suleiman, University of Ilorin
Language, Militancy, Terrorism and the African Diaspora: Promoting or Resisting Change and Development of Africa?
Terseer Jija, Benue State University
Diasporic Dialects: Garifuna
Brittmy Martinez, University of Baltimore
Re-defining Language and Identity: A Study of Migrants in Chimamanda Adiche's American
Juliet Nkrane Ekpang, University of Calabar, Nigeria
“Whatsupotch:” the Social Remittances of the Ethiopian Diaspora and Return Migrants
Hewan Girma, Hofstra University and State University of New York at Stony Brook
F4: Pan-Africanisms and Transnational Identities, GAR 2.112
Chair: Adebayo Oyebade, Tennessee State University
Pan-Africanisms as Bulwark for Unifying Continental and Diaspora Africans: A Critical Evaluation
Victor Iyanya, Benue State University, Nigeria
Borrowing the Philosophy of Pan-Africanism from the Diaspora: Challenges of African Unity, Democracy and Development in the 21st Century
Alexius Amtaika, University of the Free State, South Africa
Jomo Kenyatta and the Puzzle of Pan-Africanism, Nationalism, and Ethnic Nationalism, 1926-1963
Michael Mwenda Kithinji, University of Central Arkansas
The African Diaspora as a Catalyst for African Freedom: Pan-Africanism and Africa’s Decolonization
Wanjala S. Nasong’o, Rhodes College
Malcolm X Transnationalism and Legacies in Kenya
Mickie Mwanzia Koster, The University of Texas at Tyler
Re-Engineering the Pan-Africanist Vision in the Black Atlantic
David Imbua, University of Calabar, Nigeria
Stella-Effah Attoe, University of Calabar, Nigeria
F5: Conceptualizing the African Diaspora, GAR 2.128
Chair: Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, Jr, Benue State University
Writing African Students into the Modern African Diaspora
Olanipekun Oladotun Laosebikan, Chicago State University
Mapping the African Diaspora
Edward A. Alpers, University of California, Los Angeles
Thugs and Welfare Queens: Self Authorship and Identity for African Diasporas
Leamon Bazil, Saint Louis University
Diasporas Collide: Identity at the “Fault Lines”
Daniel C. Castilow II, Tulane University
Slavery and the African Diaspora: A Discourse on the Dislocation and Mutation of the African
Alaneme Justina Chika, Imo State Polytechnic, Nigeria
Religion, Traditional Culture and Creolization in the African Diaspora: The Case of the Banyangs and Ejagams in Southwest Cameroon
Richard Agbor A. Enoh, University of Buea, Cameroon
Panel Session G: 3:45-5:15 PM
G1: Consciousness, Expression, and the Creation of African and Diasporic Identities, GAR 0.120
Chair: Moyo Okediji, Art and Art History Department, The University of Texas at Austin
Styles and Themes: The Case of Visual Artists in Diaspora
Bojor Enamhe, Cross River University of Technology
Beyond “Good” and “Bad” Hair: African American Hair, Self-Esteem, and Ethnic Identity
Denika Y. Douglas, Texas Southern University
Cultural Expressions in the Christian Yoruba Native Airs of Gilbert Popoola Dopemu
Tolulope Olusola Owoaje, University of Ibadan
Analysis of Bob Marley’s Redemption song: An Allegory of Mental Slavery in Nigeria
Olufunmilola Oladipo, Adeyemi College of Education
Akwanshi: Historicizing and Immortalizing Kinship Ties Through Art Forms
Umana Ginigeme Nnochiri, Cross River State University of Technology, Nigeria
The Convergence of Old and New Diasporas: Dilemmas and Visions of an Emerging Generation
Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, Ithaca College
Candace King, Ithaca College
G2: Education and Youths in Africa and the African Diaspora, GAR 0.128
Chair: Alexius Amtaika, University of the Free State, South Africa
Youth and Irregular Migration in Nigeria: Causes, Consequences and Policy Challenges
Ukertor Gabriel Moti, University of Abuja
Strategies for Enhancing Local Food Consumption Among Adolescents In Ondo West Local Government, Ondo State, Nigeria.
Morounkeji Folarinle Fasakin, Adeyemi College of Education, Nigeria
Bridget Adeyanju, Adeyemi College of Education, Nigeria
Modernizing the Minds: The Introduction and Impact of Western Education on the Nomadic Fulani of Southern Cameroons
Emmanuel Mbah, City University of New York, College of Staten Island
Education and Mobilization: Primary School Designs for Rural Africa
Michael Garrison, The University of Texas
Perspectives on Recruitment and Retention of African American Students in Higher Education
Queen Ogbomo, Tennessee Technological University
Challenges of Adopting ICT in African Primary Schools: Case Study of Rwanda
Bitutu Nyambane, Mount Kenya University
G3: Politics and Governance in Africa and the African Diaspora, GAR 0.132
Chair: Usen Smith, Federal University, Nigeria
Gift Giving as Modern Manifestation of Corruption among African Leaders in Diaspora in Contemporary African Societies
Wisdom Okwuoma Otaluka, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
The State and Political Corruption in Nigeria: an Anatomy of a Perverse Pathology
Hauwau Evelyn Yusuf, Kaduna State University, Kaduna Nigeria
Ibrahim Kawuley Mikail, Federal College of Education, Nigeria
The Politics of Living Abroad: Exploring the Impact of International Migration on Ethnic Identification
Karen Okhoya, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The Diaspora and the Leadership Challenge in Nigeria
Silk Ugwu Ogbu, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria
Re-Thinking Evidential Requirements in Prosecution of Embezzlers of Public Fund: The Olabode George and John Yakubu Sagas
Olubukola Olugasa, Babcock University, Nigeria
G4: Continuity and Change in Practices and Identities, GAR 2.112
Chair: Gloria Emeagwali, Department of History, Central Connecticut State University
Improving Traditional Technology Transfer for ‘Aso Ofi’ (Indigenous Yoruba Textile) Through ICT.
Kidelmo O. Adubi, Federal University of Agriculture, Nigeria
Bridget Itunu Awosika, Adeyemi College of Education, Nigeria
Emergence of African Independent Churches in Nigeria and Its Impact on African Diaspora: Christ Apostolic Church in Focus
Lydia Bosede Akande, Kwara State University
Africa’s Ethno-Xenophobia: Cross-Cultural Conversations with Politics of Identity
Gbenga Dasylva, University of Ibadan
Cosmopolitan Dilemma: Diaspora and Postcolonial Liminality
Delphine Fongang, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Betwixt and Between: Creating, Negotiating, and Contesting Diaspora Identities
Genet Lakew, New York University
Black Leadership in the United States of America and Jamaica: The Political and Cultural Expressions of the Black Predicament in the Activities of Malcolm X and Peter Tosh, 1952-1987
B. Steiner Ifekwe, University of Uyo, Nigeria
Knowledge of Value as Imperative to Yoruba Cultural Preservation and Propagation
O.O. Shada, Federal College of Education (Special), Nigeria
G5: Politics and Diplomacy, GAR 2.128
Chair: Charles Thomas, United States Military Academy at West Point
The Role of Diaspora in Strengthening Democratic Governance in Africa
Kenneth Nweke, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Nigeria
Vincent Nyewusira, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Nigeria
South Africa’s Bantu World, Race, and the United States, 1949-1957
Derek Charles Catsam, The University of Texas-Permian Basin
Transnational Network and Nigerian Security: Challenges of Cattle Herders and Farmers’ Conflicts
Bolaji Omitola, Osun State University, Nigeria
The Role of Africa Diaspora in the Modern Politics of Nigeria
Boniface Opara, Institute of Direct Marketing of Nigeria
People’s Diplomacy: Transatlantic Organizing during Portuguese African Decolonization
R. Joseph Parrott, Yale University Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin
Done Waiting: When African States Fail to Deliver, Afropolitans are Stepping In
Joyce V. Millen, Willamette University, Salem
Amadou Fofana, Willamette University, Salem
G6: Challenges in Motion, GAR 3.116
Chair: Aori Nyambati, University College London
The African Diasporas and the Challenges of Contemporary Regional Integration in Africa
Felix Chinwe Asogwa, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria
The Role of the Diaspora in Strengthening Nigeria’s Electoral System
Philip Sunday Bagu, Benue State University
Perspectives on Economic Decline, Poverty, and Transmigration in Nigeria
Omeiza Olumuyiwa Balogun, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria
Politics and Conflict: The Making of Liberian Diasporas and the Challenges of Post-War Reconstruction
Chris Agoha, United Nations Missions in Liberia
African Spirituality: A Dialogue with Eastern Spiritual Traditions
Assumpta A. Oturu, KPFK 90.7 FM, Los Angeles, (Pacifica Radio)
Homeland and Question in Africa: a Reflection on Onwueme’s Legacy and Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
Vincent Adesina Ayodele, Lagos State University
Experiences, Challenges and the Way Forward for Student Breadwinners: A Critical Appraisal of Push-Factor Immigrant Scholars
Consoler Teboh, St. Cloud State University
Reception
Holiday Inn at Town Lake
Cocktails at 6:30 PM, Conference Banquet and Dance, 7:00 PM
Registered participants and invited guests only.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Panel Session H: 9:00-10:30 AM
H1: From Crafts to Computers: Technology, Skills And Education, GAR 0.120
Chair: Gloria Emeagwali, Department of History, Central Connecticut State University
The Development Implications of Mobile Banking in Africa: A Kenyan Case Study
Tara Mock, Michigan State University
The Lack of Political Identity of the African Diaspora on Facebook.
Louis-Marie Kakdeu, Centre de Recherche et d’Action pour la Paix (CERAP), Côte d’Ivoire
Unifying Yoruba Culture and Tradition with Modernity Through Science and Technology
Bridget Itunu Awosika, Adeyemi College of Education, Nigeria
African Diaspora and the Challenges of Globalised Education in a Virtual World
Elizabeth Tolulope Adenekan, Lead City University, Nigeria
A. Oyesoji Aremu, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
‘They Are Putting Us On Our Toes’: Diasporic Alternative Media and Emerging Newsroom Practices in Nigeria
Motilola Olufenwa Akinfemisoye, University of Central Lancashire
Transfer of Skill and Technology through Diasporas to Revolutionise the Pharmaceutical Practice in Nigeria
O. Augustus, Oyo State Hospitals Management Board, Nigeria
Social Media, the New Revolutionary Tool of African Diasporas
Akua Anyei Obeng, Texas A&M International University
H2: Exiles, Rebels, and Revolutionaries: Armed Groups in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, GAR 0.128
Chair: Celine Jacquemin, St. Mary’s University, Department of Political Science, St. Mary’s University
Museveni, Okello, and Obote: The Ugandan Exile Movement and the Kagera War
Charles Thomas, United States Military Academy at West Point
The Tutsi Diaspora in Uganda and the National Resistance Army
Emma Dugas, United States Military Academy at West Point
Tutsi Diaspora, Tutsi Nationalism: Rwanda and Politicized Identities in the Great Lakes
T.S. Allen, United States Military Academy at West Point
H3: Hopes and Impediments: Diaspora and Development, GAR 0.132
Chair: Segun Ogungbemi, Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria
Africans in Diaspora and Socio-Economic Development in Africa: An Appraisal of the Contributions of Africans in the Netherlands
Ntim Gyakari Ese, Kaduna State University, Nigeria
Otegwu Isaac Odu, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
African Diaspora and the Question of Development in Africa: Lessons from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
M. O. Aderibigbe, Federal University of Technology, Nigeria
The More They Leave, The More We Die: An Ethical Investigation into the Politics Behind Africans in Diaspora to Development Focusing on Nigerian Experts Abroad
Okafor Nneka Ifeoma, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Exploring the Untapped Potential of the African Diaspora for Development
Wayem William Kwame, University of Ghana, Legon
Harnessing Diaspora Remittances for Africa's Economic Development
Aori Nyambati, University College London
Rethinking African Spirit of Collectivism as a Tool for African Empowerment
Sunday Oladipupo, Adekunle Ajasin University
H4: Challenges and Survival: The Trope Of Development, GAR 2.112
Chair: Bessie House-Soremekun, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
The Economics and Constraints of Contemporary Nigerian Diaspora Communities in National Development Since the 1990s
M.O. Odey, Benue State University, Nigeria
Migration, Diaspora and Tourism Development in Nigeria: Experiences from Annual Holy Ghost Congress of the RCCG
Adetola Omitola, Redeemer’s University
Nigerian Diaspora and National Development Strategies: Reflections from Nido-UAE
Opeyemi Aisha Oni, University of Wollongong in Dubai
The Future of Terrorism: Regional Trends, New Development, Likely Scenarios and Worst Cases in Diaspora
Ehiyamen Mediayanose Osezua, Osun State University, Nigeria
Contemporary Challenges in Nigeria’s National Development
Hauwau Evelyn Yusuf, Kaduna State University, Nigeria
Ibrahim Kawuley Mikail, Federal College of Education, Nigeria
H5: Interrogating Africanity, GAR 2.128
Chair: Sati Fwathshak, University of Jos, Nigeria
Narratives of Kinship and Enemification in Offa-Erinle Crises of Kwara State, Nigeria
Yinka Ahmed Aluko, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Gbemisola A. Animasawun, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Beyond Redemption? An Historical/Cultural Interrogation of Nigeria’s Political Landscape
Omeiza Olumuyiwa Balogun, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria
Taofiq Olaide Nasir, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Revisiting Reverse Migrations between Ghana and Nigeria
Ntim Gyakari Esew, Kaduna State University, Nigeria
The Problems of Identity and Africans in the Diaspora
Juliet Adaku Egesi, Owerri Archdiocesan Catholic Education Commission, Nigeria
The Concept of “The Middle Passage” in West Indian Scholarship: A Study of the Works of Edward Brathwaite and Derek Walcott
Usen Smith, Federal University, Nigeria
Kinship and Social in Africa: Studies of the Kinship System of the Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria
Rev. Canon Jonathan Chidomerem Egesi, Owerri Archdiocesan Catholic Education Commission, Nigeria
Panel Session I: 10:45-12:15PM
I1: Humanity and Bodies, GAR 0.120
Chair: Onaiwu Ogbomo, Western Michigan University
Tracing the History of Slave Trade through Sculpture: A Case Study of the Calabar Slave History Museum
Emekpe Okokon Omon, Cross River State University of Technology, Nigeria
Enslaved Africans and Their Involvement in Crime in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire
Solmaz Celik, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Emirate Slave Raiding in the Nigerian Middle-Belt: Revisiting the Depopulation Debate and the Enslavement Purpose
Sati Fwatshak, University of Jos
The Trans-Saharan Trade and African in Diaspora: A Discourse on the Status of Slaves Taken Across the Sahara to the Middle East
Hauwau Evelyn Yusuf, Kaduna State University, Nigeria
Adeforakan Adedayo Yusufu, Kaduna State University, Nigeria
Rethreading the Broken Cords in Great Campos: Cultural Renaissance of 19th Century Lagos
Moses Adedotun Atilade, University of Ibadan,Nigeria
Ayi Kwei Armah’s Poetics of Desire
Fouad Mami, University of Adrar, Algeria
I2: Africa and Africans in the Caribbean and the Americas, GAR 0.128
Chair: Charles Thomas, United States Military Academy at West Point
Afro-Caribbean Pedagogies: Can We Engage African Diaspora Paradigms Without Addressing Africa?
Lidia Marte, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Campus
Systems of Violence: Inequalities and Diasporic Identities in the North of Ecuador
Melana Roberts, York University
Integrating African-Inspired Religious Practice in Eastern Cuba: Reynerio Perez and Vicente Portuondo Martin
Shanti Zaid, Michigan State University
Black King, Indian Country: Bolivia’s Rey Negro as Tradition, Symbol, and Strategy
Sara Busdiecker, Spelman College
The African American Civil Rights Movement: Reminisces and Lessons
Danazumi Sharwa Bukar, Plateau State University, Nigeria
Revolution at the Crossroads: Re-framing the Haitian Revolution from the Heights of Platons
Michael Becker, Duke University
I3: African Diasporas: Case Studies of Flux, GAR 0.132
Chair: Tyler Fleming, University of Louisville
Transnational Migration and Ecological and Economic Transformation in Eastern Africa: The Case of the Maragoli Diaspora in Kigumba Settlement Scheme, Uganda
Martin S. Shanguhyia, Syracuse University
The Kongo Empire: Membership, Metal, and Trans-Atlantic Identities
Blair Rose Zaid, Michigan State University
Okon Edet Uya: Pioneer African Diaspora Scholar, 1969-2012
Udida A. Undiyaundeye, University of Uyo, Nigeria
(Re)examining Traditional Drum Surrogacy: dundun as a Conduit of Socio-Cultural Cohesion in hte African Diaspora
Adeolu O. Ogunsanya, University of Ibadan
Diaspora, Dispossession, and New Collectivities in Texas’ Freedom Colonies
Andrea Roberts, The University of Texas at Austin
Deskilling, Resilience and International Migration among Nigerians in US Cities
Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi, Missouri State University
No Longer “America’s” Pastime: A Look at the New Ethnic Make-Up of Baseball
Lauren Bednarski, The University of Texas at Austin
I4: Thinking Through Diaspora, GAR 2.112
Chair: Segun Ogungbemi, Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria
African Diaspora In Old And New Worlds: A History Through Culture, Religion, and Politics
Eric Tuffour, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
The Curve on the African Concept of Diaspora and the Real Life Situation
Ernest Muchu Toh, University of Western Cape, South Africa
Counting the Cost of Culture of Neglect in the African Diaspora
Tabiri Sylvester, University for Development Studies, Ghana
Redefining the African Diaspora to Include the Old: Its Effects and Implications
Mustapha Sadiq, Garden City University, Ghana
The Extended Family and African Diaspora: The Need for Social Harmony and Communalism A Case of Olugbon Family, Agosasa Ogun State, Nigeria
Wale Olatunji, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Nigeria
Communication and Transculturation: Case of Senior Citizens’ Welfarism in South Western Nigeria
E. Oluwakemi Augustus, Federal College of Agriculture, Nigeria
I5: Identities in Motion, GAR 2.128
Chair: Okpeh O. Okpeh, Benue State University, Nigeria
Zimbabwean Transnational Migration and Diasporic Identities in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North (2009) and Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly (2009)
Terrence Musanga, University of Venda, South Africa
Reverse Migration of Africans in the Diaspora: A Woman’s Quest for her Roots in Tess Onwueme’s Legacies
Jeremiah Methuselah, Kaduna State University
Relevance of Parental Cultural and Socio Economic Background in Nutritional Status of Pre-schoolers
Morounkeji Folarinle Fasakin, Adeyemi College of Education, Nigeria
Adeyanju Bridget Ebunoluwa
African Diaspora and the Decolonization of Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Ntim Gyakari Esew, Kaduna State University, Nigeria
Pragmatic Analysis of Former Nigerian President Obasanjo’s Political Rhetoric on African Empowerment
Ngozi U. Emeka-Nwobia, Ebonyi State University, Nigeria
Blueprint for Africa’s Political and Economic Transformation and the Role of the Diasporas: Moving Beyond Talkshops
Noah Yusuf, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
I6: Roundtable: Disparate Diasporas: The Austin School’s Vision for Black Studies, GAR 4.100
Chair: Professor Joao Costa-Vargas, The University of Texas at Austin
Jafari Allen, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Kia Lilly Caldwell, Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Courtney Morris, Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Rice University
Keisha Khan Perry, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University
Jaime Amparo Alves, DSD/SSRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Sunday Dinner for Registered Conference Participants
St. Edward’s University
Main Building
7:00 PM