DAY TWO

Distinguished Address: Noliwe Rooks

Session 3: PanAfricanism in this Moment of the 21st Century

• Noble Maseru - Facilitator

• Amzat Boukari-Yabara 

• Horace Campbell 

• Maurice Carney  

• Zophia Edwards  

• Jarrod Grant 

• Inemesit Richardson 

• Adrianne White or Adrienne Cabouet?

Session 4: The Caribbean and the Politics of Sovereignty Today 

• Moderator: Tony Bogues 

• David Abdulah 

• Brian Meeks

• Vikram Tamboli

• Maziki Thame

11:45am

Doors Open

12:00 – 12:15pm

Occasion & Greetings

12:15 – 2:15pm

PANEL 1 | Liberation: Memory as Resistance

This session explores memory as resistance, and how individual and collective memory is created, preserved, shared, and activated through journalism, publishing, oral history, film, the arts, museum preservation, digitization, and archiving to sustain and advance struggles for liberation.

2:15 – 4:00pm

Lunch Break (Lunch on your own)

In-person participants at Brown University are welcome to view the Port Cities Exhibit during the break.

In-person participants at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library will view the film Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know.

4:00 – 5:15pm

PANEL 2 | After Man, Toward the Human: Grounding with

People(s)-Centered Human Rights

The panel examines human rights as forged through popular struggle rather than granted by state or empire. Drawing on People(s)-Centered Human Rights and the works and activism of Walter Rodney and Sylvia Wynter, it situates rights-making in mass participation and self-determination, and links it to present-day movements for justice and liberation.

5:15 – 5:30pm

Break

5:30 – 6:45pm

KEYNOTE ADDRESS | Dr. Bayinnah Bello

6:45 – 7:00pm

Closing Remarks

DAY TWO | Friday, April 10 

8:45am

Doors Open

9:00 – 9:10am

Welcome

9:10 – 10:05am

DISTINGUISHED ADDRESS | Dr. Noliwe Rooks

10:05am –10:15am

Break

10:15am –12:15pm

PANEL 3 | PanAfricanism in this Moment of the 21st Century

This panel explores revolutionary movements and the role of the masses in dismantling colonial and neo-colonial systems. It examines strategies of transformation across Africa and the Diaspora, drawing on case studies from the Sahel and thought leadership from the Global Pan-African Movement, and addresses the roles of technology, HBCUs, women, health, and economic development in advancing sustainable self-sufficiency.

12:15 – 1:30pm

Lunch Break (Lunch on your own)

1:30 – 2:45pm

PANEL 4 | The Caribbean and the Politics of Sovereignty Today 

Politics in the Caribbean is at a crossroads. The decolonization moments of the 70's and early 80's came to a close with the implosion of the Grenadian Revolution. This period was followed by neoliberalism and a Caribbean in which transformation was not part of the political horizon.  Today it seems that this neoliberal period is passing and being replaced by various forms of authoritarianism. Central to this current period is the political erosion of sovereignty. If  the debt burden/crisis of the 1980s and 90s eroded the space for economic sovereignty, then the current moment is one in which the USA as an imperial power rules through a big power policy of " might is right." In such a context what are the prospects for Caribbean sovereignty and how can this sovereignty be practiced?

2:45 – 3:00pm

Closing Remarks