Akbar Keshodkar, Moravian College 11:00 – 12:30 Anticipatory Africa: Reflections on Temporality, Teaching and Research in an Panelists: Dr.. Khanjan Mehta, Lehigh University “Frugal
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AFRICA IS THE FUTURE
10:00 – 10:45 Registration (UBC Room, HUB Student Union)
Breakfast (Air Products Room, HUB Student Union)
10:45 – 11:00 Welcome Remarks (UBC Room, HUB Student Union)
Dr Cynthia Kosso, Provost, Moravian College
Dr Akbar Keshodkar, Moravian College
11:00 – 12:30 Anticipatory Africa: Reflections on Temporality, Teaching and Research in an
Panelists: Dr Khanjan Mehta, Lehigh University
“Frugal Innovation and Sustainable Development”
Dr William Bissell, Lafayette College (Panel Moderator)
Dr Wendy Wilson Fall, Lafayette College
“Finding the Future: Youth and Performing the Transnational”
Dr Akbar Keshodkar, Moravian College
“Revival of the Indian Ocean Nexus: A New Era of South-South Mobility”
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch (Marketplace, HUB Student Union)
Buffet lunch; Regional African cuisine will be on offering at the Sustainable Table
(Registered participants are requested to pick up the lunch coupon at the time of registration)
1:30 – 3:00 African Lives in the 21 st Century (UBC Room, HUB Student Union)
Moderator: Dr Susan Kart, Lehigh University
Panelists: Michelle Blazewicz, Muhlenberg College
“Changing Marriage Practices in Senegal Examined Through the Works of Senegalese Women Writers”
Megan Ross, Muhlenberg College
“Revolutions in Movement: How Senegalese Women Redefine
"Negritude" through Dance”
Madeleine Weko, Muhlenberg College
“Négritude and Polygamy: Navigating Marriage in Postcolonial Senegal” Freddy Coleman, Lehigh University
“A Digitizing Africa - The Rapid Tech Development of African Industry”
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break (Refreshments in Air Products Room, HUB Student Union)
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3:30 – 4:30 Keynote Address (UBC Room, HUB Student Union)
Dr Siba N Grovogui, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
“African Discourses on Citizenship: Observations on Modern Imaginaries
of Belonging and Public Life”
4:30 – 5:30 Africa is the Future: Emerging Discourses, Roundtable Discussion
(UBC Room, HUB Student Union) Panelists: Dr Kwame Essien, Lehigh University (Moderator)
Dr Rex Ahene, Lafayette College
Dr Susan Kart, Lehigh University
Dr James Peterson, Lehigh University
5:30 – 5:40 Closing Remarks (UBC Room, HUB Student Union)
Dr Bruce Whitehouse, Lehigh University
5:40 – 7:30 Conference Reception (Pavilion, HUB Student Union)
Live African music provided by LV Benga Africa