Schedule at a Glance
Thursday, Nov. 7
Check-In and Registration: 1 p.m.–2:30 p.m., Great Hall Lower Lobby
Opening Plenary
Craig Steven Wilder, Ph.D.
2:45 p.m.–4:15 p.m., Great Hall Auditorium
Panel
Popular Education and Decolonial Praxis
4:30 p.m.–5:50 p.m., Julian Abele Room (Great Hall, 104)
Friday, Nov. 8
Continental Breakfast: 8 a.m., Great Hall First Floor
8:30 a.m.–9:50 a.m.
Julian Abele Room (Great Hall 104)
- “I suggest you leave the South:” Marcus Christian and the making of Louisiana History
- How Useful is “Race-Data” as a Shorthand for the Complexity of Understanding Populations in Health Research?
- Pilgrimage on the Mississippi Blues Trail: A Journey of Catharsis and Awakening
Intercultural Center Lounge
- “Oh, the places you’re allowed to learn!” Exploring the Impact of Anti-DEI and Anti-LGBTQIA+ Legislation on Libraries
- Banned Books
- Examining an ongoing Transformation of American Higher Education
10:05 a.m.–11:25 a.m.
Julian Abele Room (Great Hall 104)
- Panel: Book Bans and the Impact on School Students’ Literacy
Intercultural Center Lounge
- Pedagogy as a Site of Struggle
- The Right to Know & Be Known: Participatory Action Research (PAR) as a Praxis of Resistance
- Reading for Racial Justice: Reflections on a Professional Development Workshop Program
11:40 a.m.–1 p.m.
Julian Abele Room (Great Hall 104)
- Jollof to Jambalaya: Rice Wars in the African Diaspora
- Police Media as Racial Pedagogy
- A Discussion of the Movie “Kids” (1995)
Intercultural Center Lounge
- Ruby Bridges: A Little Girl That Overcame Racism to Learn
- “They sent us up here by ourselves”: The Afterlives of Brown as Colonial and Neocolonial Projects in Public Education
- Unended Educational Segregation in the Rust Belt: Arthur v. Nyquist (1976) in Buffalo
2:50 p.m.–4:10 p.m.
Julian Abele Room (Great Hall 104)
- The Educational Aims and Geographic Imagination of the Black Panther’s Radical Health Activism
- Dignified Partnership in Black and White: A Critical Analysis on the Clash Between Black Feminist Thought and White
- Saviorism Hidden in Plain Sight: Black Innovator Trading Card Fostering Black Joy in STEM
Intercultural Center Lounge
- “How We Steal Away: Fugitive Pedagogy and Black Women Intellectuals”
- Stylish Resistance: Black Women’s Sartorial Expression in the Black Power Movement
- Engaging with bell hooks: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Education
6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.—Plenary Address
Crystal Sanders, Ph.D., in Great Hall Auditorium
7:30 p.m.–9 p.m.—Evening Performance by the Students of Blue Hawk Records
Saturday, Nov. 9
Continental Breakfast: 9:30 a.m., Great Hall First Floor
10:05 a.m.–11:25 a.m.
Julian Abele Room (Great Hall 104)
- Panel: The LGBTQ Community and the Freedom to Learn
Intercultural Center Lounge
- I’ve Always felt free, Regardless of Where I Was” Black Women Students in Science and Medicine at Columbia University in the New Negro Era
- Black Studies Versus the Study of Blacks: Reexamining the Role of Dr. Nathan Hare and the Legacy of Black Liberatory Education
- Original Instructions: Indigenist Political Thought
11:40 a.m.–1 p.m.
Julian Abele Room (Great Hall 104)
- Larhs of Love
- Teaching, Learning, and Education Policy in Communist Romania During the Rule of Ceausescu
- Nationalism and Racial Identity in the feature section: A look at Pre-1950’s History Comics
Intercultural Center Lounge
- Workshop: LGBTQIA+ Representation