Full Conference

O, Freedom Ova Me! Past, Present and Future

Ron Daise, Brookgreen Gardens

Brookgreen Gardens

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Welcome

Page Kiniry, Brookgreen Gardens

Brookgreen Gardens

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Reconstruction 360. Module One: Forty Acres and a Mule

Betsy Newman, South Carolina Educational Television

Coastal Carolina University

8:05 AM - 9:20 AM

The Gullah Digital Archive of St. Helena Island

Peter Rutkoff, Kenyon College

Coastal Carolina University

8:05 AM - 9:20 AM

The Water: Examining the Meanings of Saltwater in the Making of Gullah Pasts, Presents, and Futures

Krystal A. Smalls, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Coastal Carolina University

8:05 AM - 9:20 AM

Wha Dah Putah Say Bout We?: How Digital Media Preserves and Reinvents Gullah-Geechee Culture

Arlecia D. Simmons, Claflin University

Coastal Carolina University

8:05 AM - 9:20 AM

African and Western Aspects of Nicholas Ballanta's Opera Afiwa

Afiwa Joceryl Beckley, Milton Margai College of Education and Technology

Coastal Carolina University

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

An Examination of the Fanti-Spirituals Found in Nicholas Ballanta's Manuscripts

Dyke Kiel, Cottey College

Coastal Carolina University

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

"Gullah is My Ministry": Music and Religion-as-Policy among Gullah Geechees

Douglas Peach, Indiana University-Bloomington

Coastal Carolina University

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Reinventing Erzulie's Past for Literature's Future

Nia Dickens, Richard Hugo House

Coastal Carolina University

11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Stretched and Limited: The Role of Organizational Partnerships on Somali Refugees' Integration Experience

Elizabeth Burdette Roberts, College of Charleston

Coastal Carolina University

11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

We Understand Ayo: Preserving our Past, Shaping our Future

Nadine Marchena Kean, Independent Scholar

Coastal Carolina University

11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Educating Across the Diaspora: The Development and Implementation of a Seminal Advanced Placement Course with African Diaspora Content

Nafees Khan, Clemson University

Coastal Carolina University

1:05 PM - 2:35 PM

Empower Over Power: Students Engagement with Inequality and Social Justice and Perceptions of Their Social Environment

Shani Nakhid-Schuster, Teachers College, Columbia University

Coastal Carolina University

1:05 PM - 2:35 PM

The African Diaspora Globalization Student Exchange (ADCGSE): The Arts as Cross-Culture Interconnection and Social Justice Leadership

Kim N. Archung, Global Student Affairs

Coastal Carolina University

1:05 PM - 2:35 PM

World Drumming Workshop

Roger Johansen, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University

1:05 PM - 2:35 PM

The South Carolina Lowcountry Micro-ethnic Diversity Project

Esohe Irabor, Howard University

Coastal Carolina University

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

Gullah Geechee Documentary Film Festival

Heather Hodges, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission

Coastal Carolina University

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Marrying for Money: How Transnational Family Alliances Contributed to the Proliferation of the "Illicit" Slave Trade in 19th Century Guinea

Kelly Goldberg, University of South Carolina-Columbia

Coastal Carolina University

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Spiritual Spaces Within the Diaspora: Identifying Shrines at Dean Hall Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina

Andrew Agha, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Gullah Voices and The Ties That Bind

Robert W. Stephens, University of Connecticut

Coastal Carolina University

4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

Praying, Singing and Catching Sense: Praise House Traditions in Gullah Geechee Communities

Victoria Smalls, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission

Coastal Carolina University

4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

The Code: Visual Arts As Resistance To Enslavement

Anne Bouie, Art Historian

Coastal Carolina University

4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

The Resurgence of African Printed Textiles and Fashion as an Expression of Resilience and Empowerment in African American Artistry

Alice R. Burmeister, Winthrop University

Coastal Carolina University

4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

When Hip-Hop Meets Ring-Shout

Anwar Uhuru, Harris Stowe State University

Coastal Carolina University

4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

Marlon James's The Book of Night Women: Personal and Political Awakenings of a Slave Woman

Matthew L. Miller, University of South Carolina-Aiken

Coastal Carolina University

8:05 AM - 9:20 AM

Pan-African Feminist Praxis and Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

Layla Brown-Vincent, University of Massachusetts-Boston

Coastal Carolina University

8:05 AM - 9:20 AM

Portrait of the Enslaved African as the Stripped Migrant in Edouard Glissant's Poetics

Mamadou Moustapha Ly, University of Denver

Coastal Carolina University

8:05 AM - 9:20 AM

U.S. Jim Crow Empire: Policing Puerto Rican Citizenship and Women of Color’s Behavior during the Progressive Era

DJ Polite, University of South Carolina-Columbia

Coastal Carolina University

8:05 AM - 9:20 AM

Warrior Women: The Transformative Culture of Cloth in Bahia

Precious D. Lovell, North Carolina State University

Coastal Carolina University

8:05 AM - 9:20 AM

Cross-Influences between African and African American Literatures Africa and her Diaspora: Being, Be-Coming and Be-Longing

Saliou Dione, Cheikh Anta Diop University

Coastal Carolina University

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Negritude: a Networking Re-reading of Diasporic Resistance

Abib Sene, Cheikh Anta Diop University

Coastal Carolina University

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

New African Women’s Voices Talking to/about the Diaspora Echoing Diasporic Backgrounds

Abdou Ngom, Cheikh Anta Diop University

Coastal Carolina University

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Through the Eyes of Gullah: Memory and the Aesthetics of Gullah Culture

Coastal Carolina University

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Catching Sense, Collective Memory, and Black People: Notes on the Terms Geechee and Gullah

J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College

Coastal Carolina University

11:05 AM - 12:20 PM

Contemplations on Dutch Caribbean Consciousness Poetics: An Examination of Oswin "Chin" Behilia’s Lyrical Ideologies and Hemayel Martina’s & Levi Silvanie’s "Ami Ta Kòrsou"

Florencia V. Cornet, University of South Carolina-Columbia

Coastal Carolina University

11:05 AM - 12:20 PM

“Cotch de Laarnin”: An Exploration of Gullah Geechee Folks as Blueprints for Afrofuturist

Sara Makeba Daise, Cultural History Interpreter

Coastal Carolina University

11:05 AM - 12:20 PM

“Curtain[s] of Fog”: Temporal Backscattering and Resistance in Nalo Hopkinson’s Novels

Hannah Hjerpe-Schroeder, Emory University

Coastal Carolina University

11:05 AM - 12:20 PM

Narratives of Expressive and Aesthetic Art and the Development of Civil Society in the Caribbean

Kim Williams-Pulfer, Indiana University

Coastal Carolina University

11:05 AM - 12:20 PM

Racial Identity in the Colonial Classroom

Rhonda Ferreira Habersham, Independent Scholar

Coastal Carolina University

11:05 AM - 12:20 PM

The Essence of Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage: A Steady Force in Coastal South Carolina Pluralism

Emory Campbell, Gullah Heritage Consulting Services

Coastal Carolina University

11:05 AM - 12:20 PM

The Gullah Language in Relation to Its Sisters and Cousins

David Frank, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission

Coastal Carolina University

11:05 AM - 12:20 PM

Repatriation Event

Jorge Arévalo Mateus, Association for Cultural Equity
Anna Wood Lomax, Association for Cultural Equity
Todd Harvey, Library of Congress
Kimberley Bugg, Library of Congress

Coastal Carolina University

1:05 PM - 2:35 PM

Mini Session: "Our Story" Passing Stories from One Generation to the Next, Using the Art of Dollmaking

Zenobia G. Harper, Independent Scholar

Coastal Carolina University

2:40 PM - 3:10 PM

PTSD in Urban Neighborhoods: An Analysis of J. Cole’s KOD album

Bre'Anie Sanders, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Jolanda Kendall, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Coastal Carolina University

2:40 PM - 3:10 PM

Imagining Lizzie: The Storied Land and Table—Rooted in Diaspora Memory and Belonging

Portia Cobb, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Scott Alves Barton, Culinary Historian

Coastal Carolina University

3:20 PM - 4:50 PM

Making Gullah: Reflections on Finding Gullah Folk in the American Imagination

Melissa Cooper, Rutgers University

Coastal Carolina University

3:20 PM - 4:50 PM

More than Conjurers: Placemaking and Rootworking Women

Tamara Butler, Michigan State University

Coastal Carolina University

3:20 PM - 4:50 PM

Comparative Ethnomedicine in the America-Sierra Leone Nexus

Cyrus MacFoy, University of Maryland University College

Coastal Carolina University

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

Re-lmagining Ancient African-Diaspora Folklore for Contemporary Children

Marjuan Canady, Canady Foundation for the Arts

Coastal Carolina University

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

Re-member: The Importance of Ancestral Connections, Resistance, and Divine Destiny to African Peoples

Simeon Daise, Independent Scholar

Coastal Carolina University

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

“Servants Be Obedient to Your Masters”: Slavery, Catechisms, and Christian Religious Instruction in the Antebellum South

Tammy Byron, Dalton State College

Coastal Carolina University

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in History

Anne Bailey, Binghamton University

Coastal Carolina University

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

Language and Identity in Contemporary Creole Contexts: A Comparative Look at Gullah/Geechee and Nigerian Pidgin

Jessica R. Berry, South Carolina State University
Christine I. Ofulue, National Open University of Nigeria
Tracey L. Weldon, University of South Carolina-Columbia

Coastal Carolina University

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Place Based Methodology of Black Rural Healthcare Utilization: A Case Study of the Gullah-Geechee of McIntosh County, Georgia

Roman Johnson, University of Alabama-Birmingham

Coastal Carolina University

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

The Influence of Patois in Trinidad and Tobago: The Case of Paramin

Claudette Sinnette, The University of Trinidad and Tobago

Coastal Carolina University

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

The Poetess of Protest: Exploring the Poetics of Nina Simone's Protest Music

Heather Buffington-Anderson, Claflin University

Coastal Carolina University

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Women, Freedom, and Coherence Among Lowcountry Heirs’ Property Tenure

Robin Throne, Northcentral University

Coastal Carolina University

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Scenes and Stories from the Diaspora; Perspectives from Saint Lucia and South Carolina (A comparative review of lived experiences in the voices of the elders)

Elizabeth Serieux, University of South Carolina-Beaufort
Najmah Thomas, University of South Carolina-Beaufort
Winston Phulgence, University of York

Coastal Carolina University

9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

Schooled by the Elders: Writing of The Ghosts are Dying

Althea Natalga Sumpter, Independent Scholar

Coastal Carolina University

9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

"Dying to Eat"

Track: "Dying to Eat"

Amy Edmunds, Coastal Carolina University
Veronica Gerald, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University

11:10 AM - 12:25 PM

Material Expressions of Independence and Community Among the Geechee of Georgia

Track: Archeology and Tracing the African Diaspora: Current Work in the Lowcountry and Its Implications

Brad Botwick, New South Associates

Coastal Carolina University

11:10 AM - 12:25 PM

What Did They Eat?: Findings and Questions on Pre- and Post-Emancipation Foodways on James Island, South Carolina

Track: Archeology and Tracing the African Diaspora: Current Work in the Lowcountry and Its Implications

Brandy Joy, University of South Carolina-Columbia

Coastal Carolina University

11:10 AM - 12:25 PM

Gullah Seminoles

Joseph Opala, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University

2:20 PM - 3:35 PM

Reconnecting Beyond the Fanfare. Tracing Sierra Leonean and Gullah linkages in the US and the Caribbean

Amadu Massally, Senior Consultant on Diaspora and Governance

Coastal Carolina University

2:20 PM - 3:35 PM