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Full Conference
2020
Wednesday, March 4th
4:30 PM

Reception

Freewood Farms

Freewood Farms

4:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Thursday, March 5th
9:00 AM

African Diasporic Migrations from Rural to Urban Space: Alice Childress' Reconstruction of Home in Her Plays Gullah and Sea Island Song

Corrie Claiborne, Morehouse College

EHFA 137

9:00 AM - 10:20 AM

9:00 AM

"For We are Making History": John W. Bolts and Archival Memory in South Carolina

Valerie McLaurin, University of Georgia

EHFA 136

9:00 AM - 10:20 AM

9:00 AM

Mobility among South Carolina Coastal Lawmakers during Reconstruction

Alison McLetchie, South Carolina State University

EHFA 136

9:00 AM - 10:20 AM

9:00 AM

"Oonuh Weary Ones Come on Home and Rest"

Dorothy Montgomery

EHFA 137

9:00 AM - 10:20 AM

9:00 AM

Reconstruction in the Gullah/Geechee

Debra D. Coulter, Georgia State University

EHFA 136

9:00 AM - 10:20 AM

9:00 AM

Reflections of a Geechee Woman's Southern Journey

Sandra Allen Lesibu, Independent Scholar

EHFA 137

9:00 AM - 10:20 AM

9:00 AM

The Evolution of Gullah Geechee: From Turner 1949 to the Children who Speak Gullah Geechee

Jessica R. Berry, South Carolina State University

EHFA 136

9:00 AM - 10:20 AM

9:00 AM

Your Voice is My Sound: Audio Recording Technology, Identity and Re-Creating the Gullah/Geechee Diaspora

Anthony Luis Sanchez Cruz, Independent Scholar

EHFA 137

9:00 AM - 10:20 AM

10:30 AM

Documenting African American Heritage

Jannie Harriot, South Carolina African American Heritage Commission
Jeanne Cyriaque
Justin Robinson

Recital Hall

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM

From Africa and France to Haiti and Carolina: The Noisette Family's Journey

F. Eliza Glaze, Coastal Carolina University

Hicks Dining Hall

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

12:30 PM

Gullah Geechee Cultural Conservation Project

Eric Crawford, Coastal Carolina University
Alli Crandell, Coastal Carolina University
Sue Bergeron, Coastal Carolina University
Scott Bacon, Coastal Carolina University

Hicks Dining Hall

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

12:30 PM

Lunch

Hicks Dining Hall

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

1:45 PM

A Form of Skilled Labor: Entrepreneurial Gullah Geechee Women and "Head Carrying"

Alisha M. Cromwell, Coastal Carolina University

EHFA 136

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

1:45 PM

Adinkrahene: Honoring Women's Leadership and Greatness Through Fiber and Textiles

Precious D. Lovell, North Carolina State University

EHFA 136

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

1:45 PM

Deepening the Sierra Leone-Gullah Connection

Darla Domke-Damonte, Coastal Carolina University

EHFA 137

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

1:45 PM

Historical Transformations of Land Tenure: Gender Inequality and the Rural Household Poverty in Tanzania, 1890s-2000s

Jumanne Ngohengo, Muslim University of Morogo, Tanzania

EHFA 136

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

1:45 PM

Transcending Nationalities: Shirley Graham Du Bois and the Making of a New African Personality in Ghana

Emmanuella Amoh, Purdue University

EHFA 136

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

3:20 PM

Conversation with Margaret Washington

Margaret Washington, Cornell University

Johnson Auditorium

3:20 PM - 4:15 PM

4:30 PM

Reading by Colin Grant and Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna
Colin Grant

Johnson Auditorium

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Drawing Circles with Dance

Miya S. Fowler, Moving Spirits, Inc.

Theatre of the Republic

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Friday, March 6th
8:00 AM

Marketing the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor: Is There a Better Way?

EHFA 164

8:00 AM - 8:50 AM

9:00 AM

Beenyahs BEEN Magic: Re-imagining the South Carolina Lowcountry as a Portal for Africana and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

Sara Makeba Daise, Independent

EHFA 137

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

9:00 AM

Clothing as Identity and Resistance: A Case Study of Women's Sunday Dress in Gullah Geechee Communities

Hattie Jordan, Coastal Carolina University

EHFA 136

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

9:00 AM

Erna Brodber's Louisiana: Moving Beyond Borders to Understand Transnational Slavery

Matthew L. Miller, University of South Carolina-Aiken

EHFA 137

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

9:00 AM

Gullah's Trabbels

Khadija Kamara, Independent Scholar

EHFA 137

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

9:00 AM

Resistance to Enslavement in Georgia's Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor: The Case of the Ebo Landing Rebellion in Glynn County and the Boggy Swamp Plantation Rebellion in Camden County

J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College

EHFA 136

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

9:00 AM

Rethinking Globalization: Edouard Glissant's Tout-Monde as a Diasporic Call towards Imaginary Wholelands

Mamadou Moustapha Ly, University of Denver

EHFA 136

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

9:00 AM

The Shadow of the Leopard: Understanding Ekpe/Mgbe and Nsibidi

Kevin J. Hales, University of Missouri

EHFA 137

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

9:00 AM

Tracing Cultures of Resistance to Slavery in the Atlantic Diaspora: Extrapolations from Enslaved Igbo Experience

Nnamdi C. Ajaebili, University of Nigeria

EHFA 136

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:45 AM

Creating Archives without Borders

Chaitra Powell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Steven G. Fullwood, The Nomadic Archivists Project
Miranda Mims, University of Rochester

Edwards Recital Hall

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

12:30 PM

A Community Conversation: Researching Cultural Heritage and Conversation on Cumberland Island, Georgia

Kelly Goldberg, University of South Carolina
Kevin Fogle, University of South Carolina
Heather Hodges, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission
Keilah Spann, National Park Service

Brooks Stadium

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

12:30 PM

Lunch

Brooks Stadium

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

1:45 PM

Back to Africa? Revisiting Historical and Contemporary African Return Movements

Hewan Girma, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

EHFA 137

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

1:45 PM

Developing Online Archives for Interactive Humanities Projects

Betsy Newman, SCETV
Patrick Hayes, Independent

Recital Hall

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

1:45 PM

Expanding the Circle of Culture: An Africana Studies Examination of Haitian and Gullah-Geechee Social Contracts

Samuel T. Livingston, Morehouse College

EHFA 137

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

1:45 PM

Making Invisible Stories Visible: Mitchelville Augmented Reality Tour Project

Chris Maraffi, Florida Atlantic University

Recital Hall

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

1:45 PM

Making Peace with the Stories You Fail to Get

Althea Natalga Sumpter, Independent Scholar

Recital Hall

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

1:45 PM

Promising Freedom at the Edge of an Empire

Grace Turner, University of The Bahamas

EHFA 137

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

1:45 PM

Subversive Cartography of the Lowcountry

Judith L. Strathearn, Metropolitan University of Denver

Recital Hall

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

1:45 PM

Tales of, and Revelations from Material Culture and Vernacular Arts as Tools of Resistance

Anne Bouie, Independent Scholar

EHFA 136

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

3:30 PM

Black Indigeneity: Exploring Ethno-racial Policy for the Garifuna in Honduras

Sheryl Felecia Means, University of New Mexico

EHFA 136

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

3:30 PM

Indigenous Ontologies: Gullah Geechee Autonomy in Livelihoods of Abundance in the Americas

Sharon Fuller, Sonoma State University

EHFA 136

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

3:30 PM

Juba-Sanctuary

Scott Alves Barton, New York University

EHFA 136

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

3:30 PM

Voodoo in the News: New Orleans, 1804-1857

Susan Kwosek, South Carolina State University

EHFA 136

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

5:00 PM

Toten' Brookgreen Plantation Back Home to Africa

Veronica Gerald, Coastal Carolina University
Deon K. Turner

Singleton Ballroom

5:00 PM - 7:15 PM

7:30 PM

Reclaiming the Banjo

Justin Robinson
Jerrone Paxton

Student Union Theatre

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM