2023 African Studies Assocation Teachers' Workshop: Education for Justice: Amplifying Voices When Voices are Silenced

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

How have African American activism and African anti-imperial movements been inter-connected across time? What global histories are you silencing when you silence African American history? This workshop invites all teachers to consider a new lens to amplify silenced histories.

Register here: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvce2trTIoHtysUc1Kshxrnx8FXQ...

Speakers include:
Porf. Molefi Keteis Professor in the Department of Africology at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the President of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa. Asante is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Black Studies and was the first director of UCLA’s Center for Afro-American Studies.

Mora McLean is president emerita of the nonprofit Africa-America Institute (AAI) and the organization’s historian. Her ongoing research as a doctoral candidate in American Studies at George Washington University aims to recover AAI’s founding history in the mid-twentieth century—a period when pan-Africanist conceptions of progress for Africa and its worldwide diaspora competed with liberal cold warrior aspirations for African “development” in the self-image of the United States.

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey (Nii Laryea Osabu I, Atrékor Wé Oblahii kè Oblayéé Mantsè) is William Dawson Chair, Assistant Professor, and specialist in post-Reconstruction U.S. and African Diaspora history at McGill University. He is the author of Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America (UNC Press). Dr. Adjetey is the back-to-back recipient of McGill's two teaching commendations: 2023 Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and 2022 H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Robert Edgar is Emeritus Professor of African Studies at Howard University and Senior Fellow in the Department of History at Stellenbosch University. He has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, the National University of Lesotho, University of Cape Town and University of Western Cape. He specializes in the history of modern religious and political movements in southern Africa.