SSAP 2017/2018 MEETING SCHEDULE
September 17th: Open Forum
For our first meeting of the year, Alfred Prettyman will moderate an open discussion on the theme, "Reconciling Race? What Do YOU Propose?" The discussion will primarily concern the content of two recent articles:
Ifekwunigwe, Jayne O., Jennifer K. Wagner, Joon-Ho Yu, Tanya M. Harrell, Michael J. Bamshad, and Charmaine D. Royal. 2017. “A Qualitative Analysis of How Anthropologists Interpret the Race Construct.” American Anthropologist 119 (3): 422–34. doi:10.1111/aman.12890.
Burke, Meghan A. 2017. “Racing Left and Right: Color-Blind Racism’s Dominance across the U.S. Political Spectrum.” The Sociological Quarterly 58 (2): 277–94. doi:10.1080/00380253.2017.1296335.
NB: please come prepared to discuss these texts.
Ifekwunigwe, Jayne O., Jennifer K. Wagner, Joon-Ho Yu, Tanya M. Harrell, Michael J. Bamshad, and Charmaine D. Royal. 2017. “A Qualitative Analysis of How Anthropologists Interpret the Race Construct.” American Anthropologist 119 (3): 422–34. doi:10.1111/aman.12890.
Burke, Meghan A. 2017. “Racing Left and Right: Color-Blind Racism’s Dominance across the U.S. Political Spectrum.” The Sociological Quarterly 58 (2): 277–94. doi:10.1080/00380253.2017.1296335.
NB: please come prepared to discuss these texts.
October 27th & 28th**
Philosophy and Religion Conference in Africana Traditions
"Intersectionality and the Politics of Activism"
Here's the flyer
"Intersectionality and the Politics of Activism"
Here's the flyer
November 19th: Dana Miranda
Miranda is a philosophical doctoral student at the University of Connecticut. His interests include Africana Philosophy, Existential Phenomenology, Philosophy of Psychiatry, and Political Philosophy. He did his undergraduate studies at Bard College, where he wrote a senior thesis entitled, "The Nation-State as Historian:A Philosophical Reading of Monumentalization."
At our November meeting, Miranda presented, "Title: We Gonna Ill: Addressing Depression in the Africana Diaspora." [abstract]
At our November meeting, Miranda presented, "Title: We Gonna Ill: Addressing Depression in the Africana Diaspora." [abstract]
January 21st: Thomas J. Main
Main is a professor of political science at Baruch College. He received a PhD in politics from Princeton University, and an MPA from the Kennedy School at Harvard University. He is the author of Homelessness in New York City: Policymaking from Koch to de Blasio (2016, NYU Press).
At our January meeting, Main presented, "Alt-Right Ideology: Racialism," which is a chapter from his forthcoming book, The Rise of the Alt-Right (Brookings Institution Press).
At our January meeting, Main presented, "Alt-Right Ideology: Racialism," which is a chapter from his forthcoming book, The Rise of the Alt-Right (Brookings Institution Press).
February 18th: Zay Dilette Green
Born and raised in Jamaica, Green is the author of Christianity and Black Oppression: Duppy Know Who Fe Frighten (2012, Kings-SVG Publishers), where she asks, "How is it that blacks have been Christianized for more than four hundred years, and in some cases more than five hundred years, and yet blacks are stereotyped as morally and mentally inferior?"(PBoS, 2012) Green received an M.A. in Psychology from Long Island University, and an M.L.S. from Rutgers University.
At our February meeting, Green presented, "The Story Behind The Philosophy Born of Struggle Conferences: Ideology and the Africana Experience, Chapter One."
At our February meeting, Green presented, "The Story Behind The Philosophy Born of Struggle Conferences: Ideology and the Africana Experience, Chapter One."
March 18th: Keelyn Bradley
Bradley is a PhD candidate in Philosophy, Art and Social Thought at The European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. His areas of interest include Social and Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Africana Philosophy, Onto-epistemology, Ethics, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, and Disability Studies.
At our March meeting, Bradley presented "Beneath The Open Sky—James Baldwin’s Negro and the Other Stranger(s) in the Room: Imagining a Future History of Black Queer Becoming in a Global World"[abstract]
At our March meeting, Bradley presented "Beneath The Open Sky—James Baldwin’s Negro and the Other Stranger(s) in the Room: Imagining a Future History of Black Queer Becoming in a Global World"[abstract]
April 15th: Althea Sully Cole
Althea Sully Cole is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and ethnomusicologist from New York City. Althea received her B.A. in Ethnomusicology at Barnard College in 2012 and an M.A. with Distinction in Music in Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2016. She is currently a dean's fellow/doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University. As a musician, Althea has worked with Billy Harper, Billy Bang, Ras Moshe, Fred Ho,Sahad Sarr, Daara J Family, Faada Freddy, Royal Messenger and father Bill Cole, among others. Althea has studied kora under korists Yacouba Sissoko and Edou Manga, 3 years of which were spent in Dakar, Senegal.
At our April meeting Althea Sully Cole presented, "Kora in New York City: How West African Performers Negotiate and Navigate Racial Frameworks in the U.S."[abstract]
At our April meeting Althea Sully Cole presented, "Kora in New York City: How West African Performers Negotiate and Navigate Racial Frameworks in the U.S."[abstract]
May 20th: John Gavin White
John Gavin White is a performance poet and Research / Teacher's Assistant, under the supervision of Dr. Mark Naison, in the African- American Studies department at Fordham University. With dual degrees in Philosophy & Women and Gender Studies, White has been featured several times on the world famous Apollo amateur night along with having performed or lectured at a number of universities in the U.S. and abroad, ranging from University of Minnesota to Queen University Belfast in Ireland, to the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa.
Last spring, at our March 2017 meeting, White presented, "I, John De Conqueror: Black Male Self-Recovery". For our final meeting of the academic year, he presented, "The Philosophy of Poetic Existence" [abstract].
Last spring, at our March 2017 meeting, White presented, "I, John De Conqueror: Black Male Self-Recovery". For our final meeting of the academic year, he presented, "The Philosophy of Poetic Existence" [abstract].
* tentative date
** NOT the 3rd Sunday
** NOT the 3rd Sunday