Young Professionals’ Panel

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Maureen Ottaro Malomba, James Madison University, USA
Zoom host: AAAD team

Martin Aimbondi, Entrepreneur, Namibia, YALI RLC in South Africa
“An In-depth Exploration of Corruption in Africa”

Tebogo Poo, Southern African Development Community-Ground Water Management Institute, South Africa, YALI RLC in South Africa
“The Urgent Need for Transparency, Accountability, Integrity, Ethics, and Responsibility in Administering Public Resources”

Michelle Njeri Njuguna, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya
“Unraveling the Labyrinth: A Comprehensive Inquiry into Corruption, Public Fund Mismanagement, and Policy Challenges in Kenya”

Pamela Mulemba Mateyo, Ministry of Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development, Zambia, YALI RLC South Africa
“Attitudes, Behaviors, and Norms Connected to the Use of Public Resources in Zambia”

Showcase of Student Research

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Rachel Rhoades, James Madison University, USA
Zoom host: AAAD team

Victoria Harwell, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
“Growing Subversion; Black Queer Kinship, Black Geographies, and Chocolate”

Tyler Jones, James Madison University, USA

India Williams, James Madison University, USA
“The Need for Safe Spaces for Young Black Poets”

Anthony Adkins, James Madison University, USA
“Assimilation Is Annihilation”: An Analysis of Juel Taylor’s They Cloned Tyrone

Accountability in African Public Policy and Administration 

1:00 – 2:30 pm. Registration, African Accountability Exhibition

First Floor, Lobby
Modality: In Person Only

Embassies in Washington DC will exhibit work that their institutions of Accountability do, share opportunities for collaboration and research on accountability, and their tourism.

2:30 – 5:00 pm. Welcoming remarks, Cocktail

Cocktail hour sponsored by the International Journal on Responsiblity

First Floor, Room A
Modality: In Person and Virtual

Kerry F. Crawford
Department Chair, Department of Political Science, James Madison University, USA

Chris Changwe Nshimbi
Director, Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn), University of Pretoria, South Africa

Jiangyuan Zhou
Executive Director, Center for Global Engagement, James Madison University, USA

Jeremy Coats
Lead, Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, Institute of International Education, USA

Besi Muhonja
Associate Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship, James Madison University, USA

International Journal on Responsibility Informational Session

Heather L. Scheuerman, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal on Responsibility

AAAD Conference Opening

First Floor, Room A
Modality: In Person and Virtual
Presiding: Delores B. Phillips, Director, AAAD Center, James Madison University, USA

Heather Coltman, Provost, James Madison University, USA
Traci Zimmerman, Dean, College of Arts and Letters, James Madison University, USA

Panel 1a. Traces and Archives

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: RaShelle R. Peck, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, USA
Zoom Host: Kara M. Kavanagh, James Madison University, USA

Jonathan S. Lower, Ohio University, USA
“Come and Gone: August Wilson, Sheriff Joe Turner, and the Lingering Presence of the Slave Driver”

Sruthi Madhu and Soumya Jose, National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh, India 
“Embodied Vulnerabilities: Occupational Lead Inhalation and Slow Violence in Kia Corthron’s Splash Hatch on the E Going Down”

Emma Gentry, James Madison University, USA
“Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturist Imagination: Posthumanism and Decolonization in Kindred”

Panel 1b. Reckoning Rights

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Maura Hametz, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Host: Modjadji Choshi, James Madison University, USA

Elizabeth Gritter, Indiana University Southeast, USA
“Maxine Smith: A Civil Rights Force to be Reckoned with in Memphis, Tennessee”

Yannick Giovanni Marshall, California Institute of the Arts, USA
“The Runway’s Reckoning: Marronage and the Death of Civil Rights”

Philip Onyekachukwu Egbule, University of Delta, Nigeria
“Rethinking Africa’s Future: A Call to Strengthening Democratic Governance and the Justice System”

Accountability in African Public Policy and Administration 

8:40 am. Opening remarks

Roslyn Ng’eno, Senior Investment Expert at the AfCFTA Secretariat, Ghana
Modality: In-Person and Virtual
First Floor, Room A

9:00 am. Presentation

“Linking Ethics and Education to Corruption Prevention”

Jay Albanese, UN Liaison and Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Modality: In-Person and Virtual
First Floor, Room A

Accountability in African Public Policy and Administration 

Panel Ac1. Maladministration, Integrity, and Ethics

First Floor, Room A
Modality: In Person and Virtual
Moderator: Melinda Adams, James Madison University, USA

Zama Mthombeni, Human Sciences Research Council, Durban, South Africa
“South African Corruption During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Public Choice-Extractive Theory as an Alternative for Public Health Governance”

Charles Blake, James Madison University, USA
“Ethics, Effectiveness, and Anti-Corruption Efforts: A Responsibility Complement to the Accountability Approach”

Kwamina Panford, Northeastern University, USA 
“Pecan, Ghana’s Fourth Commercial Oil Field: Background Paper on Aker/AGM Petroleum Agreements”

Lochinvar Sloan, Peace Corps Fiji
“COVID-19 Chicanery and Pandemic Plundering: A Case Study of Government of Corruption in the USA”

Panel 2a. African American Literary Reflections as Resistance

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Jennifer L. Hayes, Tennessee State University, USA
Zoom Host: AAAD team

Rebecca S. Dixon, Tennessee State University, USA
“Death and Restoration in the Stories of Randall Kenan”

Jennifer L. Hayes, Tennessee State University, USA
“Quicksands of Representation: Toi Derricotte’s The Black Notebooks”

Zeba Shahbaaz, Tennessee State University, USA
“The Power of Testimony: A Call for Self-Help, Justice, and Freedom in Black Autobiographical Writing”

Panel 2b. Popular Cultures and Public Action

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Chante Barnwell, York University, Canada
Zoom host: Seán McCarthy, James Madison University, USA

RaShelle R. Peck, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, USA
“Futurity and the Post-Human in Megan Thee Stallion’s Music”

P. Thandi Hicks Harper, Youth Popular Culture Institute, Inc., USA
“Frederick Douglass in the Eras of Hip-Hop: Rhetoric and Activism for Freedom, Equity, and Social Justice”

Danny Tweedy, University of Mary Washington, USA
“The New Front-Line: The Need for Direct Action and Civil Disobedience Against Veiled Forms of Modern White Supremacy”

Panel 2c. Models on Reckoning with Slavery and Its Afterlives at Higher Education Institutions 

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Jajuan Johnson, The College of William & Mary, USA
Zoom Host: AAAD team

Jajuan Johnson, The College of William & Mary, USA
“Let the Records Show: Facing Hard History at Williams & Mary and the Work to Construct Better Histories”

Maria DiBenigno, College of William & Mary, USA
“Institutional Reckonings and Public Histories”

Darius Johnson, Washington College, USA
“Through-lines: College Chattel to Community Curators”

Accountability in African Public Policy and Administration 

Ambassadors’ Panel: Diplomatic Engagement in Anti-Corruption Initiatives

First Floor, Room A
Modality: In Person and Virtual
Moderator: Sombo Muzata, James Madison University, USA

Chibamba Kanyama, Zambia Ambassador to the United States
Elsie S. Kanza, Tanzania Ambassador to the United States
Amielle Pelenne Niriniavisoa Marceda, Acting Chargé d’affaires at the Embassy of Madagascar
Michael Gonzales, United States Ambassador to Zambia

Panel 3a. Visibilities

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: D. Caleb Smith, Mt. Holyoke College, USA
Zoom Host: AAAD Team

Chante Barnwell, York University, Canada
“Video Evidence, Excessive Force and The Hyper-Visibility of Black Mobility on Public Transit”

Ginger Nolan, University of Southern California, USA
“Calculating Racial Risk, Black Capitalism and the Art of the Actuary”

John Paine, West Virginia University, USA
“Camels, Bees, and Tourism: Livelihood Diversification in the Ever Changing Landscape of Kajiado, Kenya”

Beth Hinderliter, James Madison University, USA
“Half-Life: Decolonial Ecology and the Legacy of the ‘Chemical Capital of the South'”

Accountability in African Public Policy and Administration 

Panel Ac2. Combating Corruption: Laws, Anti-corruption Agencies and Education, 1

First Floor, Room A
Modality: In Person and Virtual
Moderator: Chris Changwe Nshimbi, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Samuel Umoh, University of Hradec Kralove, Czechia
“Corruption Agencies and Corruption: Case of Nigeria Anti-Graft Agencies”

Buagu Musazi, Morgan State University, USA
“The Role of the US Foreign Corruption Practices Act on Africa’s Direct Investments: A Literature Review and Future Research Possibilities”

Tumba Dieudonne, University of South Africa
“Investigating Enabling Factors for Electoral Corruption Occurrence in Africa: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo”

Dominic Offei, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
“Ghana’s Anti-Corruption Efforts; Challenges and Opportunities”

Panel Ac3. Transparency and Accountability in Public Resources Administration, 1

First Floor, Room B
Modality: In Person and Virtual
Moderator: Barbara A. Simmons, National Bar Association, USA

Francis Kairu, University of Washington, USA
“Insights into Advancing Tax Transparency in Africa: A Practical Approach from a Direct Practitioner”

Conrad John Masabo, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
“Rent Seeking and Economic Development: A Challenge for African Countries”

George A Awazi, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
“Accountability in Public Policy: Tenets of Corruption and Lack of Transparency as Impediments of Healthcare in Rural Communities. The Case of Cameroon”

Panel Ac4. The Nexus between Anti-Corruption Initiatives and National Development, 1

First Floor, Room C
Modality: Virtual Only
Moderator: Serena M. Wilcox, Wayne State University, USA

Shehu Salisu and Musa Idris, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
“Corruption and Public Service Delivery in Selected African Countries: A Comparative Perspective (2000-2022)”

Kabelo Mahlobogwane, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
“The Opportunity of Education as a Measure to Combat Corruption in South African Public Policy and Administration: Empowering Citizens for Enhanced Accountability”

Simataa Nakamboa, Independent, Zambia
“The Negative Consequences of Corruption on the Public Purse”

Panel 4a. Afro-Brazilian Landscapes: The Construction of Transatlantic Environments Amidst a Colonial World

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Lucas Santa Cruz de A. Brasil, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Zoom Host: AAAD team

Alexandro Solorzano, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janerio, Brazil
“Jackfruit: Cultural Legacy, Resilience, and Equity in the Urban Landscapes of the Mata Atlantica”

Lucas Santa Cruz de A. Brasil, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janerio, Brazil
“Would it be Fair to Call it an Afro-Brazilian Valley?: A Multispecies Historical Geography of a Post-Plantation Landscape”

Philippe Moreira, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janerio, Brazil
“From the Settlement of Inhomirim to the Bongaba Landfill: Rivers, Pathways, and Memories of the Diasporic Landscape in the Former Reconcavo da Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)”

Case Watkins, James Madison University, USA
“Gathering Stories for Climate Justice: Power, Recognition, and Intersectionality in Bahia’s Oil Palm Agroforests”

Panel 4b. Writing Where History Arrives

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: D. Caleb Smith, Mt. Holyoke College, USA
Zoom Host: Beth Hinderliter, James Madison University, USA

Ellie Vilakazi, Duke University, USA
“Bana Ba Straata: Zoning in on The Street as a Masculine Space”

Kewou Ndeuchi Florence, Rutgers University, USA
“Between Colonial Heritage and Post-Independence Dystopia: An Analysis of The Suns of Independence by Ahmadou Kourouma”

Saba Khaliq, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan 
“Manzil – A Decolonial Epistemic Insight into Pakistani Playwright, Anwar Maqsood’s Teleplay ‘Mirza and Sons’”

Accountability in African Public Policy and Administration 

8:15 am. Remarks

Heather Coltman, Provost, James Madison University
Modality: In-Person and Virtual
First Floor, Room A

8:30 am. Remarks

Richard Nephew, State Department Coordinator on Global Anti-Corruption, USA
Modality: In-Person and Virtual
First Floor, Room A

8:45 am. Government Accountability Office: Sharing Best Practices

First Floor, Room A
Modality: In Person and Virtual
Moderator: Chris Changwe Nshimbi, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Irina Carnevale, Assistant Director, Forensic Audits and Investigative Service, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Latesha Love-Grayer, Director, International Affairs and Trade, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Tonita W. Gillich, Assistant Director, Forensic Audits & Investigative Service, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Accountability in African Public Policy and Administration, Keynote

Felix Nkulukusa, Secretary to the Treasury, Zambia

The Fight against Corruption in Zambia, Insights on Successes, Challenges and Opportunities Going Forward

First Floor, Room A
Modality: In person and Virtual
Moderator: Sombo Muzata, James Madison University, USA

Reckoning with the African Diaspora in AP African American Studies

 Modality: Virtual Only
Moderator: Delores B. Phillips, James Madison University, USA

Nema Blyden, Professor of 19th Century African American History, University of Virginia

Teresa Reed, Dean of the School of Music, University of Louisville, and Inaugural Chief Reader for AP African American Studies

Cathy Brigham, Executive Director, AP Higher Education, College Board

Accountability in African Public Policy and Administration, Keynote

Jules Alingete Key, General Inspector of Finances, Democratic Republic of the Congo

First Floor, Room A
Modality: In person and Virtual
Moderator: Sombo Muzata, James Madison University, USA

Panel 5a. The (More-than-)Ecological African Diaspora: Human-Nature Interactions through an Afro-Brazilian Perspective

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Thomaz Amadeo, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Zoom Host: Case Watkins, James Madison University, USA

Thomaz Amadeo, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“A Diaspora of Religious-Ecological Ethics: Enchantment in Umbandas and Candombles as an Antidote for the Modern Dead Nature”

Elena Geppetti, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“The Gardens of Candomble: Plants-People Relationships through the Gaze of Afro-Brazilian Religions”

Maria Amadeo, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Perceptions and Relations between Quilombala Women and their Gardens in the Quilambo Community of Cafunda Astrogilda (Rio de Janeiro) as Resistance to the Ecological Crises of the Anthropocene”

Accountability in African Public Policy and Administration 

Panel Ac5. Attitudes, Behaviors, Social and Cultural Norms, and Values in Public Administration

First Floor, Room A
Modality: In Person and Virtual
Moderator: Merlene-Patrice Quispe, University of Minnesota, USA

Melinda Adams, James Madison University, USA
“Gender Differences in Perceptions of Corruption”

Clare Cheromoi, Makerere University, Uganda
“Precolonial Foundations of Post-independence Corruption in Uganda: A complexity Systems Perspective”

Grace Mukupa, National Fulbright Association, USA
“The Impact of Corruption on Smallholder Farmers’ Aspirations: A Comparative Study of Zambia and Malawi”

Panel Ac6. Threats to Implementation of Anti-Corruption Initiatives in Africa

First Floor, Room B
Modality: In Person and Virtual
Moderator: Olumide Lawal, World Bank, USA

Victory Ezuma, Babcock University, Nigeria
“The Difficult Circumstances Surrounding Anti-Corruption Efforts in Africa”

Simon Ngigi, KCA University, Kenya
“Navigating the Corrupted Path: Anticorruption Initiatives and Their Impact on Learning and Teaching in Kenyan Universities”

Esther Asiimwe, High Court of Uganda
“Anti-Money Laundering in the Ugandan Context: Challenges and Opportunities”

Aaron Ng’ambi, Independent, Zambia, and Misheck Kakonde, Independent, Zambia
“The Challenging Conditions in which Anti-Corruption Initiatives are being Implemented in Africa, A Case of Zambia”

Tafadzwa Makara, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
“A State Within a State and the Cooptation of Key State Institutions in Zimbabwe”

Panel Ac7. Combating Corruption: Laws, Anti-Corruption Agencies and Education, 2

First Floor, Room C
Modality: In Person and Virtual
Moderator: Harvey White, University of Delaware, USA

Emmanuel Lumbwe, Binary University, Malaysia
“Evaluating the Effectiveness of Fraud Risk Management in the Zambian Public Sector”

Oluwole Owoye, Western Connecticut State University, USA
“The Empirical Evaluations of the Progress in Controlling Corruption in African Countries”

Jane Shambare, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
“Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Institutional Reform in Zimbabwe”

Cecilia Idika-Kalu, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
“The Economy of Violent Extremism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Rules, Roles & Relationships”

Damilola B. Sholademi, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA
“The Flow of Small and Light Arms in The West African Sub-Region: Impact on The Proliferation of Violent Extremism”

Panel Ac8. Transparency and Accountability in Public Resources Administration, 2

Room 320
Modality: Virtual Only
Moderator: Leon Mwamba Tshimpka, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Weston Marume, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
“Resource Secularization and its Implications on Transparency and Accountability: Lessons from Zimbabwe Diamond Sector”

Sydicks Muradzikwa, Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe
“Zimbabwe’s Gilded Corruption: The Interplay of Organised Collusion, Kleptocracy and Money Laundering in the Extractive Industry in Zimbabwe”

Lukiko Vedastus Lukiko, Mzumbe University, Tanzania
“Resource Contracts Secrecy vis-a-vis Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources: Legal Analysis of Tanzania’s Extractive Industry”

Panel 6a. Education as Reckoning

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Courtney Swartzentruber, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Host: AAAD team

Serena Wilcox, Wayne State University, USA
“Critical Race Black Digital Publics, Pandemics, and Pedagogies: Possibilities for Transformative Anti-Racism Curriculum in Teacher Education”

Maria Carolina Almedia de Azevedo, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro / Municipal Department of Education of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“My History Didn’t Start with Slavery: Ancestral Knowledge as Guidance and Recovering to the Future of Black Brazilian Youth”

James Murray, University of Kentucky, USA
“Ethics of Care for Epistemic and Reparative Justice: Favorable Admissions Considerations and Tuition-Free College for American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS)”

Accountability in African Public Policy and Administration 

Panel Ac9. Harnessing Africa’s Economic Potential: Exploring Trade and Investment Opportunities

First Floor, Room A
Modality: In Person and Virtual
Moderator: Johanna Leblanc, Adomi Advisory Group, USA

Mariama Keita-Thiero, USAID

Panel Ac10. Debt, Accountability and Corruption: Towards Debt Sustainability in Zambia

First Floor, Room B
Modality: Virtual Only
Moderator: Evelyn Tembo, Ministry of Tourism and Arts, Zambia

Horman Chitonge, University of Cape Town, South Africa
“General Outlook of the Zambian Economy 1964-2023: Focus on GDP and Debt”

Alex Muyebe, Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection, Zambia
“The Impact of Debt Burden on Human Well-Being and Quality of Life of Citizens”

Patrick Chileshe, ACi Financial Markets Association, Zambia
“Obstacles of Growth: Fiscal Mismanagement, Lack of Accountability, Poor Resource Allocation and Corruption”

O’brien Kaaba, University of Zambia
“The Inadequacy of the Legal Framework Dealing with Debt Management and Corruption”

Dennis Nyati, Civil Society SDGs Campaign/GCAP Zambia
“The Role of Civil Society and Debt in Zambia: Lessons, Challenges, and Prospects for Debt Accountability and Sustainability”

Isaac Ngoma, Economics Association of Zambia
“Current Government Initiatives, Policies, and Programs to Address Economy Generally and Debt Crisis Particularly”

Kelly Michelo, University of Baltimore, USA
“Centering Public Value Principles in Debt Management in Zambia”

Panel Ac11. The Nexus between Anti-Corruption Initiatives and National Development, 2

First Floor, Room C
Modality: In Person and Virtual
Moderator: Damilola B. Sholademi, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA

Bismark Mutizwa, Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD)
“Unpacking The Impact Of State Capture And Economies Of Affection On Zimbabwe’s National Development Strategy (NDS) 1 (2020-2025)”

Olatunde Olaniyi, Nigerian Army College, Ilorin 
“Social Protection in Nigeria: For Who and In Whose Interest?”

Chilweza Muzongwe-Chipili, University of Zambia
“Stockouts of Essential Medicines: An Opportunity for Drug Pilferage, Corruption, and Catastrophic Health Expenditure”

Caleb Deborah Kamka, Babcock University, Nigeria
“Accountability in the Healthcare System”

Panel Ac12. Combating Corruption: Laws, Anti-Corruption Agencies and Education, 3

Room 320
Modality: Virtual Only
Moderator: Peter Haruna, Texas A&M International University, USA

Leah Mwagomba, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Malawi
“Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Measures in Law Enforcement Agencies – Case of Malawi Police Services”

Eunice Chotero, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), Kenya
“Potentials of Intelligence Led Investigations in Strengthening Anti-Corruption Law Enforcement”

Bili Lomthunzi, Anti-Corruption Commission, Zambia
“System Loopholes: The Impact of Corruption in Zambia”

AAAD Keynote

Lorgia García Peña, Princeton University

Against Death: Black Latinas’ Rebellion in Diasporic Community

Modality: Virtual Only
Moderator: Adérónké A. Adésànyà, James Madison University, USA

Panel 7a. History across Continents

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Grace Mukupa, National Fulbright Association, USA
Zoom Host: AAAD team

Juanjuan Peng, Georgia Southern University, USA
“​​Techno Mobile in Uganda and Kenya: The Historical and Social Implications of Chinese Private Investments in Africa”

Stephen M. Magu, Norfolk State University, USA
“Resistance to Slavery, Rebellion against Colonialism and Wars of Freedom: Africans There, Africans Here”

Amanda Walker Johnson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
“Reckoning and the Body within Francophone Caribbean Women’s Ethnography”

Andrea Arrington-Sirois, Indiana State University, USA
“Rhodesians never die, or they won’t if we leave our stories”: Remembering and Rehashing Rhodesia in the Digital Diaspora”

Panel 7b. Disciplinary Reckonings

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Elizabeth Gritter, Indiana University Southeast, USA
Zoom Host: AAAD team

Celia Raimundo, Sao Paulo State University, Brazil
“The Touch of Oya through Time”

Fredrick Douglass Dixon, Radford University, USA
“African American Studies or New Negro Studies?: A Critical Assessment of Black Studies from a Dr. Nathan Hare Perspective”

Rahma Maccarone, Georgetown University, USA
“Afro-Islamic Diasporic Countercultures”

Plenary Session: Africana Studies Workshop

Modality: Virtual Only

Sombo Muzata, James Madison University, USA
Chris Changwe Nshimbi, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Best Practices in US-Africa University Partnerships:
The Start of the Journey

Moderator: Sofia Samatar, James Madison University, USA

Panel 8a. Diasporic Blackness and Resistance: Reckoning of Black Identities in When the Spirits Dance Mambo

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Urnisa Karmakar, Texas A&M University, USA
Zoom Host: AAAD team

Alexa M. Hurtado-Montano, Texas A&M University, USA
“Ancestral Traces: The Journey of the African Diaspora, Santeria and Muntu Philosophy in Authors Marta Moreno Vega and Ashanti Dinah Orozco”

Sohee Kim, Texas A&M University, USA
“Towards a Mestiza Consciousness of Fashion: Reckoning Black Femininity in Afro-Latinx Literature”

Urnisa Karmakar, Texas A&M University, USA
“Interwoven Identities: Navigating Diasporic Notions of ‘Home’ in When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio”

Panel 8b. Reckoning and the Conjuncture

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Adérónké A. Adésànyà, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Host: AAAD team

Cameron Sauers, Pennsylvania State University, USA
“Reckoning with Reconstruction’s Radical Promise: James Beecher and the Betrayal of Order No.15”

D. Caleb Smith, Mt. Holyoke College, USA
“’Lot of Smoke – No Fire’: JFK, Executive Order 10925, and the Unfulfilled Promises to Black Labor, 1961-1965″

Megan Emery, Georgetown University, USA
“Henriette Delille and Marie Laveau: Byproducts and Proponents of Intersectional Religious Education in New Orleans, 1830-1850″

Panel 9a. Writing Black Life

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Tiff Polzin, James Madison University, USA
Zoom Host: Rita Stephan, James Madison University, USA

Genesis Perez, Tufts University, USA
“Reckoning with Responsibility: Homemaking as Social Reproduction in Black British Novels

Morgan Aderton, James Madison University, USA
“Horror, Gynopolitics, and the Birth of Black Cultural Motherhood”

Sarah Jenkins, Howard University, USA
“African American Literature Reconsidered: The Field, the Soil of its Roots, and the Garden of Today”

Kandice Fowlkes, Clayton State University, USA
“Black Masculinity & Femininity: Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race & Gender for the Black Psyche”

Panel 9b. An Urgent Call to Center Black Faculty Safety, Wellness, & Care

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Dannielle Joy Davis, Saint Louis University, USA, and Cassandra D. Chaney, Louisiana State University, USA
Zoom host: Nikema Bell, James Madison University, USA

Manisha Ford-Thomas, Saint Louis University, USA
“Affinity Spaces and Black Women”

Cassandra D. Chaney, Louisiana State University, USA
“A Conceptual Framework of Workplace Bullying of Black Women at Primarily White Institutions (PWIs)”

Dannielle Joy Davis, Saint Louis University, USA
“Revisiting ‘Academe as Extreme Sport’”

Philippe SHOCK Matthews, Independent, USA
“Black Trauma: ‘Nothing is wrong with Black people. Something happened to Black people’”

Panel 9c. Reckoning with Misogynoir

Modality: Virtual Only

Moderator: Ashleigh Greene Wade, University of Virginia, USA
Zoom host: Haylee Edwards, James Madison University, USA

Briana Barner, University of Maryland, USA
“Podcasting From the Margins of the Margin”

Aria S. Halliday, University of Kentucky, USA
“Mean Black Girls”

Mahaliah Little, University of California, Irvine, USA
“Who Can We Run To?: Black Women, Testimony, and Retaliation”

Timeka N. Tounsel, University of Washington, USA
“’Challenging Beauty Standards and Ignoring the Haters’: Countering Misogynoir Through the Spectacle of Glamour”

Ashleigh Greene Wade, University of Virginia, USA
“Black Girls Refusing the Gaze of Misogynoir through Digital Practice”