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Symposium on Afrofuturism and Diasporic Research

8:30am EST

Check-in & Refreshments Cornelson Meeting Room (aka The Fishbowl) All-Day Registration Duke Energy Hall (Lobby)

9:00am EST

Opening Mixer: Collective Storying and Dreaming Teaching & Visualization Lab (4th floor)

9:45am EST

World Café: (Re)membering our Stories Duke Energy HallDr. angela gay-audre & Melissa Edwards Smith

11:00am EST

Dasan Ahanu Session 1 (Prelude to a Keynote) IEI 4107 Poster Presentations - Part 1 Teaching & Visualization Lab (4th floor)Francesca Kyanda • Keira Moore • Neil Alexander Phillips • Robert Carl Swann • Oluwafunmilayo Olabode • Alicia Burnette Whitley Rituals: Black Women Healing through Ancient Practices The Landing (3rd floor)Crystal Thompson • Valerie McConnell Wellness Activity 1 Room 4502 Echoes of Tomorrow: How Afrofuturism Shapes Music IEI 4101Christopher Dunstan Storytellers and Leaders: Black High School Students Create Games for Good IEI 4105Christy Byrd

11:20am EST

Dasan Ahanu Session 1 (Prelude to a Keynote) IEI 4107

11:30am EST

Poster Presentations - Part 2 Teaching & Visualization Lab (4th floor)Dr. Angela Allen • Kaitlan C. Farrior • Alejandro Ibrahim • Brionna Johnson • Alina V. Roach • Rue Tshamala

11:45am EST

Keynote Luncheon Duke Energy HallDasan Ahanu

1:00pm EST

CANCELLED - Sowing Stories: Black Women Farmers’ Narratives as Research The Landing (3rd floor)Elisabeth Ramsey CANCELLED- Critical Space Theory: Black Nationalism, Afrofuturism, and Psychedelia in Kid Cudi’s Man on the Moon IEI 4107Alexander Moore An Island for an Exiled: Multisensory Encounters with Cultural Estrangement and Sacred Exile Teaching & Visualization Lab (4th floor)Paula Damasceno Home and Place: Mapping the Black Experience IEI 4101Kaitlan C. Farrior The Sky People: An Afro-Shemetic Futurism Creation Story IEI 4105Abba Rahbert Haynes • Margie Marie Wellness Activity Room 4502

1:30pm EST

Storytelling with #PassTheMicYouth IEI 4107Christy Byrd • Maru Gonzalez Threads of Memory, Tapestries of Tomorrow: Storytelling through Sankofa and Afrofuturism The Landing (3rd floor)Isabella Gyimah • Dr. Isaac Woods

2:00pm EST

Listening, Reflecting, and Honoring: How Black Scholars Used Black Stories to Create an Empirically-Based Stage Play IEI 4107Roshaunda Breeden CANCELED: TRIO and McNair Scholars Informational Session The Landing (3rd floor) Imagining Futures: Archiving With and For our Communities IEI 4101Ericka Christie • Dr. Shima Hosseininasab • Virginia Ferris Sistas in the Salon: A Reflection of Their Journey to Finding Belonging at a Predominately White Institution IEI 4105Janay Crosland Wellness Activity Room 4502

2:30pm EST

Rhetorical Healing: Using Black English to Tell and Document Stories IEI 4107Sara Alexander The Cypher of Possibilities Teaching & Visualization Lab (4th floor)Keira Moore

3:00pm EST

A MAGIC Tour of Mitchelville: Teaching Gullah-Geechee Heritage through Immersive Design IEI 4105Topher Maraffi • Iyare Oronsaye Black Autistic Rhetoric: A Community Virtual Hub IEI 4107Jelina (Jo) Miller Reimagining Black Health: A Journey Through Past, Present, and Future IEI 4101Julia Ross • Ore Badejoh • Abbey Collins • Melissa Holland • Dr. Vanessa Volpe Intergenerational Conversations The Landing (3rd floor) Wellness Room 4502

3:30pm EST

20 Min Breakout Session 8: Folklore and Futurism: Reimagining Caribbean Worlds Through Speculative Fiction (Block D2) IEI 4105Dr. Tricia Clarke CANCELLED - The Kilmonger Complex - The Intersection of Language and Lineage in the American South IEI 4107Afumbom Okosun

3:45pm EST

History of Black Social Dance: Line Dancing Duke Energy Room ARobert Epps, Jr. • Jamese Carrell Epps

4:45pm EST

Networking Reception Duke Energy Hall Room BAll