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Symposium on Afrofuturism and Diasporic Research

Hannah Rainey

North Carolina State University

Associate Head, Research Engagement

8:30am EST

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

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

Poster Presentations - Part 1 Teaching & Visualization Lab (4th floor)Francesca Kyanda • Keira Moore • Neil Alexander Phillips • Robert Carl Swann • Oluwafunmilayo Olabode • Alicia Burnette Whitley

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

An Island for an Exiled: Multisensory Encounters with Cultural Estrangement and Sacred Exile Teaching & Visualization Lab (4th floor)Paula Damasceno

2:00pm EST

Imagining Futures: Archiving With and For our Communities IEI 4101Ericka Christie • Dr. Shima Hosseininasab • Virginia Ferris Listening, Reflecting, and Honoring: How Black Scholars Used Black Stories to Create an Empirically-Based Stage Play IEI 4107Roshaunda Breeden

2:30pm EST

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

3:30pm EST

20 Min Breakout Session 8: Folklore and Futurism: Reimagining Caribbean Worlds Through Speculative Fiction (Block D2) IEI 4105Dr. Tricia Clarke

3:45pm EST

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