From the Center for Studies on Africa & Its Diaspora:
"The Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora (CSAD) and Georgia State’s College of Arts and Sciences announce CSAD’s Speaker Series to be convened semi-annually through fall 2021.
Join CSAD at 6 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, Aug. 6 for “Race and the Role of the Academy in the Post-Awakening World," the inaugural event of the new Speaker Series.
To register for this event, visit https://bit.ly/csad0806.
On Aug. 6, we are honored to welcome three of the foremost scholars in African American and Africana studies: Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University and president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History; Dr. Amilcar Shabazz, professor, the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts and president of the National Council of Black Studies; and Dr. Keisha N. Blain, associate professor of history, the University of Pittsburgh, and president of the African American Intellectual History Society.
Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Chair & Professor of African American Studies, Georgia State University
Dr. Jonathan Gayles, chair of African-American Studies at Georgia State, will moderate the panel as they engage us in a discussion on the work and relevance of Africana studies at this critical historical moment.
CSAD invites you to participate in a thought-provoking and engaging exchange on the power of the Humanities and Africana Studies to chart the way for new pedagogical delivery through a lens of social justice and race."
Editor's note: CSAD is an outgrowth of the Commission for the Next Generation of Faculty's transformative recommendations to foster diversity, equity and inclusion at Georgia State. Read more about CSAD here.