African American & African Diaspora Studies

CACE 2022

Tuesday, Feb. 22

9:00am-10:00am

John Z. Kiss, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Greeting

Honorable Cheri Beasley, Former Chief Justice and Current U.S. Senate Candidate, North Carolina, Opening Remarks 
Introduced by Dr. April Ruffin Adams 

“Making Space and Utilizing Our Power Through Civic Engagement”: 

Community Workshop, Deanelle Thompson, You Can Vote 

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022-civic-engagement

10am-11:00am

Brandi Locke and Denise Burgher, University of Delaware, keynote speakers, “Where Y’All At?” Locating Black Women in the Colored Conventions 
Introduced by Aleeah Harris, with Dr. RJ Boutelle 
Sponsored by She Can, We Can: Beyond the Women’s Suffrage Centennial, with the Office of the Provost

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022_locating_black_women

11:15am-12:30pm

“We Make the Culture Hum”: The Digital Spatiality of Black Music: A Roundtable  
Dr. Armondo Collins, Head, Digital Media Commons UNCG; Dr. Rhonda Jones, Community Digital Archivist, Digital Media Commons/SCUA; Cameron Rabb, UNCG; Alana Weston, UNCG 

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022-digital-spatiality

12:30pm-1:45pm

“Reclaiming Black Spaces in Granville County, North Carolina: The Granville County African American Public History Project”  
Ally Beatty, Kaila Dollard (UNCC Public History) 
Dr. Omar Ali, Chair 

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022_reclaiming_black_spaces

Tuesday, Feb. 22

2:00pm-3:15pm

“Black Spacemaking in Nature, Music, and Migration”   
T’Shari White, Ph.D. candidate in Geography, Environment and Sustainability Dr. Hewan Girma, AADS, Dr. David Aarons, Ethnomusicology,  
Dr. Gavin Douglas, Chair

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022-black-spacemaking-nature

3:30pm-4:45pm

“The History of Black Studies at UNC Greensboro”: AADS Student Roundtable 
Alecia Richardson, Owusu Takyi, Geneva Nicholson,  
Dr. Shelly Brown-Jeffy, Chair 

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022_black_studies_uncg

5:00pm-7:00pm

Literary Café:  Hip Hop, Poetry, and Black Spacemaking 
Mr. Thomas Taylor and Josephus III, MCs

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022-literary-cafe

7:00pm-8:00pm

“Whatever Happened to Black Boys?” A Poetry Reading 
James Jabar, MFA English 

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022_happened_to_black_boys

Weds. Feb 23

9:00am-11:00am 

Professor Regina McCoy, Provost’s Fellow of Student Success, Opening Remarks, second day of conference. 

“Black Placemaking in Museum Studies” 
“Blandwood Mansion as a site of African American history” Chris Munster, UNCG Museum Studies; “Before Us Lay the City of Strangers: The Freedom Seeker’s Journey” Elizabeth Konopka, UNCG Museum Studies; “Skill, and Resistance: Black Craftspeople and Acts of Defiance” Sade Comiska, UNCG Museum Studies; “The Historic Odd Fellows Cemetery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Digitizing and Restoring a Historic African American Cemetery” Cliff Whitfield, UNCG Museum Studies  
Dr. Torren Gatson, Chair, History 

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022-museum-studies

11:00am-12:00pm

Remembering bell hooks at CACE: A Reflection on Spacemaking at UNC Greensboro 
Dr. Noelle Morrissette with Dr. Armondo Collins 

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022_remembering_bell_hooks

12:00pm-1:00pm

African Language Study: A Roundtable 
Dr. Omar Ali (AADS), Ms. Tiera Moore (AADS alumni), Mulubrhan Kidanu (AADS major), Cassandra Workman (Anthropology) 

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022-african-language

1:00pm-3:00pm

Placemaking in African American Life and Literature  
“The Soul of the Mulatto Woman” Satoria Craft, PoliSci; Phillis Wheatley’s ‘On Being Brought from Africa to America’: Symbols and Significance” CC Kallam, English; “Iola Leroy and the Idea of Racial Uplift” Lindsay Shook, English; “Place in Toni Morrison’s Beloved” Eliana Brown, English  
Dr. RJ Boutelle, Chair

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022_placemaking

3:00pm-4:00pm 

The Equal Justice Initiative: Our Experience Claiming Wake County, NC’s Lynch Victim: A Community and Student Roundtable 
Mikhaila Lambert, AADS major, Mr. Matthew Scialdone, Middle Creek High School; Joined by Leo Ivey (AADS minor), Coryanna Jefferies, Anna Padilla (IAR major)  
Dr. Noelle Morrissette, facilitator 

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022-equal-justice

4:00pm-6:00pm

Da’Shaun Harrison, [email TBA] Virtual Talk Back with Author and Activist (event co-sponsored with the Office of Intercultural Engagement)  
Victoria Walters, Assistant Director, Office of Intercultural Engagement, and Nakia Hoskins, External Engagement Coordinator, University Libraries, Facilitators 

Attendee Link: https://go.uncg.edu/cace2022_virtual_talk_back