Monthly Archives: April 2008

Pan Symposium 2008 Opening Day

So my day started with a 2.5-hour drive from Amherst, MA, to the airport in Providence, RI. From a flight to Atlanta, I then took MARTA to West End Station, then the Woodruff Library shuttle to the front of the CAU Student Center….

Pan People

Dr. Ajamu Nyomba, founder of Pan People Steelband, is the pannist with the white beard. He and I go back almost 30 years to when he was a Ph.D. student in Economics and I was an undergrad major (precocious enough to take grad classes) at the University of Texas at Austin. I would only travel like this for Ajamu! The small but sizzling concert in front of the CAU Student Center was followed by the Symposium’s Opening Reception at the Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, on the 2nd Floor of Trevor Arnett Hall. Participants included:

  • Dr. Ajamu Nyomba, Chair, Department of Economics & Decision Sciences
  • Pan Trio: Elmer Pride, Kiara Nyomba & Kisha Whiskey
  • Pan Soloist: Nicholas Mohan
  • Gerard Greene, Consul General of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago

Good vibes, sweet music, tasty food…the Pan Symposium is off to a good start!

Dr. Johnnetta Cole speaks, 4/8/2008, 4:30pm

Civility and Culture In Our Time

I have wanted to meet Johnnetta Cole for a longtime. This week I will finally have that chance and so will you.She is a prolific scholar. Some of her works include:

  • All-American Women: Lines That Divide, Ties That Bind, 1986.

  • Conversations: Straight Talk with America’s Sister President, Doubleday, 1993.

  • Dream the Boldest Dreams: And Other Lessons of Life, Longstreet Press, 1997.

  • (with Beverly Guy-Sheftall) Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities, Ballantine Books, 2003.

  • Editor of Anthropology for the Eighties and Anthropology for the Nineties. Contributor to numerous magazines and journals, including a regular column for McCall’s. Member of editorial board of Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, Black Scholar, Emerge, and SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women.

  • I hope all our graduate students and faculty turn out for her lecture.

    Angels fund Esther Terry Award

     

    Building a Legacy: Endowed Scholarship Aids Groundbreaking Work in Afro-American Studies

    “Created by an anonymous donor, The Esther M. Terry Award is the first fund in the W.E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies designed to build scholarship in Afro-American life and letters.” — Click picture to read full story…and then give, if you can!