Africana Research Center Presents the Emerging Scholars Speaker Series
The Africana Research Center will host the Emerging Scholars Speakers Series from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Assembly Room at the Nittany Lion Inn, University Park. The purpose of the event is to showcase and highlight the research of early career scholars as well as bring emergent research to the attention of the Penn State community. In keeping with the mission of the center, the scholars will focus on research topics of concern to Africa and/or the African Diaspora.
Seven distinguished, early career scholars from universities across the nation will present their research over the course of the day. Research topics include:
-- "The Derilectical Crisis of African American Philosophy and Its Culturalogical Reformulation: How African American Philosophy Fails to Contribute to the Study of African Descended People," Tommy Curry, doctoral degree candidate in philosophy, Southern Illinois University;
-- "Difference Embodied: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Cultural Discourse of Sex-Work in Cuba" Alyssa Garcia, doctoral degree candidate in anthropology, University of Illinois;
-- "Behind Door Three: Identity, Power and Black Queer Male Teachers," Ed Brockenbrough, doctoral degree candidate in education, University of Pennsylvania;
-- "Musicians Outside the Circle of the "Collapse of Certainty: Race, Punishment, and Performance in Post-Abolition Brazil (1880s-1940s)," Marc Hertzman, doctoral degree candidate in Latin American history, University of Wisconsin;
-- "Desegregating the Past: The Transformation of Historical Imagination in South Africa and the United States," Robyn Autry, doctoral degree candidate in sociology, University of Wisconsin;
-- "Black Rainbows: Gender, Class, and (Race?) in the Writings of White South African Women after Apartheid," Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, doctorate in political science, San Francisco State University;
-- "Viewing the Sartrean Gaze Through the Eyes of Frantz Fanon and Richard Wright," Kathryn Gines, doctorate in philosophy, Vanderbilt University.
The event is free to the public. For information, please call (814) 865-6482.
This press release courtesy of Penn State's Department of Public Information
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