18 JUNE
Moderators:
Dr. Wilmot Allen (VentureLift Africa)
Ms. Hillary Andoh (Founder and CEO, HSA PR)
Featured speakers:
Mr. Akwasi Awuah Ababio (Diaspora Affairs, Office of the President-Ghana)
Mr. Yohannes Assefa (Board Member, Ethiopia Trust Fund-US)
Mr. Robert Brown (Founder/CEO, B&C International-US)
Hon. Abike Dabi-Frewa (Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission-Nigeria)
Mr. Paulo Gomes (President, Executive Committee of the AfroChampions Initiative-Senegal)
Ms. Elsa Juko-McDowell (Chairwoman, East Africa Chamber of Commerce-US)
Mr. Lee Karuri (Chairman, Kenya Private Sector Alliance Foundation-Kenya)
Prince Akinwale Ojomo (CEO, Diaspora Innovation Institute-Nigeria)
Mr. Ron Parker (CEO, National Association of Security Professionals-US)
Mr. Michael Sudarkasa (Group CEO, Africa Business Group-South Africa)
Ms. Nekesa Were (Interim Executive Director, AfriLabs-Kenya)
25 JUNE
Exploring Global Challenges of African Diasporic Communities
Elena Clarke (Harvard University)
Iterative Domestic Space: Shifting Focus to the Social and Spatial Homemaking Strategies of West-African Diasporic Communities Living in Rome
István Tarrósy (University of Pėcs)
Extending Global African Diaspora Research: The Case of the ‘Neglected African Communities’ of Post-Communist Central Europe
Shobana Shankar (Stony Brook University)
Blackness and Anti-Blackness in Asia
Emmanuel Chima (Michigan State University)
Refugee Youth Identity Formation at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Dowa District, Malawi
9 JULY
Imagined Identities, Boundaries and Relations Among People of African Descent
PANELISTS
African & American: Being Doubly Conscious of Two Worlds
Frederick W. Gooding, Jr. (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Texas Christian University)
The Role of Cultural Arts in Connecting and Unifying People of African Descent
Njia Kai (Director/Producer and Senior Consultant, NKSK Events + Productions, LLC; Programming/Production Consultant, Detroit Events Team, LLC; Performing Arts Mnager, Mid-town Detroit, Inc.)
Katikati: Leveraging Un/belonging of the New Diaspora
Harry Kiiru (Graduate student in the Department of African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Beyond the Year of Return: The Perspective of a Ghanaian Journalist
Bridget Otoo (Television Journalist and Media Practitioner)
CHAIR
Philip Effiong (Associate Professor of Theatre Studies, Michigan State University)
DISCUSSANTS
Shingi Mavima (Assistant Professor of History, Toledo University)
Akosua Adomako Ampofo (Professor of African and Gender Studies, University of Ghana (UG), and President of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA))
PANEL CONVENER
Upenyu S. Majee (Project Manager for the Ubuntu Dialogues: Museums and Communities Connect, Michigan State University)
6 AUGUST
Global Health in the Time of Corona
How COVID-19 has Compounded the Racist and Personal Authenticity Challenges of diasporic African People
Nicholas Uchechukwu Asogwa (University of Nigeria)
Survival strategies adopted by informal trader Zimbabwean immigrants living in the Johannesburg inner-city during COVID-19-indued lockdown in South Africa
Oncemore Mbeve (University of the Witwatersrand)
Contributions by a US Medical School to Reducing Africa’s Physician Crisis
Peggy Honoré (Louisiana State University)
Africa-US Forum 