Monmouth County - West Long Branch - Sixth Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Race


November 14-16 – Monmouth County

Sixth Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Race

THEME: Race, Memory, and Identity
DATE: Thursday, November 14 to Saturday, November 16, 2019
VENUE: Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ

    This conference aims to bring together scholars from multiple disciplinary perspectives to broadly explore the intersections of Race, Memory, and Identity. Contemporary social, political, and media discourses demonstrate the continued need to evaluate the differing ways that race and identity impact memory in connection to history, trauma, loss, and remembrance. Understanding memory as both a subject and a tool can act to promote conversations about how memories of the past impress upon individual and collective memory to affectively shape racial and cultural identities. How might we remember the legacies of personal and historical injustices in the present while at the same time shaping the future to allow for an exploration of the persistently entangled forces of remembrance, identity, and justice?

    FOR MORE INFORMATION, click click here.

For further information you may contact the conference conveners:

·        Brooke Nappi, Lecturer of Cultural Anthropology, Department of History and 
Anthropology, bnappi@monmouth.edu

·        Maryanne Rhett, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and World History, Department of History and Anthropology, mrhett@monmouth.edu


·        Hotels and Accommodations


Thursday, November 14:  Opening Plenary Lecture: Wilson Hall Auditorium (2:50 – 4:10pm) Dr. William Sturkey, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina  Founder’s Event: Wilson Hall Auditorium (4:30 - 5:30) A Celebration of Dr. Julius Adekunle’s Work, Mentorship, and Foundational Contributions  5:30—6:00 Mingling and Snacks  Cultural Event – Memory in African American Music and Culture: An Extravaganza Wilson Hall Auditorium (6:00 – 8:30pm)

Friday, November 15:  Panels and Workshops in the morning and afternoon (8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Magill Commons)  Plenary Speaker: Versailles and Pompeii, Wilson Hall (11:40 – 1:00pm) RSVP, limited seating. Tiffany Williams, Assistant Professor, Pepperdine Law  Keynote Speaker: Wilson Auditorium (4:30 – 6:00pm) Dr. Qiana Whitted, Professor, University of South Carolina (RSVP for the reception to follow, Wilson Great Hall, talk is open to all)

Saturday, November 16:  Panels and workshops (8:30am – 12:00pm, Magill Commons) See details in conference program.
Location: 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA

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