8:30 to 9:15am

Opening Ceremony

9:30 to 10:45am

Africology in Action: Frame works and Methods

11:00am to 12:15pm

Beyond Defense: Reimagining Black Studies

2:00 to 3:15pm

Afrofuturist Realities in Ryan Coogler’s Works: Pasts, Presents, and Futures in Ironheart, Sinners, and Black Panther

3:30 to 4:45pm

Black Radical Practices: A Collective Thought

5:00 to 6:15pm

Book Author Signing

6:30 to 7:30pm

NCBS General Body Meeting

7:30 to 10:00pm

Local Host Committee - Movie Screening

9:30 to 10:45am

Afrofuturism and World Order: Black Studies and the Struggle for Cognitive Sovereignty

11:00am to 12:15pm

Beyond Borders: Black Diaspora, Blackness, and Transnational Cultural Practice

2:00 to 3:15pm

Beyond The Order(s) of Politicality

3:30 to 4:45pm

The Afterlife of Experience: Diasporic Legacies and Ancestral Instruction

5:00 to 6:15pm

Black Advocacy, Magrinalization, and White Supremacy

9:30 to 10:45am

Global Black Studies: The Continuation of the Revolutionary African Woman

11:00am to 12:15pm

Black Communities in Resistance and in Thriving

2:00 to 3:15pm

From Abolition to the Classroom: Black Studies as Spear, Pedagogy, Resilience and Dissent

3:30 to 4:45pm

Black Bodies, Knowledge of Being, Preservation and Transmission of Knowledge

5:00 to 6:15pm

Words as Weapons: Harnessing uMkhonto weSizwe in Black Language Sovereignty, and the Fight Against Linguicide & Linguistic...

9:30 to 10:45am

Black Studies at Western Carolina University: The Time and What Must Be Done—A Story of Survival

11:00am to 12:15pm

Black Studies at Western Carolina University, Where Do We Go from Here, Chaos or Community?

2:00 to 3:15pm

Black Educators as Architects of Uncompromising Liberation through Love, Care, and Radical Pedagogy

3:30 to 4:45pm

Black Folk and Social Conditions: Then and Now

5:00 to 6:15pm

Black Beaches - A Maroon Society (First Edit)

9:30 to 10:45am

The Literary Legacy of Elizabeth Nunez

11:00am to 12:15pm

Black Epistemologies in Motion: Cultural Memory, Artistic Practice, and Knowledge Production Across the Black Americas

2:00 to 3:15pm

Black Identity Formations, and Perspectives on Notions of Blackness and Belonging

3:30 to 4:45pm

Black Male Mentorship: Elders, Guidance, and the Making of Black Futures

5:00 to 6:15pm

Black Media, Black Music, and The Black Millennium

9:30 to 10:45am

Agency as Ritual, Religion, and Rage: Racial Trauma and Healing Practices in the Black World

2:00 to 3:15pm

Black Media, Culture & Political Power (Student Panel)

5:00 to 6:15pm

Black Studies and Knowledge as Building Blocks for A Global Future

9:30 to 10:45am

Black Representation, Misinformation, and Power in the Public Sphere

11:00am to 12:15pm

Black Studies as Praxis: Confronting Anti-Blackness across Campuses, Classrooms, Texts, and Community Archives

2:00 to 3:15pm

The Major and the Motherland

3:30 to 4:45pm

Black Study Without Permission: Building Community Classrooms and Partnerships to Preserve Critical Inquiry

5:00 to 6:15pm

Black Women and Womanhood, Community and Liberated Being

9:30 to 10:45am

Pan Africanism and International Relations

11:00am to 12:15pm

Books, Media and Music : Afro-futurism and Sites of Hope

2:00 to 3:15pm

Bridging Theory and Lived Experience of Gullah-Geechee Culture and History: Sharing Interdisciplinary Perspectives with...

3:30 to 4:45pm

Celebrating 50 years of Black Studies While Building Toward 100: An Eastern Michigan University Case Study

5:00 to 6:15pm

Centering Black Midwives in the Fight for Civil Rights, Health Equity, and Educational Excellence

11:00am to 12:15pm

Contested Geographies: Reclaiming Narratives of Black Survival and Success Across Borders

2:00 to 3:15pm

Conversations in Black Literature

3:30 to 4:45pm

Counter-revolution Against Black Studies: Internal and External Threats on Black Intellectual Life

5:00 to 6:15pm

Culturally Affirming Practices to Strengthen Belonging, Self-Efficacy, and Identity Development

9:30 to 10:45am

Curriculum, Care, and Resistance: Black Educational Methodology and Praxis

2:00 to 3:15pm

Decolonialization, Self-Determination, and Re-Centering Blackness

5:00 to 6:15pm

The War on Blackness