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Sankofa Black Studies / Diasporic Futures: A global conversation among information scholars

Mar 23, 2022   11:00 am - 12:30 pm  
Lecture
3-23-11
Sponsor
Sponsored by the Mortenson Center, Department of African American Studies, Center for Advanced Studies, Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the iSchool
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Originating Calendar
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Presenting and critically engaging with The History of Black Studies by Abdul Alkalimat (Pluto Press 2021)
- Online, free to all, register at: https://go.illinois.edu/sankofablackstudies
 

Speakers:

  • Abdul Alkalimat, Professor Emeritus, Department of African American Studies and School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois
  • Paulette Kerr, Campus Librarian, University of the West Indies Mona, Jamaica
  • Archie Dick, Professor Emeritus, Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Moderator: Rebecca Hankins, Wendler Endowed Professor, Texas A&M University Libraries

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