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Time:  11:00AM – 6:00PM NYC(EST), 3:00PM- 10PM Accra (GMT), 6:00 PM-1:00 AM Nairobi (EAT).

Join us for The Philosophy and Religion in Africana Traditions 12th annual Conference which will revisit thinking on colonialism. We hope to explore how thinkers such as Amilcar Cabral, Aimee Cesaire, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Vine Deloria, Frantz Fanon, Walter Rodney and Malcolm X approach the colonial with special attention to the questions settler colonialism and the logic of elimination, and their links to white supremacy, imperialism and capitalism on the domestic and international levels. This is an online conference held virtually via Zoom.

PROGRAM:

11:00: Opening greetings: J Everet Green , Mary Taylor

11:10-11:50:  (EST): Africa Unbound: Revolt, Reclaim, Reimagine — Rodney and Fanon on Africa’s Liberation and Future 

Stephen Onyango Ouma, Consolata Institute of Philosophy (CIP), Tangaza University, Maasai Mara University, and Marist International University College

11:50-12:40:  Revolution in These Times:  Antifascism, Black Liberation, and a Culture of Resistance 

Dhoruba bin Wahad, The Socialist Movement of Ghana

Kwesi Pratt, Secretary General of the Socialist Movement of Ghana

12:40-1:25: Solidarity session   

Maurice Carney,  Executive Director, Friends of the Congo  

1:30-2:20:  Processes of Recolonization: Debt, Witchhunting, and the Politics of Permanent Warfare

Silvia Federici, Professor Emeritus, Hofstra University

2:30-4:00:  Keynote: The Class of Nineteen Twenty-Five Speaks to the Crisis of the Twenty-First Century  

William Sales, Professor Emeritus, Seton Hall University 

4:00-4:50: A Survey of Native American Perspectives on Decolonization

Gail Presbey, Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive, Department Chair of Philosophy, University of Detroit, Mercy

4:50-5:40: Dialogue: Learning from Walter Rodney 

Rakhee Kewada, Graduate Center, CUNY and Agrarian South Network

Nara Roberta Silva, Core Faculty & Praxis Program Head, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research 

5:40-6:00: Closing remarks and greetings

The 12th annual PRAT conference is co-sponsored by Humanitas, the African Ethical Society and the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Please direct questions to Dr. J Everet Green: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Sincere gratitude to Mary Taylor for her support over the past thirteen years in making this annual event possible, and to Malav Kanuga at Common Notions Press and Sampson Starkweather and Kendra Sullivan at the Center for the Humanities for their ideas, support, enthusiasm and labors.