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Peace in the Twenty-Second Century: An Afrofuturist History (20 February 2025)
PEACE IN THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY: An Afrofuturist History Professor Walter D. Greason, Ph.D. Welcome and thank you to the amazing people who could join us here tonight. This day started in early September 1978. My parents, David Harlan and Wilma Ham Greason, made everything possible. This presentation is dedicated to their memory. History is a…
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The Red Empire: Global Palestine & Urban Mass Incarceration (15 November 2024)
Part 3: Sage Series I 5524.3 Benjamin Netanyahu used the opportunity of a cowardly massacre on stolen land to escalate a conflict that has fractured the Western world. Much as the United States maliciously killed hundreds of thousands as part of its triple war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the War on Terror, Israel’s prime minister…
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Black Dreams: Dystopias in Afrofuturism (15 November 2024)
PART II: Sage Series I 2254.2 Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany opened the doors to literature that included the voices of Black people in the future. Notably, these stories did not focus on the specifics of culture and history across the African diaspora, but quietly humanized the existence of Africans and African Americans. These stories…
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George Zimmerman: The Emperor Joker (15 November 2024)
PART I: Sage Series 5524.1 When George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin in 2012, President Barack Obama lamented the tragedy and Black activists began to organize an international movement called “Black Lives Matter.” In response, opponents of this movement created slogans like “All lives matter” and “Blue lives matter” to emphasize that the killing of Black…
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Racism and Digital Media (31 May 2024)
Ellie Spangler designed multiple artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create this short video about the evolution of media since 2001 and the need for interdisciplinary media design skills in the twenty-first century.
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Afrofuturism and Black Urban Design (20 May 2024)
A brief synopsis of new research by Bryson Berry, Macalester College, Class of 2024 In Summer 2023, Bryson Berry raised a series of questions about how to combine economic, geographic, and historical analysis to understand patterns of stratification and segregation related to the racial wealth gap in the United States. This file offers a brief…
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OER.AI : Open Educational Resources at the Birth of Artificial Intelligence (21 March 2024)
_______________________________ Good morning, and thank you for joining these important conversations over the next two days here at Kean University in New Jersey. I extend my gratitude to the organizers of the conference and the senior leadership team whose visionary leadership makes this event possible, especially my friend, President Lamont Repollet. My name is Walter…
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‘A Matter of Chance’? : The Place-Making Tradition in African-American History (January 2024)
With gratitude to Professor Scot French, Professor Julian Chambliss, the Academic Conference team, and the entire network of Zora Neale Hurston Festival champions, led by N.Y. Nathiri, THANK YOU for the opportunity to share these words in the final year of the Afrofuturism Conference series. I have to take a moment to dedicate this presentation…
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Environment and Architecture: Maroon Communities in Suriname (N. Howland, 2023)
A detailed interdisciplinary photo essay about maroon communities that challenges current scholarship on sustainability and architecture.
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Past and Present: Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp and Suriname (M. Zinman, 2023)
A detailed, comparative historical photo essay about maroon communities that synthesizes many of the most recent scholarly insights and raises new questions about the larger impact of petit marronage in the western hemisphere..
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