Sankofa Black Studies / Diasporic Futures: A global conversation among information scholars – A Presentation and critical engagement of the book: The History of Black Studies by Abdul Alkalimat (Pluto Press 2021)Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 11:00am-12:30pm CT (online event)
Speakers:
-Abdul Alkalimat, Professor Emeritus, Department of African American Studies and School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-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
Book: The History of Black Studies by Abdul Alkalimat (Pluto Press 2021), available from
Pluto Books (30% discount with code ALKALIMAT30)
Sponsors:- Mortenson Center for International Library Programs
- Department of African American Studies
- School of Information Sciences
- Center for Advanced Studies
- Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy
- Center for African Studies
- Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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