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Academic Panels

Friday, June 24, 2022 • Online

SESSION I

10:00-11:15 Maroon Histories, Struggles, and Sovereignties

• Dr. Fran Botkin, Towson University, English Department
• Dr. Paul Youngquist, Professor of Distinction, English Department,
University of Colorado Boulder

“Situating the Jamaican Maroons in the Wider Struggle for Freedom in the Americas”
• Dr. Carrie Gibson, Independent Scholar

“Re-Imagining Maroon Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Economic Self Reliance”
• Sankofa Juba, Mwalimu (Mwa-Limu) Sankofa Coordinator of
Bese Saka Cultural Solutions Inc

“A New Currency for Jamaican Marronage”
• Dr. Isis Semaj-Hall, Literatures in English and Popular Culture,
University of the West Indies, Mona

SESSION II
11:15-11:30 Cultural performance

11:30-12:45 Maroons and Indigeneity in the Contemporary Context

“Legal Authorities Establishing Afro-Descendant Indigeneity”
• Dr. Marcus Goffe, Attorney at Law

"Expanding and Creating Afro-Indigenous and Indigenous Maroon Oral History
Projects: Decolonial Praxis and Cultural Activism”
• Lisa Betty, PhD Cand., Community Researcher, Bronx African American History Project
at Fordham University and
• Lucy Blanco, co-founder and lead singer of the Afri-Garifuna Jazz Ensemble,
Community Researcher, Bronx African American History Project at Fordham University

"Education and Repair: Teaching Maroon Histories in the US Context"
• Michael Becker, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Bates College

“Taino Peoples Self-Determination and Identities in the Contemporary Context”
• Erica Neeganagwedgin, Asst. Professor/Director of Indigenous Education,
Western University

12:45-1:00 Reading by Marcia B. Douglas, Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

SESSION III

1:00-1:30 Cultural performance

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