Revisiting Garveyism: A Symposium

As the largest and most extensive movement for the liberation of African descended people in the world, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) has ignited generations of scholarship about Marcus Garvey, Garveyism, the Pan-Africanism. Revisiting Garveyism brings together scholars who have worked on Garveyism and movements that were influenced and inspired by it. Aside from reflecting on major scholarship on black radicalism, Garveyism and the often neglected yet vital contributions of women to the UNIA, the symposium will focus on recent scholarship on Garveyism while highlighting the significance of the Robert A. Hill Papers to this ongoing work. Acquired by the John Hope Franklin Research Center in 2015 the Robert A. Hill Papers hold an extensive body of records about Marcus Garvey and the (UNIA). The speakers in the symposium will include Winston James (UC Irvine), Natanya Duncan (Queens College City University of New York), Adom Getachew (University of Chicago) and Henry Dee (Northumbria University). Date: Mon., Feb. 2, 12:00pm-4:45pm EST Location: Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C105, Ahmadieh Lecture Hall Free lunch for participants (served from 11:00am-12:00pm) RSVP for in-person event: duke.is/garveyism Register for Zoom option: duke.is/garveyism-zoom Symposium Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Arrivals and Lunch Location: Catered @ Ahmadieh Lecture Hall 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM: Opening Remarks Welcome Message: Khwezi Mkhize & Sarah Balakrishnan A Note on the Robert A. Hill Papers: John Gartrell 12:30 PM - 13:20 PM: An Efficient Womanhood Speaker: Natanya Duncan 13:20 PM- 13:30 PM: Tea Break 13:30 PM - 14:20 PM: Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia Speaker: Winston James 14:20 PM - 14:30 PM: Tea Break 14:30 PM - 15:20 PM: Militant Migrants Speaker: Henry Dee 15:20 PM - 15:30 PM: Tea Break 15:30 PM - 16: 30 PM: The Garveyite Art of Eloquence Speaker: Adom Getachew 16: 30 PM - 16:45 PM: Closing Remarks 17:30 PM - 19:00 PM: (A Related Event in Classroom Building 229) Atlantic Worlds Workshop with Adam Ewing: "The Other Pan-Africanism: Kobina Sekyi and the Politics of Refusal in Colonial-Era Ghana"