Conferences and Events
Spring 2013
BAAHP 10th Anniversary Conference
Saturday, April 6: 8:30am-5:15pm in Keating 1, Lecture Hall, Rose Hill Campus
Please join us for a conference commemorating the 10th anniversary of Fordham's Bronx African American History Project. Featuring presentations from leading historians, journalists, educators, and community organizers, the symposium will showcase research and activism related to and emanating from the Bronx African American History Project. Participants include: Joan Morgan, author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip Hop Feminist, award-winning journalist, and cultural critic; Brian Purnell, assistant professor of Africana Studies, Bowdoin University; Mamadou Niang, Managing Director, NextMedia; Nancy Biberman, founder and president, WHEDco; Sheikh Moussa Drammeh, founder, African Rapid Relief Mobilization; Natasha Lightfoot, assistant professor of history, Columbia University. With remarks from special, honored guests: Joseph M. McShane, S.J., President, Fordham University; Helen D. Foster, Council Member, District 16, Bronx, NY.
Sponsors: The New York City Council, The Bronx Music Heritage Center/WHEDco.Admission is free and open to the public. RSVP is required. To RSVP visit: http://baahpconference.eventbrite.com
BAAHP 10th Anniversary Concert & Film Screening
Saturday, April 6: 5:30-11:30pm in McGinley Student Center, Rose Hill Campus
Please join us for musical performances commemorating the 10th anniversary of Fordham's Bronx African American History Project. National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, Jimmy Owens and his band will perform the original composition, "Bronx Suite." The evening will also include a documentary film screening, live hip hop performances, and a DJ dance party! Featured performances include: At 5:30pm, "I Love the Bronx: The Musical Life of Dr. Valarie Capers," a rough-cut documentary about the acclaimed Bronx jazz pianist, directed by Dawn Russell; Bronx hip hop artists, Circa 95 and Rebel Diaz; DJ Illinoiz and DJ Charlie Hustle.Sponsors: Travis Viola and the Viola Family, The New York City Council, The Bronx Music Heritage Center/WHEDco.
Admission is free and open to the public. RSVP is required. To RSVP visit: http://theconcertbaahp10thanniversary.eventbrite.com For more information, contact Dr. Mark Naison: naison@fordham.edu or visit: www.fordham.edu/baahp
The Contradictions of Fair Hope — Film Screening and Talk Back, Friday, March 8th, 2013
Screening of the award winning documentary, The Contradictions of Fair Hope, which traces the gradual loss of tradition in one of the last remaining African American benevolent societies known as The Fair Hope Benevolent Society in Uniontown, Alabama. Executive produced by Golden Globe and Emmy winning actress, S. Epatha Merkerson, and narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this gripping film traces the contradictions of progress, Black community identity, and economic independence in a rural African American community. To be followed by a Q&A with executive producers, S. Epatha Merkerson and Rockell Metcalf. Download the program flyer.
10th Anniversary Celebration & Conference of the Bronx African American History Project's (BAAHP), April 6, 2013 - The Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP) of Fordham University will celebrate its 10th anniversary on Saturday, April 6, 2013.
Televising the Revolution: Critical Media and the Public with Dr. Tukufu Zuberi from the PBS series, The History Detectives, Friday, April 12th 2013 Join Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, former chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Pennsylvania and current host of the popular PBS program, The History Detectives, for a dynamic discussion on the connections between various media platforms, public scholarship and community engagement. Students, faculty and community members will find the creative interactive format of this event thought (and action) provoking! (Program Details TBA)
Showing Off: Performance Studies and Deconstructing Blackness in the 21st Century, April 2013 Innovative, boundary-pushing performances by dancers, playwrights and composers will be interspersed with commentary from leading performance studies scholars in the field. The performances and roundtable discussion will be followed by dialogue with the audience. (Program Details TBA)
