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The 2025 Annual Black Studies Conference

When: October 15 - 16, 2025
Where: Memorial Union S4

Conference Program

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Time	Title	Location
9:05-10:15 am	Welcome/Remarks - 9-9:05 am Session 1 Immigration Restrictions and anti-Blackness - Chair Dr. Anna Fett Global Trial on Anti-Blackness and the Migration Industrial Complex Youri Encelotti Louis, Hergie Chevalier, Toni Eyssallenne, Marie Alexandra Michel, Tinashe Goronga, and Anne Marie Collins - Campaign Against Racism through Equal Health (Partial Zoom) Exploring the Anti-Immigrant Conundrum on the 21st Century France Ekanade Israel - Tshwane University of Technology Rakubu Kholofelo - Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa The Intersection of Islamophobia, Gender and Anti-Black Racism in America: Impacts on Muslim Immigrant Students Kabir Abdulkareem - Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa Dee Khosa - Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa	Memorial Union S4
10:30-11:45 am	Session 2 Black Immigrant Diasporic Community Building - Chair Dr. D. Dunkley "On the Backs of Blacks": Anti-Black Racism, AfroLatinxs, and Hemispheric Blackness Paul Joseph Lopez Oro- Bryn Mawr College African Immigrants in the Bronx: Community Building and Cultural Contributions Jane Kani Edwards - Fordham University No Welcome for Black Refugees: A Tale of Systemic and Institutional Anti-Black Racism Bernadette Ludwig - Western Connecticut University (Zoom)	Memorial Union S4
12-1 pm	Lunch
1-2:15 pm	Session 3 Decolonizing Black Immigration - Chair Laura Obubo, PhD Student Before Borders: The Globality of Black Indigeneity and the Phrenology of immigration Seshat Eumel Sahmedu – Georgia State University (Zoom) Wynter's Black Studies as Decolonial Praxis: An Educational Story about Education Sam Tecle - Toronto Metropolitan University	Memorial Union S4
2:30-3:45 pm	Session 4 Identity, Belonging, and Black Global Migration - Chair Dr. Cristina Mislan Afro-Latinx Content Creators on Race, Anti-immigration and Blackness in Mexico Monika Gosin- University of California, San Diego Religious Preferences and Public Attitudes: The Case of Haitian Asylum Denise Marsha Brown – University of Missouri	Memorial Union S4
3:45-5:30 pm	Session 5 Keynote - Dr. Regine O. Jackson	Memorial Union S4

Keynote Speaker

Regine O. Jackson - Morehouse College

Dr. Regine Jackson is a professor of sociology and dean of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts Division at Morehouse College.

She has received grants and awards from the American Sociological Association, Social Science Research Council, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Ford Foundation, Spencer Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Prior to coming to Morehouse, she served as Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives at Agnes Scott College. She also has had faculty leadership roles at Agnes Scott, including Sociology & Anthropology Department Chair, Faculty Coordinator of Global Learning, co-chairing a pandemic instructional planning task force, participating in a college-wide strategic planning committee, serving as an officer on the Faculty Executive Committee, and chairing the Campus Life Committee, as well as leadership appointments at Emory University.

With an undergraduate degree from Brown University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Dr. Jackson continues to be an active scholar in the areas of Haitian migration and diaspora, race and ethnicity, American immigration, spatial inequality, and global learning. Her work includes a book, Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora, with another on the way (Boston Haitians: Navigating Race, Place, and Belonging in a Majority-Minority City) under contract and numerous solo- and co-authored publications in journals and books. Dr. Jackson’s research is complemented by public scholarship, commentary, faculty development workshops and invited presentations that place her in high demand as a speaker.

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Time	Title	Location
9-10:15 am	Session 6 Exclusionary Immigration Policies and Anti-Black racism in Europe - Chair Abigail Williams, PhD Candidate Black American Soldiers, Italian Women, their Descendants, and Anti-Blackness in Postwar Italy Michael Limmer – University of Missouri How Local Black Migrant Struggles in Spain can Inform US Black Migration as a Decolonized Practice Elena Isabel Terán Ruiz, Anne Marrie Collins, Barbara Zelu, Daniel Acevedo Villegas - Campaign Against Racism through Equal Health (Zoom) "Victims of many Persecutors or Symbols of Political Failure?": European Exclusionary Rhetoric and Black Immigrants Abdelkader Cheref – Southern Illinois University	Memorial Union S4
10:30-11:45 am	Session 7 Evoking Storytelling as Diasporic Tellings - Chair Dr. Andrew Hoberek Evoking Story telling as Diasporic Tellings Dominic Hateka, Akin Oseni, Sandra Boateng, Vaughn W. M. Watson - Michigan State University (Zoom)	Memorial Union S4
12-1 pm	Lunch
1-2:15 pm	Session 8 Black Literary and Cultural Migrations - Chair Dr. Dorothy Atuhura Coming to America with Bob Marley Tinashe Mushakavanhu – University of Oxford Lost in Translation: Complicating Afro-politan Identity of Children of African Immigrants in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and Taiyet Selasi's Ghana Must Go Rebecca Amonor – Washington University of St. Louis	Memorial Union S4
2:30-3:45 pm	Session 9 Black Americans and Black Immigrants - Dr. Willie Mack "The Plantation is Everywhere": African American Solidarity with Haitian Refugees, 1978-1995 Naiya Edwards – Morgan State University (Zoom) Ethiopian Immigrants in Washington DC Beka Guluma - University of Maryland, College Park The Veil Reimagined: Du Boisian Double Consciousness and Contemporary African Immigrants' Identity in the United States Adeyemi Saheed Badewa – University of Pittsburgh Closing Remarks - 3:45-4:00 pm	Memorial Union S4