In-Person: On the Legacies of Black Creative Arts / Spirit of the Ancestors

10am | Ancestral Spirits from the African Diaspora 

Moderator - Carter Mathes: Associate Professor, Department of English / Director, Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, author of Imagine the Sound. 

12:30pm | Spirit Speaks through History and Present in Black Improvised Arts

Moderator - Jermaine Ross Allam: Professor, Union Theological Seminary—Social Ethics and Political Theology. Director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Center for Repair of Historical Harms. Recipient of the Union Theological "Spirit of United" alum award 

3pm | Convergence Roundtable: Improvising the Future Together

Through honoring our spirituality and the ancestors and visionaries who laid the way, we come together to find healing paths forward. This roundtable brings together members of the first two panels for a free flowing conversation and exchange of ideas.