Tuesday, May 20th, 2025

Islam, Art, and Pan-Africanism

Amadou Kane Sy (Galerie Yalla Yanna, Dakar), Muhsana Ali (Galerie Yalla Yanna, Dakar), Laylah Amatullah Barrayn (Rutgers University-Newark), Serigne Madzoo (RBS Crew / AeroSoul, Dakar)

  • Moderator: Saquib Usman (University of Hawaiʻi - Mānoa)

Islam, Politics and Black Liberation

Khalid Alexander (Pillars of the Community, San Diego), Sohail Daulatzai (University of California-Irvine), Junaid Rana (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Korka Sall (University of Minnesota / WARC-Dakar)

  • Moderator: Lamin Manneh (University of London)

Mapping Malcolm (Book Talk with Najha Zigbi-Johnson)

  • Moderator: Su’ad Abdul Khabeer (University of Michigan)

Teaching Malcolm X

Sharif El-Mekki (Center for Black Educator Development), Iman AbdoulKarim (Yale University), Rebecca Hankins (Texas A&M University), Wendell Hassan Marsh (Rutgers University-Newark)

  • Moderator 1: Aminah Al-Deen (Black American Muslim Internationalism Project)

  • Moderator 2: Youssef Carter (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)