Thursday, February 25, 2021
1:00 - 2:30 PM


Featured Undergraduate Student Panelists:  
Tatyana Brown (NYU Abu Dhabi)      
Eric Hart (NYU Tisch School of the Arts and NYU Stern School of Business)
Marvelous Maeze (NYU College of Arts & Sciences)  
 
With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Maryland’s African American Studies Department, the 2020-21 research initiative, "Race/Ethnicity and Gender Identity in a Shifting Cultural and Racial Climate: African/Black Diaspora Academic and Public Discourse," presents a virtual event, “Student Perspectives: Conversations in African/Black Identity,” co-hosted with New York University.
The undergraduate panelists are a select multi-disciplinary cohort of students with personal and academic interests in the research seminar’s central question: 

How are nationality and the specifics of distinctly diverse ethnicities and gender formations reshaping the framing of identity among first- and second-generation African immigrants and in their relationships with native-born U.S. African American populations in the 21st century?  

Each student will offer a ten-minute presentation on the seminar themes informed by coursework, research, and campus involvement.  In the second portion of the event, participants will respond to audience Q&A, moderated by NYU doctoral student at the Institute of Fine Arts, Summer Sloane-Britt.  Dr. Mary Osirim, Mellon Diaspora Seminar participant and professor of Sociology at Bryn Mawr College, will offer discussion reflections and closing remarks.


This event is virtual and open to the public. RSVP below to receive the Zoom registration link.