Ent-Tech Atlanta - Day 2 (Centering 1526: Symposium & Imbongi - The Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit — Part 1)
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Day 2 Centering 1526: Symposium & ImbongiTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 - 9:25 AM–7:00 PMThe Campus of Morehouse College / Atlanta University Center830 Westview Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314
(The Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit — Part 2)
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On Thursday, Morehouse College will present Centering 1526: Symposium & Imbongi, a day of scholarship, cultural intelligence, and public dialogue examining 1526—and what changes when African and American histories are entered from a different starting point.
Convened by the Department of Africana Studies and History at Morehouse College, in collaboration with the Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit, the program is shaped by the scholarship of Dr. Samuel T. Livingston, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, and the developing work surrounding the forthcoming edited volume Centering 1526: The Gullah-Geechee Origins of an Africana National Imagination.
The project explores Africa and the African presence in the Americas; Gullah Geechee history and culture; diasporic liberation movements; and the significance of San Miguel de Gualdape and the events of 1526 across the last 500 years of Black history.
At the center of the day is a deceptively simple question:
What changes when we change the point from which we enter African and American histories?
Through student scholarship, panels, roundtables, and a culminating community-grounding session, Centering 1526 brings historical inquiry into direct conversation with questions of culture, sovereignty, land, memory, resistance, identity, and belonging.
11:00–11:50 AM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER— RON DAISE
Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel
Acclaimed author, educator, performer and Gullah Geechee cultural interpreter Ron Daise will deliver the day’s keynote address, providing a cultural and historical foundation for the scholarship and public conversations that follow.
Daise has spent decades preserving, interpreting and expanding public understanding of Gullah Geechee history, language, traditions and culture.
1:00–2:15 PM
CAMPBELL -WRIGHT HBCU GULLAH-GEECHEE STUDENT PANEL
Chairs: Gianna Burgess and Alyssa Amaker
The day begins with student scholar-activists engaging Gullah-Geechee culture through research and creative work. The panel will include student fellows whose work has taken them across the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor through the Campbell Wright Gullah-Geechee Fellowship Program.
2:25–3:40 PM
GULLAH-GEECHEE MEMORY WORK ROUNDTABLE
Chair: Dr. Corrie Claiborne
This roundtable explores Gullah-Geechee literature, memory work and art, considering the ways history is carried, interpreted and preserved through scholarship, creative expression and cultural practice.
Dr. Claiborne is an Associate Professor of Literature at Morehouse College and founder and co-director of the Mellon-funded Campbell Wright Gullah-Geechee Fellowship Program.
3:50–5:05 PM
KONGO-GULLAH LAND USE PROJECT PANEL
Chair: Dr. Samuel T. Livingston and Patricia Ndombe
The conversation turns to Kongo-Gullah land-use projects, examining relationships among land, cultural memory, African continuities, and the historical experiences of Gullah-Geechee communities.
Ndombe is an Africology doctoral student at Temple University and a board member of Friends of the Congo.
5:15–8:00 PM
AFRICAN DIASPORA IMBONGI — COMMUNITY GROUNDINGS SESSION
Chairs: Damani Aaquil and Myriam Dormer, co-founders of Deeply Rooted Press
The day culminates with an African Diaspora Imbongi, conceived as a Community Groundings Session that moves the conversation beyond the traditional panel format and into collective reflection, exchange and dialogue.
The public is invited to engage directly with scholars, cultural practitioners and one another—bringing the histories examined throughout the day into conversation with contemporary questions of identity, place, resistance, belonging and cultural memory.
And as the symposium looks back across five centuries, the closing conversation will also look forward:
What should our common goals be for the next 500 years?
AFRICANA INTELLIGENCE THROUGH SCHOLAR-ACTIVISM
Centering 1526 reflects a central purpose of the Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit: building cultural intelligence through deeper engagement with the histories, experiences, and frameworks that shape how communities understand themselves and one another.
Cinema is part of that inquiry, but not its limit. The Summit brings storytelling into conversation with scholarship, history, literature, technology, lived experience and cultural exchange. At Morehouse, that model takes an explicitly academic form—connecting rigorous historical inquiry with a wider public and international conversation about culture, narrative and power.
Read More: Centering 1526 and Reframing the American Historical Narrative
Additional scholars, panelists, locations, and program details will be announced as the symposium is finalized.
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MEDIA & PROGRAM INFORMATION
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festivaldirector@almafilmfestival.com
Alma Film Festival
Ent-Tech (Innovation & Discovery Expo)
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