Preliminary Draft Program

Philosophy Born of Struggle 2009 – 16th Annual Conference

Race, Religion, and Social Transformation

Friday, October 23, 2009 – Fayetteville State University, 1200 Murchison Rd., Fayetteville, NC 28301

Shaw Auditorium – SBE Building (beside Chesnutt Library)
Scheduled Events

8:30 AM Registration
African-Caribbean Students Association

9-9:50 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
FSU Chancellor or Provost, Everet Green, Leonard Harris, Blanche Radford-Curry

10-10:50 AM Keynote Address
John H. McClendon, III, “Plummeting from Paradise to Plantation: A God Centered Philosophy of History and the African American Experience”

11-11:50 AM Ethics and Social Transformation I
Joseph Osei, “United Methodist Women and Social Transformation: Is Talking to the Enemy Careless Ethics or Care Ethics?”
Richard Hall, “Samuel Hopkins and Slavery”

11:55 AM-12:55 PM Lunch

1-1:50 PM Politics and Social Transformation I
Zay Green, “The Power and the Glory: Christianity and the Perpetuation of the Caste System in America”
Douglas Ficek, “The Pitfalls of Petrification: Fanon and the Politics of Philosophical Archaelogy”

2-2:50 PM Politics and Social Transformation II
Steven Ferguson, “Hurricane Katrina Postmortem: Issues of Theodicy, Divine Racism, and Bourgeois Hegemony, a Materialist Philosophical Perspective”
Matthew McNaughton, “No Socialism, No Choice, No Freedom: A Necessary Re-Examination of Sovereignty and Independence”

3-3:50 PM Identity and Politics
Micki Nyman, “Gateways of Difference in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John”
Shannon Gibson, “Empowering African Americans: Politics or Economics?”

Saturday, October 24, 2009 – Fayetteville Technical Community College, 2201 Hull Rd. , Fayetteville, NC 28303

Multi-Purpose Room – Tony Rand Student Center
Scheduled Events

9:30-9:50 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
FTCC Administrator and Blanche Radford-Curry

10-10:50 AM Identity and Social Transformation
Lee A. McBride, III, “The Future of Racial Identities”
John Pascoe, “Marriage, Matriliny, and Matrices of Personhood”

11-11:50 AM Religion and Social Transformation
Gregory Rich, “Religion in The Secret Life of Bees”
Tommy J. Curry, “Birthed from Africa: The Role of African Civilization in the Reclamation of Racial Spirit”

12-1:30 PM Lunch

1:45-3:00 PM Ethics and Social Transformation II
Tom Smythe, “Advocating the Moral Point of View”
Greg Moses, “Jesus as a Race Leader”
Gregory Sadler, “By the Content of their Character: Christian Love and Virtue Ethics in Martin Luther King’s Writings”

3:10-5:00 PM Wrap-Up Session
William R. Jones, Everet Green, and Leonard Harris