The Central Pennsylvania Consortium, founded in 1968, comprises Dickinson, Gettysburg and Franklin & Marshall Colleges. The consortium promotes institutional collaboration among the three schools and offers a wide range of academic and cultural programs for students, faculty, administrators, as well as residents in the surrounding communities.

The mission of the CPC is to assure and advance the general quality and the intellectual vitality of the member colleges.  

• Through an annual Africana Studies Conference, the CPC colleges explore the multifaceted and interrelated histories, cultures, and intellectual contributions of Africans and peoples of African origin on the continent and throughout the Diaspora.
• The conferences seek to bring together scholars, visual and performing artists, and political activists who are critically engaged in the study and production of Black identity and/or Black communities.

The 2013 Central Pennsylvania Consortium Conference

Black Emancipations: Commemorating "A New Birth of Freedom” in Africa & the African Diaspora

Gettysburg College

November 15 & 16

The 2013 CPC Africana Studies conference will contribute to and expand the intellectual discourse of sesquicentennial commemorations by prompting scholars from different disciplines to examine the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address's "new birth of freedom," and the American Civil War in a broad spatial and temporal context. 

Conference participants will interrogate the origins, processes, and outcomes of black liberation movements that have emerged and continue to emerge from civil wars and conflict in Africa and the African Diaspora.  The conference will contribute to campus-wide diversity discussions and initiatives by prompting students, faculty, and administrators to consider the American Civil War and sesquicentennial events through a broad interdisciplinary context.  The Civil War Era Studies program at Gettysburg College exemplifies how study of the American Civil War can break out of traditional confines.  The conference uses the CWES approach as a springboard to draw students from different disciplines at Gettysburg College and the CPC schools into an environment in which they will examine black strategies for liberation amid conflict and the impact of emancipation struggles on gender, language, politics, and economics.

 

Dr. Angela Davis

Keynote Speaker

Nov. 16th

 

 

 

 

 

Additional details on the panels are forthcoming.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

 

 

 

 

 

The 2011 CPC Conference, 

Friday-Saturday, April 8-9, 2011
Barshinger Life Sciences & Philosophy Building, Franklin & Marshall College

"Whose Culture, Whose Development?  Science, Culture & Development in Africa and Beyond"

Friday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Welcome and introduction to conference

Saturday, April 9, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Conference proceedings.  Speakers include:

• Mwangi Githinji, Assistant Professor of Economics, Amherst College
• Holly Hanson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African-American Studies, Mount Holyoke College
• Jesse Casler, Director of Administration and Special Projects, Hope International

Contact:  Michael Penn, Professor of Psychology and Program Chair of Africana Studies, Franklin & Marshall College (michael.penn@fandm.edu)