Reported in Technician. The keynote address will be delivered by the Princeton University Black Cultural Center. Panelists include free-standing structures from Harvard, Chicago, Yale, Cal-Berkeley and Michigan.
Attendees include “Black Studies, Community Colleges, Culture Centers, Ethnic Studies, Multiculture Centers, Student Affairs, Student Organizations” as well as administrators.
OK, OK, so I’m having a little fun with the nominal idea of a convention of centers (but that really is what the “Who Should Attend” list offers). Nell Painter from Princeton will be the keynote speaker. I do find some of the panels interesting for various reasons. “Centering Womanism in Black Culture Centers,” for example. What is that? And the apparent friction between “Multiculture Centers and Black Culture.” Then there’s the ironic “Centering Black Culture in Campus Integration Efforts.”