IGGAD 2024: Speaking with an Unbroken Tongue
Atlantic Beach | Coastal Carolina University | Conway, SC
THURSDAY, Feb. 22
Atlantic Beach
10 a.m. - 3 p.m. | Tours, Workshops, and Screenings
Supporters of the Tyson Ancestral Restrictions on the DEEDs (STARD)
Limited shuttle service is available to Atlantic Beach from the conference hotel (Fairfield Inn and Suites). Please contact Zenobia Harper to reserve your spot on the shuttle.
Starting and Ending Location for Activities
Atlantic Beach Community Center
1010 32nd Ave, Atlantic Beach, SC 29582
5 - 6 p.m. | Keynote: Still Tongue Mek ah Wise Head (Johnson Auditorium, Wall Building, Coastal Carolina University)
Veronica Gerald
Founding Director, Charles Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, English, Coastal Carolina University
Gullah Geechee Scholar
Charter Commissioner, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
6 - 8 p.m. | Opening Reception (Alford Ballroom, Atheneum Hall, Coastal Carolina University Campus)
FRIDAY, Feb. 23 | Coastal Carolina University
8:45 - 10:30 a.m. | Registration and Check-In Table Open (Edwards Lobby)
8:45 - 9:45 a.m. | Breakfast (Edwards Courtyard)
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. (on loop) | Pre-Recorded Lighting Talks (Edwards 101)
Blues Bodies and Spoken Soul: Black Somatics as a Site for Critical Language Awareness
Ashani Coviello
Language as Resistance
Mariella Jones
Adaptive water governance, resilience building or transformation?
Lynette de Silva
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Want to Learn About Self Publishing? (Alford Ballroom, Atheneum Hall)
Ron Daise
10 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions
Johnson Auditorium
Antiblackness, the Negro Writer’s Project, and Its Non-Effect on the Creation of Black Authors and Texts for Public Consumption
Raven M. Gadsden-Washington
Edwards 248
“For Your Work Shall Be Rewarded”: Stories in Health and Healing from The Gullah Church Nurses Association
Dr. Ebony Allen Toussaint
Edwards 256
Reflections of a Gullah Geechee Woman’s Southern Journey
Dr. Sandra Lesibu
Edwards 253
Movement, Memory, and Justice
Dr. Corrie Claiborne and Students, Morehouse College
10:45 - 11:15 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions
Johnson Auditorium
How It Feels to be International Me: Examining Claude McKay’s Memoirs through a Transnational Lens
Dr. Matthew Miller
Edwards 248
The South in Me
Sara Makeba Daise
Edwards 256
Reflections of a Gullah Geechee Woman’s Southern Journey
Dr. Sandra Lesibu
Edwards 253
Movement, Memory, and Justice
Dr. Corrie Claiborne and Students, Morehouse College
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
Johnson Auditorium
Student Research Paper Contest Winner Presentations
Moderator: Joseph Oestreich, Associate Dean, Edwards College
Edwards 248
Black Revolution on the Sea Islands
Frances O’Shaughnessy
Edwards 256
Language Contact and Change Among Speakers of African American English and Gullah Geechee in Southeast Georgia
Dr. Simanique Moody
Edwards 253
Preserving and Protecting Sacred Sites in the Gullah Geechee Diaspora
Dr. Tiffany A. Player, Georgia State University
Dr. Ras Michael Brown, Georgia State University
Chad Keller, MHP, Georgia State University
Natasha Washington, Georgia State University
Debra Dozier-Coulter, Georgia State University
12 p.m. - 1 p.m. | Boxed Lunch Pickup
Please do not eat lunch in the concurrent sessions.
12:30 - 1 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
Johnson Auditorium
Gullah as a Diaspora: The Transformation of Geechee to Afro-Seminole Creole
Dr. Anthony Dixon
Edwards 248
Building a Digital Praise House: Using the Africana Digital Humanities as A Response and Reclamation
Dr. Corrie Claiborne
Dr. Samuel T. Livingston
1:15 - 2 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
Johnson Auditorium
King Without A Crown: The Intersection of Language, Lineage & Liberation For First Gen African-Americans In the Black South
Afumbom Okosun, BS, MS
Edwards 248
Building a Digital Praise House: Using the Africana Digital Humanities as A Response and Reclamation
Dr. Corrie Claiborne
Dr. Samuel T. Livingston
Edwards 256
Learning in the Lowcountry: The Gullah Experience at Metropolitan State University of Denver
Dr. Judy Strathearn
2 - 3:30 p.m. | Coffee Break (Edwards Courtyard)
2:15 p.m. - 3 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
Johnson Auditorium
The Pedagogical Echo of Septima Clark
Benjamin Schwartz
Edwards 248
The Language: History, Related Creoles, and Future Prospects
Amadu Massally
Dr. Emory Campbell
Dr. Ian Hancock
Anita Singleton-Prather
Akindele Decker
Victoria Smallsa
Edwards 256
Soundings: The Battle for the Soul of the Spirituals on the Gullah Geechee Coast
Dr. Kendra Hamilton
3:15 - 3:45 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
Johnson Auditorium
Building(s) with Memory: Reflecting on the 2023 Johns Island Preservation Field School
Amalia Leifeste
Jon Marcoux
Georgette Mayo
Patricia Mallet
Eric Grant
Brittney Washington
Ernest Parks
Indira Lessington
Chelsea Gaillard
Edwards 248
The Language: History Related Creoles and Future Prospects
Amadu Massally
Dr. Emory Campbell
Dr. Ian Hancock
Anita Singleton-Prather
Akindele Decker
Victoria Smalls
Edwards 256
Librarianship Exemplar: Julie Varner Hunter, A South Carolina Gullah Gem
Dr. Ramona La Roche
4 - 5 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions
Johnson Auditorium
Beyond Words: Championing Cultural Continuity through Mother Tongue Literacy
Dr. Regina Ciphrah
Bethlene Ferdinand, M.Ed
Edwards 256
Librarianship Exemplar: Julie Varner Hunter, A South Carolina Gullah Gem
Dr. Ramona La Roche
6 - 8 p.m. | Friday Evening Meet and Greet (Allen Ballroom, Singleton Building)
SATURDAY, Feb. 24 | Historic Downtown Conway
Town Green (200 Laurel St.)
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. | Food Vendors
Conway Visitors Center - 5th and Main (428 Main St.)
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. | Craft Vendors
Horry County Museum Auditorium - 805 Main St.
10 a.m. | Opening Ceremonies, Horry County Museum
Welcome
State of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
11 - 11:45 a.m. | The Gullah Geechee Black Seminole Song Tradition
Dr. Eric Crawford
12 - 12:45 p.m. | The Spectacle of Blackness: Creole Voicing vs. Folk Authenticity in Porgy and Bess
Dr. Kendra Hamilton
1 - 1:45 p.m. | Seeking / Soaring: Gullah Resilience Songs
Tendaji Bailey
2 - 2:45 p.m. | Hispanic Heritage: Bomba Then and Now Discovering and Understanding the Afro Puerto Rican Diasporic Connections Through Communication, Music, and Dance
Dr. Anthony Sanchez
3 - 3:45 p.m. | Kumbaya Ring Shout
Griffin Lotson
4 - 5 p.m. | Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters and Hispanic Heritage Performance
Horry County Museum Classroom - 805 Main St. Second Floor.
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Gullah Dollmaking and Jewelry Making Workshop
1 - 2:30 p.m. | Gullah Dollmaking and Jewelry Making Workshop
All Day | Conversations about Colonoware: Discussions of Foodways and the Materiality of Daily Life Across the Colonial-Period Lowcountry
Corey Sattes
Horry County Library Classroom - 801 Main Street, Second Floor
11 - 11:45 p.m. | Empowering Voices: Co-Creating the Future of Culturally Sustaining STEM
Dr. Regina Ciphrah
12 - 12:45 p.m. | Language Commons Workshop
Amira Hanafi
1 - 1:45 p.m. | Ritual, Rhythm, and Rhetoric: The Language of Memory in the Gullah Community
Robert Stephens
2 - 2:45 p.m. | Wuh Mek Oonuh Gullah
Amadu Massally
3 - 3:45 p.m. | Johnson C. Smith University’s Culturally Responsive Framework to Engage African American Undergraduate Students in Sustainability and Environmental Sciences
Dr. Mark Dugo
The Hut, First United Methodist Church - 1001 5th Ave
11 - 11:30 a.m. | Whittemore Racepath Historical Society
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Sheila Learns About Gullah Culture
Astrid Becker
12:45 -1:30 p.m. | Panel Discussion
I Am Because of Them
Glander Pressley
Da Gullah Flag: A Symbol of Culture, Identity, and Community
Akua Page
Historic Brattonsville
Dr. Lisa Bratton
Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist Church - 1101 5th Ave.
11 - 11:45 a.m. | Gullah Strength, Perseverance, and Persistence
Luana Sellers
2 - 2:45 p.m. | Blue Hand Mojo and Beyond Gullah Geechee Culture in Comic Books
Dr. Ebony Allen Toussaint
Bryan House, Horry County Historical Society - 606 Main St.
11 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | The Black Pearl: The Reading of a Commissioned Play
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Panel Discussion
Hidden Diaspora: A Study of Black Contemporary Artists in Spain
Kay Creammer
Recovering the Oblivion in Cachita: Erased Slavery (2020) by Álvaro Begines
Dr. Alfonso Bartolomé
12:45 - 1:15 p.m. | Headwrap Demonstration
Kim Clora
1:30 - 2 p.m. | The Black Pearl: The Reading of a Commissioned Play
Written by Cynthia Grace Robinson
Directed by Cezar Williams
Read by Coastal Carolina University Theatre Students
