James de Jongh, Director IRADAC JdeJongh@ccny.cuny.edu	Samuel E. Farrell, Director CAAN samf@lagcc.cuny.edu
IRADAC-CAAN, Room 7114, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 IRADAC-CAAN, Y Building #307, The City College, New York, NY 10031 http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/iradac/index.htm

WORK IN PROGRESS AT CUNY ON THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

The various campuses of the City University boast an unusually large cohort of individual artists and scholars in the humanities, arts, and sciences addressing significant issues involving peoples of African descent in the African Diaspora. Work in Progress at CUNY on the African Diaspora: An Interdisciplinary Conference, cosponsored by the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) and the CUNY African American Network (CAAN), has been held biennially to showcase their work since the first conference in 1998. The 3rd Conference will be held at the Graduate Center at 365 Fifth Avenue, on Friday, November 15, 2002, from 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m..

The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) was founded jointly by The City College of New York (CCNY) and The Graduate Center (GC) of The City University of New York to strengthen the University's capacity to address the African presence in the Americas through scholarly research and public programs. Its mission is to foster understanding and critical interpretation of the history, development, conditions, status, and cultures of the diverse peoples of African descent living in the various societies of the Western Hemisphere. James L. de Jongh (The City College and the Graduate Center) is IRADAC’s director. The CUNY African-American Network (CAAN) is an organization advocating for black faculty and staff at the City University of New York. Over the last decade, CAAN has voiced strong support for Black Studies, SEEK, College Discovery, Affirmative Action, and Open Admission by sponsoring lecture series, town meetings, luncheons, receptions and Kwanzaa celebrations. Samuel E. Farrell II is CAAN’s president.peoples of African descent living in the various societies of the Western Hemisphere. James L. de Jongh (The City College and the Graduate Center) is IRADAC’s director. The CUNY African-American Network (CAAN) is an organization advocating for black faculty and staff at the City University of New York. Over the last decade, CAAN has voiced strong support for Black Studies, SEEK, College Discovery, Affirmative Action, and Open Admission by sponsoring lecture series, town meetings, luncheons, receptions and Kwanzaa celebrations. Samuel E. Farrell II is CAAN’s president.

Some three dozen academic papers are presented in a variety of disciplines at each conference, and the proceedings are published subsequently. This year’s presentations will include: New Salem Plantation: Continuing Archaeological Investigations into African Captivity on an 18th Century Plantation in Connecticut; Black Infant Mortality; “Lynchland, That’s Maryland:” The Baltimore Afro American, and the Maryland Anti-Lynching Movement, 1931-1935; Cruelty in the Congo Country: Booker T. Washington and the Congo Reform Association; Psychological Approaches to the Study of Third World/Caribbean Foreign Policy; Diasporic Rites, Rhetoric and Regalia: Language and Representation in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Monarch Lodge 45 Harlem, USA, 1907-1997; Demographics and the Changing Nature of Power in New York City; The African Ethiopian Presence in Ancient Greece and Rome; and Samuel Beckett and Minstrelsy.
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