2013 NCOBPS Founders Student Symposium in Honor of Dr. Hanes Walton Jr.

Oakbrook, Illinois, 5:00-6:00pm

Selected Graduate Panelists:

Andrea Slater - University of California, Los Angeles

David B. Green, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

John Thomas III - University of Chicago 

The 44th Annual Meeting of theThe National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS): Black Power Reconceptualized: Black Activists, Black Intellectuals, and the Politics of Disparity

The 2013 National Conference of Black Political Scientists Founders Student Symposium is organized by the Symposium’s selection committee to bring exemplary graduate and undergraduate students together in a roundtable format with a panel of professors and conference attendees to share and discuss their community service and research interests. This provides students with a unique opportunity to get useful feedback from established and emergent scholars and the general audience in a supportive environment as they share their research interests and perspectives on Black politics and the future of the discipline.

The 2013 Roundtable topic addresses the following two questions:

1) What is the responsibility of young, emerging black scholars to the global black community? Should they work to empower people in the African Diaspora? Is there such a responsibility? Is there a need? If so, what does it look like in the 21st Century?

2) What is the significance of "on the ground” research? Is our work created in partnership with specific black communities for the purposes of social change in those struggling spaces?

Additionally, panelists can share their personal and scholarly insight with the NCOBPS at large. Recipients will receive a special certificate, monetary award (pending funding), and names will be added to the NCOBPS archival record. Interested applicants should forward their CV/resume and a 1-2 page application letter explaining how their academic background and research interests qualify them for the 2013 Founders Student Symposium award to Savannah Carroll at savannah.n.carroll@gmail.com by Friday, March 1, 2013.

 Mission Statement

In honor and recognition of distinguished NCOBPS scholars who have greatly contributed to political science and whose mentorship and legacy demonstrate our mission to "promote the political aspirations of people of African descent in the United States and throughout the world." This lecture series will provide an exchange scholarly forum for junior scholars, researchers, community activists and esteemed scholars in black politics. This student symposium is intended to encourage a scholarly showcase of  undergraduate and graduate students in NCOBPS in recognition of established senior, emeriti and posthumous scholars. Select students will be given the opportunity to reflect and present on various topics and themes relevant to ongoing scholarly work or community engagement during the annual NCOBPS meeting.

2013 Symposium

Selected Graduate Panelists:

Andrea Slater - University of California, Los Angeles

David B. Green, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

John Thomas III - University of Chicago 

2012 Symposium

2011 Symposium in honor of Dr. Melanie Njeri Jackson, Dr. Ronald Walters, Dr. Jeffrey M. Elliot

Selected Graduate Panelists:

Jaira Harrington, University of Chicago

Cherly Harris, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Oumar Ba, Ohio Universty

2010 Symposium in honor of Dr. Twiley Barker & Dr. Linda Faye Williams:

Selected Graduate Panelists:

Savannah Carroll, University of Massachusetts

Bryce Dixon, Brooklyn College, CUNY                                                                

 Ashley Reid, University of Michigan