On our 5th residency conference day we were treated to some great panel discussions on the area of transformation. The conference kicked off with a keynote from Dr. Alvin B. Tillery Jr. titled “The Long Shadow of the GI Bill: U.S. Social Policy and the Black-White SAT Gap”. Dr. Tillery is a assistant professor of political science at Rutgers and was asked to serve as our scholar in residence this term. A very interesting conversation followed that carried throughout the day. I enjoyed it.
The second Panel discussion that I attended was titled, “Communal Approaches to HIV/Aids”. Again we had a visiting scholar, Ray Jordan lead a great discussion about the beloed community and the Prophetic Response to the HIV/AIDS crisis among black women. Fellow colleague Owen Borda discussed a paper titled, “HIV Policy Shift: Individual Rights to Communitarian Goals and the Reshaping of AIDS Exceptionalism”. This was great! Finishing the discussion was Dr. Ledbetter, discussing her paper titled “Compassion Organizing Competence: A Case Study of the Masangane HIV/AIDS Project in South Africa”. She will be heading to South Africa on Thursday to present this paper at a conference next week.
I hope to get some posts from others detailing their experiences during the conference.
Stay tuned…
-j-
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