African Diaspora Research Coalition (ADRC) Conference This
daylong colloquium will feature presentations by UCLA
graduate students who are conducting African Diaspora
research and who wish to present their current thesis or
dissertation work, an exam, or an article they have
written to a group of committed scholars and students.
Primary participants will be members of the African
Diaspora Research Coalition.
Individuals who have participated in at least four
meetings over the course of the year will automatically
be accepted into the colloquium. If there is space
remaining, individuals who have not participated in the
ADRC will be permitted to submit papers fro review by
the ADRC and will be accepted accordingly.
The colloquium will also feature a roundtable of UCLA
professors who conduct African Diaspora research and who
will discuss the future of African Diaspora
scholarship.
The ADRC Colloquium will close with the presentation of
the Claudia Mitchell-Kernan Award to the most
exceptional graduate student essay presented at the
conference.
The winning student will present their paper at the
colloquium.
