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Watch the BCI Event Live
- Posted by: rphall
- Category: BCI Contest Events
The 2018 Beloved Community Initiative Humanities Summit (from 1:30-5:00pm on Tuesday, Nov 27) can now be watched live via Facebook and Zoom.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/184681032460304/
The event will feature the following sessions:
1:30 – 2:45 PM: The History of the Civil Rights Movement through the Lens of the Winning Essays and the Ancestors
- Panel host: Prof. Sylvester Johnson (Director of the VT Center for Humanities)
- Panel members: Essay Contest Winners, Dr. Virgil Wood (Church Leader, Educator, and Civil Rights Activist), and Prof. Corey Walker (VUU Vice President, Dean and Professor of Religion and Society)
3:00 – 4:45 PM: Strategies to Overcome Structural Forms of Inequality to Create Systems of Economic and Social Justice
- Panel host: Dr. Ralph Hall (Associate Professor, SPIA)
- Panel members: Afira Devries (President & CEO, United Way of Roanoke Valley), Dr. Owen Cardwell (Distinguished Chair of Education, University of Lynchburg), Prof. Corey Walker, and Dr. Virgil Wood
4:45 – 5:00 PM: Special Announcement (by Rachel Weaver, Assistant Professor, Creative Technologies, School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech)
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