"Sounding Blackness: Some Notes on Race, Poetry and Classical Music" – Tsitsi Jaji, Associate Professor of English

“What’s black in sub-Saharan Africa?” – Stephen W. Smith, Professor of the Practice of African & African American Studies

"The Salience of Global Blackness: a Southern Africanist Perspective" – Karin Shapiro, Associate Professor of the Practice of African & African American Studies

"Navigating the Complex Intersections of Biological and Sociocultural Notions of Blackness" Charmaine DM Royal, Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and Biology, Director, Center on Genomics, Race, Identity, Difference (GRID)