Fisk University’s Race Relations Institute Announces:

The First Annual Harambee Conference

“Toward a Solution: 

Increasing Awareness, Producing Justice”

April 13 – 15, 2007

Fisk University

Nashville, TN

For 65 years Fisk University’s Race Relations Institute has been one of the leading institutions facilitating racial dialogue, proactive programming, research and activism. We celebrate our legacy with this multidisciplinary conference. We are soliciting concept and research papers, panels, workshops, articles for inclusion in a forthcoming publication, and joint grant proposals. The theme for our inaugural year is “Toward a Solution: Increasing Awareness, Producing Justice,” as we are very interested in developing and implementing solution-oriented scholarship, programs, and publications.  The following categories are particular areas to be addressed:

• Culturally specific intervention strategies
• Research including diverse populations
• Educational and school-based issues and solution strategies
• Economic development models/analysis
• Political concepts/strategies
• Rites of passage/socialization processes
• Spirituality
• Academic achievement
• Ethical leadership
• Professional development
• Sankofa
• Community building
• Research with race, racial prejudice, and/or racism as a major variable