BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:We are excited to launch the Pan African Movie Series\, a platf orm for conversation and dialogue examining the global Black Cinema experie nce using different lenses and audiences. This will be an interactive serie s consisting of virtual panels with OHIO alumni\, students\, faculty and ot her relevant authorities on the Black movie experiences. To kick off the se ries\, join us for a discussion of the movie “Coming to America.”\n\n \n\nP anelists:\n\n \n\nDr. K. Yawa Agbemabiese\nDr. K. Yawa Agbemabiese is Assis tant Professor\, Exceptional Education and Global Social Sciences\, Bard Hi gh School Early College\, DC. She serves as the Program Chair\, Global Soci al Sciences\, Bard Early College Networks\, and is also Faculty Associate\, Institute of Writing and Thinking\, Bard College. She is the founder of th e Charles A. and Norma J. Grooms Education Foundation\, and the Founder of Dunenyo Education Center\, Abor\, Volta Region of Ghana\, West Africa.\n\n \n\nVanessa Bell Calloway\nVanessa has earned eight NAACP Image Award nomin ations. She won the NAACP Theater Award for Best Actress for her role as Zo ra Neale Hurston in her one-woman critically-acclaimed play “Letters From Z ora”. Vanessa was invited to become a 2018 member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for her contribution to the entertainment indust ry. She reprised her role as Princess Imani Izzi in the soon to be released “Coming To America 2." Calloway is currently starring in Bounce TV’s one-h our hit-drama “Saint & Sinners\,” as the matriarch Lady Ella now in its fif th season. She directed a few of the episodes as well and just completed di recting a movie short for BET HER health initiative\, “A Long Look In The M irror\,” which will be seen later this year.\n\n \n\nYaphet Jackman\nYaphet Jackman is a Brooklyn born\, Guyanese bred multifaceted creative with a pa ssion to learn\, laugh & live. Coupled with 20 years of experience in the m edia and television industry across the Caribbean and the US\, he's worked his way up from a part-time camera operator to a budding Cinematographer/Di rector currently immersing himself in the U.S. film industry.\n\n \n\nJoe ' Jody' Williams\nJody's expertise behind the camera began as a film loader f resh out of film school on the movie Telling Lies in America. Throughout th e years he moved up the ranks from camera assistant to operator to director of photography on one of FOX’s all-time top rated shows\, Empire. His late st work Coming 2 America\, for Paramount Pictures\, can be seen on Amazon t his Christmas.\n\n \n\n \n\nModerator: \n\n \n\nDr. Akil Houston\nAkil Hous ton\, PhD.\, is an associate professor of Cultural and Media Studies in the Department of African American Studies at Ohio University. He teaches cour ses on African American Education\, African American Media\, Afrofutrusim\, Pedagogy of Malcolm X\, and the popular Hip Hop history\, culture\, and po litics class. Dr. Houston’s research areas include African American Studie s\, Educational Philosophy\, Africana Womanism and Black Feminism(s)\, Cine ma Studies\, Cultural Studies\, and Hip Hop Culture.\n\n \n\n \n\nYou will receive a confirmation email upon registration that will include details on how to join this virtual event.\n\n \n\nIf you have any questions\, please email Bose Maposa at maposa@ohio.edu. DTEND:20201203T183000Z DTSTAMP:20240921T112948Z DTSTART:20201203T170000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Pan African Movie Series - Coming to America UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_35149412071109 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/pan_african_movie_series_-_coming_to_am erica END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR