02Three-Day Symposium

Afrikan & Caribbean Indigenous Knowledge

June 9 – 11, 2026

All Symposia

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Registration

9:00 am – 9:30 am

Welcome

9:30 am – 11:15 am

Session 1 —Philosophically grounding ideas on western and indigenous knowledge

Chair · Dr. Roxanne Burton

Presenter · Professor Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo

Presenter · Dr. Deryck Murray

11:30 am – 1:15 pm

Session 2 —Exploring Indigenous Knowledge in Colombia

Presenter · Ignacio Barrera Kelly

Presenter · Fanny Regina Howard Newball, M.A., M.Ed.

1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

Break

2:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Roundtable —Ethnopharmacology

Productive connections between African and Caribbean indigenous knowledge and Ethnopharmacology

Chair · Dr. Anthony Richards

Presenter · Dr. Sonia Peter

Presenter · Dr. Damian Cohall

9:30 am – 11:15 am

Session 1 —Plants in Action: From folk medicine to spiritual potency

Presenter · Dr. Anthony Richards

11:30 am – 1:15 pm

Session 2 —Marijuana: A site where indigenous knowledge confronts western science and state power

Presenter · Dr. Michael Barnett

Presenter · Dr. Machel Emanuel

1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

Break

2:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Roundtable —Understanding the value of indigenous knowledge and the cost of its colonial destruction

Presenter · Mahmood Patel

9:30 am – 11:15 am

Session 1 —An exploration of African metaphysics

Presenter · Nana Yaw Wi Asamoah Boadi

11:30 am – 1:15 pm

Session 2 —Deploying Systems of Divination to Access Knowledge

Presenter · Dr. Yanique Hume

1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

Break

2:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Roundtable —The Value and Future of African and Caribbean Indigenous Knowledge

Presenter · Dr. Seth Tweneboah

Presenter · Dr. John Hunte

Presenter · Dr. Editha (Nancy) Fergusson-Jacobs

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June 12 – Celebrating Cuffie: Barbados' early freedom fighter.