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Dr.
Na’im Akbar |
Dr. Na’im
Akbar, Psychologist
“What Will Our Legacy Be?”
Thursday, October 4
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Dr. Na’im Akbar has
been acclaimed by Essence Magazine as “one of the world’s preeminent psychologists
and a pioneer in the development of an African-centered approach in modern psychology.”
Akbar was associate professor at Norfolk State University
and Chairman of the Morehouse College Psychology Department. Currently he is on the faculty in the
Department of Psychology at Florida State University
in Tallahassee, Fla. He has served on the boards of directors
of a variety of civic and professional organizations, including several terms
on the Board of the National Association of Black Psychologists, to which he was
elected president in 1987. Also he has
served on the editorial board of the Journal of Black Studies and
for eight years was the associate editor of the Journal of Black Psychology.
Akbar is a
graduate of the University
of Michigan, with both
undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology and has received many honors
for his progressive and landmark contributions to his specialized studies of
the psychology of the African American. Among these are the Annual Member Award and recognition
as a Distinguished Black Psychologist by the National Association of Black Psychologists for his
outstanding scholarship and research in African Psychology.
The Mayors
of Atlantic City, N.J.; Cleveland, Ohio; Jackson, Miss. and Cincinnati,
Ohio have declared Na’im Akbar Days
in recognition of his accomplishments. In addition, Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania and Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) have awarded him honorary Doctorates
of Humane Letters. Akbar has been enthusiastically received at more than 900
colleges, universities, conferences and symposia throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. In 1995 he was enstooled
as a “Development Chief” at Abono Lakeside Village
near Kumasi, Ghana.
His books include
Akbar Papers in African Psychology (2003), Breaking
the Chains of Psychological Slavery (1996), The Community of Self (1985),
Visions for Black Men (1992), Know Thyself (1999), as well as numerous scholarly papers and
articles. He has been interviewed on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Tony Brown’s
Journal, The Geraldo Show and a wide variety of
other national and local television programs. Significant articles about him
have appeared in Essence,
The Washington Post, Jet and a
large number of newspapers. As a recipient of scores of awards,
Akbar is recognized as one of the great thinkers and orators of our time.
He is the
proud father of three successful and committed adult children and the
grandfather of two grandchildren.
 
 
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Lyceum Series
Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 Calendar
Click on speaker's name for more information.
Fall 2007
Thursday, September 6 — Byron Pitts, CBS Reporter
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 26 — Harriet Washington, Editor
and Medical Ethicist
“Medical Apartheid”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 4 — Dr. Na’im Akbar, Psychologist
“What Will Our Legacy Be?”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 24 — Beatrice Thompson,
News Anchor and Talk Show Host
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 1 — Lyceum Program in
Collaboration with the JCSU Violence
Prevention Coalition
Tony Porter, Educator and Activist
“A Call To Men”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 14 — Dr. Brian Johnson,
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
“W.E.B. Du Bois, Becoming Agnostic”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
SPRING 2008
Thursday, January 24
— Co-Sponsored by the Lyceum
Program and the African and African-American Studies Program
“A Woman, Ain’t I?”
Sojourner Truth as recreated by Kathryn Woods
Dramatic Performance
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 6
— Faculty Showcase Event
Dr. Gregory Thompson
Chair, Department of Music Johnson C. Smith University
Piano and Woodwind Quintet Recital
The Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 15
— Dr. Maha Gingrich's Indian
Dance
Students
“Dances of India”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 18
— Lyceum Program in Collaboration
with THE JCSU Violence Prevention Coalition
Kevin Powell, Political Activist
“Sexism From a Male Perspecitve”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 25
— Thirteenth Annual World of
Words Poetry Festival
Dr. Patrica Jabbeh Wesley, Poet
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
Writing Workshop
4:00 p.m.
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
Public Reading
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 26
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Due to circumstances
beyond our control,
these Lyceum Poetry Festival events will be changed.
Tyehimba Jess is not able to perform at this time.
Thursday, March 27
— Metta S. Sáma, Poet
(Formerly Lydia Melvin)
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
Writing Workshop
4:00 p.m.
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
Public Reading
7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 28
— Thirteenth World of Words
Poetry Festival
Black Ink Monks Performance Poetry
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thursday and Friday, April 10 and 11 —
JCSU Ira B. Aldridge
Drama Guild Performance
The Day of Absence by Douglas Turner Ward
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 17 — Dr. Bernice
Johnson Reagon,
Music Historian
“Notes from the Cultural Autobiography of a Freedom Singer”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
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