7th Annual Student Videoconference Programme 27 March 2015 Conference Room 2 - Conference Building, United Nations Live Webcast by UN Television and Web Services Section 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (EDT) Videoconference Sites: Brazil • Trinidad and Tobago • USA 8:30 a.m. Registration begins (UN Headquarters, New York) 9:00 a.m. Videoconference sites link with UN Headquarters 9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks: Kimberly Mann, Chief, Education Outreach Section, Outreach Division, Department of Public Information 9:35 a.m. Introduction of videoconference sites 9:40 a.m. Introductory remarks by Moderator, Eola Dance, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Programme, Northeast Region Coordinator 9:50 a.m. Students’ Presentation: More than Slaves, Women UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) in Brazil Comments and questions from all sites 10:00 a.m. Break 10:05 a.m. Students’ Presentation: ...Do Not Call Us Slaves and Call of Liberty UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) in Trinidad and Tobago Comments and questions from all sites Other schools/institutions Blue Nile Passage, Inc., NY, NY Cicely Tyson Community School of the Performing & Fine Arts, East Orange, NJ East Orange Campus High School, East Orange, NJ East Orange STEM Academy, East Orange, NJ National Association for Advancement of Coloured People, NJ By live webcast Bulkeley High School, Hartford, CT Videoconference Sites and Participating Schools Brazil Colégio Magno/Mágico de Oz Trinidad and Tobago St. James Secondary School, Butler Institute for Lifelong Learning United States Arlington High School, Arlington, Nebraska Participating Online Join the conversation! Twitter: @RememberSlavery Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rememberslavery http://rememberslavery.un.org
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7th Annual Student Videoconference Programme
27 March 2015
Conference Room 2 - Conference Building, United NationsLive Webcast by UN Television and Web Services Section
9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (EDT)
Videoconference Sites: Brazil • Trinidad and Tobago • USA
8:30 a.m. Registration begins (UN Headquarters, New York)
9:00 a.m. Videoconference sites link with UN Headquarters
9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks: Kimberly Mann, Chief, Education Outreach Section, Outreach Division, Department of Public Information
9:35 a.m. Introduction of videoconference sites
9:40 a.m. Introductory remarks by Moderator, Eola Dance, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Programme, Northeast Region Coordinator
9:50 a.m. Students’ Presentation: More than Slaves, Women UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) in Brazil Comments and questions from all sites
10:00 a.m. Break10:05 a.m. Students’ Presentation: ...Do Not Call Us Slaves and Call of Liberty
UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) in Trinidad and Tobago
Comments and questions from all sites
Other schools/institutionsBlue Nile Passage, Inc., NY, NY
Cicely Tyson Community School of the Performing & Fine Arts, East Orange, NJ
East Orange Campus High School, East Orange, NJ
East Orange STEM Academy, East Orange, NJ
National Association for Advancement of Coloured People, NJ
By live webcastBulkeley High School, Hartford, CT
Videoconference Sites and Participating SchoolsBrazil Colégio Magno/Mágico de Oz
Trinidad and Tobago St. James Secondary School, Butler Institute for Lifelong Learning
United States Arlington High School, Arlington, Nebraska
Participating Online
Join the conversation!
Twitter: @RememberSlavery
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rememberslavery
http://rememberslavery.un.org
10:15 a.m. Students’ Presentation: Reading of Maya Angelou’s poem, Phenomenal Women, Nellie Thornton School, Mount Vernon, NY, USA
10:20 a.m. Students’ Presentation: Rachel Bundy: A Symbol of Hope
Arlington High School, Arlington, Nebraska
Comments and questions from all sites
10:30 a.m. Margaret Washington, Professor of History and American Studies, Cornell University, Women and Resistance from a Diaspora Perspective
Comments and questions from all sites
10:40 a.m Ark of Return, Permanent Memorial to Honour the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Video clip
10:46 a.m. Break
10:51 a.m. Small group discussions
11:30 a.m. Sharing highlights from small group discussions
12:00 p.m. Close of Conference
Special thanks to the UNESCO ASPnet National Coordinators: Omar Mohammed (Trinidad and Tobago), Myriam Tricate (Brazil) and
Livia Saldari, ASPnet International Coordinator (UNESCO)
Conference Organizers and Partners
United NationsDepartment of Public Information, UN Headquarters, New York | International Coordination of UNESCO’s Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet), UNESCO, Paris
Civil Society OrganizationsLinks, Inc. | NAACP (Orange and Maplewood, NJ)
Conference ParticipantsUN Headquarters, NY
Schools invited by Links, Inc.Academy of Mt. St. Ursula, Bronx, NY
