{"id":66,"date":"2010-10-07T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T18:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foreignpolicyconf\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2010-10-07T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T18:32:14","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foreignpolicyconf\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h4>Boston University<br \/>\nOctober 27-28, 2010<\/h4>\n<p>Boston University\u2019s African American Studies Program in conjunction   with the African Presidential Archives and Research Center presents <strong>African Americans and U.S. Foreign Policy<\/strong>,   a two-day conference to be held from October 27-28, 2010. The  conference will engage academics, diplomats, and public and private  sector leaders  in a conversation on the contributions of African  Americans to United  States\u2019 foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Our goal is to analyze the role of African Americans on U.S.  foreign  policy, with a focus on both the historical and current impact.   Beginning with the arrival of Africans in North American colonies   through the abolition of slavery to contemporary U.S. foreign policy,   the conference will delve into the influence of African American   individuals, movements, and institutions and their role in shaping the   policy framework defining American foreign policy. The emergence of   Pan-Africanism, the importance of the African independence movement, the   role of the Black Church, and United Nations and State Department   politics will be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>With this mix of academics, diplomats and public and private sector   leaders the result will be a cutting-edge conversation and policy   discussion that will provide a clearer insight into future policy   options and strategies for affecting change to future policies.\u00a0The   symposium will aim to facilitate a better understanding by all Americans   of the contributions African Americans have made in civic  participation  and policy formation relative to U.S. foreign policy.  This effort has  the potential to lead to more informed policies and  influence future  practices by increasing the fund of knowledge through  this forum for  discussion.<\/p>\n<p>African Americans &amp; U.S. Foreign Policy is grateful for financial  support from the Boston University Humanities Foundation, Blue Cross\/  Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and USAID.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University October 27-28, 2010 Boston University\u2019s African American Studies Program in conjunction with the African Presidential Archives and Research Center presents African Americans and U.S. Foreign Policy, a two-day conference to be held from October 27-28, 2010. The conference will engage academics, diplomats, and public and private sector leaders in a conversation on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foreignpolicyconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foreignpolicyconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foreignpolicyconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foreignpolicyconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foreignpolicyconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foreignpolicyconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foreignpolicyconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foreignpolicyconf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}