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The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations

presents The 30th Annual Ancient

Kemetic (Egyptian) Studies Conference

Intellectual Warfare: The Role of African Civilizations in the African Renaissance

March 14-17, 2013 Howard University

Blackburn University Center 2397 6

th Street NW Washington, DC 20059

Hosted by ASCAC Mid-Atlantic Region &

Afro-American Studies Department

Dr. Mario H. Beatty International President

(301) 204-7718

Intellectual Warfare:

The Role of African Civilizations in the African Renaissance

In the spirit of our Ancestors, our Pan-African global family, and the yet unborn, ASCAC extends a warm invitation for you to join us for our 30th Annual Ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) Studies Conference. For the past 29 years, ASCAC has demonstrated a consistent commitment to provide the Pan-African global family with an institutional vehicle for the presentation of knowledge of African civilizations and its relevance to our contemporary lives. Our 2013 theme is Intellectual Warfare: The Role of African Civilizations in the African Renaissance. In March of 2013, we will gather in Washington, D.C. at Howard University to celebrate our past 29 years of existence and to not only renew our moral obligation and responsibility to counter the political, cultural, and psychological oppression of African people, but to also continue to promote, preserve, and disseminate African cultural and intellectual enlightenment that sustains our humanity and is the foundation of our liberation.

The reflective, active, and productive use of our past found in African civilizations has a critical role to play in laying the foundation for the optimal transformation and liberation of African people. For ASCAC, the remembrance, recovery, and restoration of the past is never exclusively about memory; it represents, more importantly, the promise of the future to preserve and perpetuate African historical and cultural consciousness as the foundation for engaging the complexities of the world. From the knowledge produced and communicated by our ancestors, we can reconstruct African understandings of cosmology and social order, as well as the paradigms that undergirded this knowledge. Our revered ancestor and 1st ASCAC President, Dr. Jacob H. Carruthers, maa kheru (true of voice), anchored the historical and cultural orientation of the African Renaissance in Kemet with the reign of Amenemhat I, who ushered in the 12th dynasty and declared in his Horus name a Weheme Mesu, (i.e, a Repetition of the Birth) and commenced to usher in a literary renaissance that emphasized restoring the social and political order before the civil war with necessary contemporary revisions, utilizing various persons and leaders as models in instruction about the past, and recording current affairs with an orientation toward the history of the future. As a foundation for the African Renaissance, we must control our own historical and cultural memory and write our own history. The history of a dominated people is written for them; the history of a liberated people is written by themselves.

The famous Kemetic Instruction for Merikare asserts that Maat (Truth) comes to one distilled, shaped in the sayings of the ancestors. Building on this imperative, the ASCAC conference this year promises, as always, to inspire African people to continue to drink from the deep well of the Wisdom Instructions from our Ancestors and find guidance in understanding our past, present, and future in organizing and guiding the ongoing struggle for the African mind. We are convinced that through intergenerational exchanges this conference will ignite, encourage, and direct the energy of the participants throughout the African world community to build and create. In highlighting our imperative of intergenerational transmission, there will be many undergraduate and graduate students presenting this year, emphasizing the imperative that ASCAC is building for eternity.

This ASCAC conference will, no doubt engage the whole community and prompt us to elevated levels of understanding of our mission to recreate a new world where the wisdom of our Ancestors is heard and constructed for the improvement of ourselves, our future generations, and the whole of humanity for all of eternity.

Dr. Mario Beatty, International President, ASCAC

Member $150 Elder $100 Non-Member $200 Student $75

Full Page $250 Business Card $35 Half Page $150 Patron $10 Fourth Page $100 Ancestor $10

Executive Committee Conference Site Invited Participants include Yes! I Will Attend This Historic Event Dr. Mario Beatty International President Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr 1st Vice President Dr. Joye Hardiman 2nd Vice President Dr. Annette Blake Secretary Mr. Jerome Boykin Treasurer Dr. Thophile Obenga Member Dr. Jacob H. Carruthers Ancestor Dr. John Henrik Clarke Ancestor Dr. Asa G. Hilliard, III Ancestor Regional Presidents Ms. LaTrella Thornton

Eastern Region (914)434-5442 Mr. Ron McCoy

Mid-Atlantic Region (215) 549-2616 Ms. Rosetta Cash

Midwest Region (773) 727-2655 Mr. Larry Miles

Southern Region (404) 697-3779 Mr. Naeem Deskins

Western Region (510)290-4531 Dr. Amon Saba Saakana

Howard University (202) 806-5978 2397- 6th Street NW Washington, DC 20059 Program Schedule Thursday, March 14, 2013 Community Reception 6 pm - 9 pm Friday, March 15, 2013 Opening Session 9 am Plenaries/Workshops all day Saturday, March 16, 2013 Plenaries/Workshops 9 am Sunday, March 17, 2013 Closing Session 9 am -1 pm

African Marketplace Vendors are invited to participate in the ASCAC Marketplace. ASCAC members $300

Non-members $375 Register online at www.ascacfoundation.org OR Please enclose a certified check or money order. (NOTE: The African Marketplace opens

Anderson Thompson Naim Akbar Rkhty Wimby Amen Seitu Amenwahsu Daudi Azibo Annette Blake Tony Browder Audry Bullard Kevin Bullard Greg Kimathi Carr If Carruthers Rosetta Cash Charles Finch Lafayette Gaston W. Joye Hardiman Debora Heard Patsy Jo Hilliard David Imhotep Leonard Jeffries Rosalind Jeffries

Yosef ben Jochannan Yvonne Jones Kobi K. Kambon Subira Kifano Sam Livingston Moriba Kelsey Ndugu Khan Tony Martin Bonotchi Montgomery Linda James Myers Q.M. Kefa Nephthys Wade Nobles LaFrancis Rodgers Rose James Smalls Jamie Thomas Theophile Obenga Valethia Watkins Andreas Woods Marimba Ani YOU and many more

Name Address

City State

Zip / Postal Code

Phone ( ) Email Online & Early Registration Fee* Register online at www.ascacfoundation.org Includes banquet

Member $150 Non-Member $200 Elders $100 Students $75

*Deadline March 10th 11:59 p.m. EST. Rates increase at midnight

Membership Fee* U K Region 011-44-207-243-3620

Call for Papers Panels and presentations are welcomed in the areas of Education, Research, Creative Productions, Science and Spiritual Development.

Proposals/abstracts, no more than one typed page in length, MUST be received by February 1, 2013.

You are to provide the title of your paper, your complete mailing address, and institutional affiliation, if any, to:

email: mariosesh@aol.com

Friday, March 18 at 9 A.M. and closes Sunday, March 17 at 12 Noon.) (No on-site vendor registration)

Online & Early Registration Fees

*Deadline March 10th 11:59 p.m. EST Rates increase $50 at midnight

Hotel Reservations Mention ASCAC. Sheraton Silver Spring 8777 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20910 301.589.0800 Ask for In House Reservations $5.00 Parking Pass/Day Quoted prices available until February 21, 2013. Rate: $95 per room plus local/occupancy taxes. Transportation from hotel to conference site provided for a Love Donation ($).

Souvenir Program Book Submit your ad for the ASCAC souvenir program book which serves as a beautiful historical document of achievements and accomplishments of ASCAC and its supporters. All ads MUST be in camera-ready format high quality PDF and submitted by February 14, 2013. Email to noelcami@gmail.com. Payable online at www.ascacfoundation.org

Conference correspondence, applications and payments can be also be mailed to:

ASCAC Foundation P.O. Box 2128

Silver Spring, MD 20915 No Cash Please

Individual $50 Elder/Student $25

*membership valid through March 31, 2014 Vendor Fee* $

ASCAC Member $300 Non-member $375

Souvenir Book Ad $ Camera Ready Ad enclosed

(See Souvenir Program Book for rate data)

Contribution I am unable to attend, however, I want to

support ASCAC. $ I want to give additional support to ASCAC.

$

Total Amount Enclosed $