Imagining a World, Reimagining a Future World | Corey D. B. Walker, PhD | TEDxGuilfordCollege

What does it mean to imagine a world, much less reimagine a future world? In a moment of new and profound challenges, the rich preserve of our imaginations is very much needed in order to secure a new world of human flourishing and planetary peace.

Corey D. B. Walker is Dean of the College and John W. and Anna Hodgin Hanes Professor of the Humanities at Winston-Salem State University.

Prior to his appointment at Winston-Salem State University, Dean Walker served as chair of the department of Africana Studies at Brown University where he was also a tenured faculty member. Dean Walker also served as the inaugural director of the Center for the Study of Local Knowledge and member of the faculty in the department of Religious Studies and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African and African American Studies at the University of Virginia.

A scholar of African American social, political, and religious thought, Dean Walker has published broadly on African American thought and culture, African American religion, and religion and American public life. He has lectured before academic audiences in the United States, the Caribbean and South America, Europe, and Africa.