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Emancipation and Race in the Age of Lincoln Conference As part of the Washington, D.C. citywide Emancipation Day, the ALBC and Howard University will host a national conference exploring the domestic and international dimensions of emancipation. Each day will feature panel discussions and an evening performance. A printable version of the program can be found here. ________________________________________________________ April 16, 2009 - Day 1: Challenges to Slavery1:00-1:15 - Opening Remarks:
Dr. Joseph P. Reidy, Associate Provost and Professor of History, Howard Univ.
1:15-1:30 - Panel One: Ideological Origins of Emancipation - Moderator:
*Flordeliz Bugarin, Asst. Professor of Anthorpology, Howard Univ. - Presenters:
*John Stauffer, Professor of English and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
*Manisha Sinha, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
3:15-5:15 - Panel Two: Quests for Freedom by Enslaved People - Moderator:
*Jules Harrell, Professor of Psychology, Howard University - Presenters:
*Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
*Susan O’Donovan, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and History, Harvard University
*Eleanor Traylor, Professor and Chairperson, Department of English, Howard University
5:30-8:00 - Evening Program/Reception
- Tribute to Dr. John Hope Franklin: Edna Greene Medford, Associate Professor of History, Howard University.
- Fine Arts Tribute, Division of Fine Arts, Howard University
Dr. Lonnie Bunch, Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture will deliever the keynote address. ________________________________________________________ April 17, 2009 - Day 2: Emancipation and Revolution9:15-11:15 - Panel One: Comparative Emancipations in the Americas - Moderator:
*Yasmin DeGout, Associate Professor of English, Howard University - Presenters:
*Laurent Dubois, Professor of French and History, Duke University
*Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, Assistant Professor of History, Howard University
*Gordon Gill, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Oberlin College
11:30-1:30 - Panel Two: Emancipation in the United States - Moderator
*Ira Berlin, Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park - Presenters:
*Dr. Joseph P. Reidy, Associate Provost and Professor of History, Howard University
*Kate Masur, Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University
*E. Ethelbert Miller, Director, African American Resource Center, Howard University
2:15-3:15 - Panel Three: Abraham Lincoln, Lawyer in the White House: the Emancipation Proclamation as a Legal Document - Moderator:
*Jay Stewart, Instructor, Department of Political Science, Howard University - Presenter:
*Frank Williams, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Rhode Island (Retired) - Respondent:
*Kurt Schmoke, Dean, School of Law, Howard University
3:30-5:00 - Panel Four: Emancipation in the District of Columbia - Moderator:
*Edna Greene Medford, Associate Professor of History, Howard University - Presenters:
*Peter Hanes, DC Emancipation Coordinator, and DC - Reading is Fundamental
*C.R. Gibbs, Historian/Independent Researcher, Washington, DC
*Clarence Davis, Professor of History, University of the District of Columbia
7:00-9:00 - Evening Program/Recpetion - Program: "Song Texts and the Cultural Voice of Emancipation and Freedom"
- Moderator:
*Sais Kamaladiin, Assistant Professor of Music, Howard University - Presenter:
*Bernice Johnson Reagon, Professor Emeritus of History, American University - Respondent:
*Anthony Randolph, Assistant Professor of Music, Howard University
________________________________________________________ April 18, 2009 - Day 3: The Meaning of Emancipation10:00-12:00 - Panel One: Conveying Ideas of Race and Emancipation at Lincoln Sites - Moderator:
*Dr. Darrel BIgham, Chairman, Education Committee, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission - Presenters:
*Thomas Schwartz, Illinois State Historian
*Frank Milligan, Director, President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldier's Home
*Timothy Townsend, Historian, Lincoln Home and National Historic Site, National Park Service
1:00-2:00 - Panel Two: Picturing Freedom: The Emancipation Proclamation in American Visual Memory - Moderator:
*Thomas Battle, Director, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University - Presenter:
*Harold Holzer, Vice President for External Affairs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Co-chair Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission - Respondent:
*Teresia Bush, Assistant Professor of Art History, Howard University
2:00-4:00 - Panel Three: Legacies of the Civil War: A Roundtable Discussion - Moderator:
*Daryl Michael Scott, Professor of History, Howard University - Presenters:
*David Blight, Professor of History and Director, Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University
*Fitzhugh Brundage, William B. Umstead Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
*Kirk Savage, Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Art, University of Pittsburgh
*Micki McElya, Assistant Professor of History, University of Connecticut
**The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center exhibit, "Race and Emancipation in the Age of Lincoln" will be available for viewing throughout the conference period |
