This our conference Schedule. Schedule 16th Annual Conference in African American History Graduate Association of African American History University of Memphis February 11-13, 2015 All events in the University Center DAY 1- Wednesday, February 11 Session 1: 8:30 am- 10:30 am Identity and Culture in African American Culture Memphis Room (UC 340) (Each panelist is allowed 20 minutes to present their paper and 10 minutes for a question and answer session. Commentators are allowed 30 minutes total to make commentaries on all presentations). Chair: Grad Student X, University of Memphis John Brown, Ohio State University, “Untying the Bootstraps: Jesse Binga, the Frontier West, and the Myth of American Individualism.” Samuel Gale, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, “A Bitter Partnership: The Black Press’ Contentious Relationship with the Negro Leagues in the Struggle to Integrate Major League Baseball.” Yaeko Takada, The University of Mississippi, “Blackface Musicians in Minstrelsy.” Commentator: Dr. Sheena Harris, Tuskegee University, AL. Session 2: 10:30 am-12:30 pm Social Policy and the Binaries of Politics against Social Change Fountain View Board Room (UC 352) Chair: Graduate Student X, University of Memphis Brian Hamilton, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Sowing and Reaping on Davis Bend.” Simon Fisher, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Pauli Murray vs. Jane Crow: Challenging Racial and Gender Binaries in the Early Civil Rights Movement.” Danielle St. Julien, Binghampton University,“Benign” Neglect? The Rhetoric & Public Policy Consequences of Black Economic Progress in the Nixon Administration, 1969-1972. Commentator: Dr. Shirletta Kinchen, University of Louisville, Ky Break For Lunch 12:30 pm-1:15 pm Break for lunch. Please see GAAAH table for vouchers for University Center Food Court. Session 3 : 1:15 pm-3:15 pm Religion within African American Culture Memphis Room (UC 340) Chair: Graduate Student X, University of Memphis Richard Rodriguez, Florida International University, “The Fearful Penalties of God’s Broken Law”: Henry Highland Garnet and the Theology of Providential Deliverance through Divine Retribution for Slavery.” Ovell Hamilton, Georgia State University, “The Latter Third Great Awakening Church of God in Christ Holy Ghost Power and Political Power.” Sher Afgan Tareen, Florida State University, “Black Islam and the Subversion of American Civil Religion, 1960-1979.” Melissa Ford, Saint Louis University, A Bible in One Hand, a Brick in the Other: The 1933 St. Louis Nut Pickers Strike and Black Radicalism in the American Heartland. Commentator: Dr. Edward Salo, State University, AR. Session 4: 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Manhood, Militancy, and State Power River Room (UC 300) Chair: Graduate Student X, University of Memphis Elizabeth Lambert, Middle Tennessee State University, “The Harlem Hellfighters and the Politics of Black Manhood during World War II.” Nathan Seeley, Florida International University, “We are Men: Black Militarism and Masculinity.” Bryan Kessler, The University of Mississippi, “White, Black, and Blue: The Battle over Black Police, Professionalization, and Police Brutality in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963-1970.” Commentator: Dr. William C. Johnson, University of Memphis DAY 2 Thursday, February 12, 2015 Session 5: 8:30 am-10:30 am Aspects of Colonialism in the African Diaspora Memphis Room (UC 340) Chair: Grad Student X, University of Memphis Benjamin Linzy, Murray State University – Colonialists and Captives: Reactions to European Colonial Expansion Khalil A. Johnson Jr., Yale University, “An Outcast and a Stranger in Mine Own House”: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problem of Settler Colonialism.” Steven Knowlton, The University of Memphis, “Flags of New World Slave Risings.”(not evaluated) Commentator: Dr. E. Jenkins, University of Memphis Session 6: 10:30 am- 12:00 pm Race and Public Space Room (TBA) Chair: Grad Student X. University of Memphis Katie King, The University of Mississippi, “The Sweet Auburn Curb Market: The Search For Contested Space and Cultural Resistance in the City too Busy to Hate. Lindsey Reynolds, The University of Mississippi. “Mississippi’s Living Monument: The Public History of Po’ Monkey’s. Commentator: Dr. Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis (not confirmed) The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change Luncheon and Lecture by Dr. Daniel Matlin Bluff Room (UC 308) 12:00pm-1:30pm Lecture and Lunch Roundtable Discussion and Commentary on recent Social Activism: 2:00 pm-3:30 pm Location: Memphis Room (UC 340): Moderator: Dr. Kaylin Ewing Participants: Dr. Christopher Johnson, Dr. McKinney, Dr. Robinson, Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Andre Johnson This will include a roundtable discussion about the significance surrounding social activism related to the killings of black males by police. This panel will consist of commentary and a question and answer session from several of the university’s key scholars. Keynote Address by Dr. Eddie Glaude, Princeton University “The Values Gap: Race and Contemporary American Politics.” UC Ballroom 6:00 pm Reception/ 6:30-7:30 pm Keynote Address 7:30 – 7:45 pm Question and Answer session 7:45-8:15 pm Book Signing in Lobby Day 3 Friday, February 13 Race and Place, Social Activism and Civil Rights Session 7: 8:30 am-10:30 am River Room (UC 300) Chair: Graduate Student X, University of Memphis Precious Vines, Jackson State University, “Bob Moses, COFO, and the Ending of Slavery by Another Name.” Pamela Walker, University of New Orleans, “Praying, working, studying to stop this war in our land”: The Mississippi Box Project’s Initiative to Alleviate Poverty and Build Interracial Friendships During the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. Temitope Abisoye Noah, New York University, “Nietzsche, Love, and Power: Martin Luther King Jr. on Polarities of Opposites in Nietzschean Philosophy.” Commentator: Dr. Ann Mulhearn, University of Memphis
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