Schedule

Thursday, May 19

06:00 - 06:30 PM

Registration

06:30 - 06:45 PM

Welcome Remarks

06:45 - 08:30 PM

Opening Roundtable The Long Struggle for Civil Rights and Black Freedom

chair
Barbara Ransby University of Illinois, Chicago
PANELISTS
Clayborne Carson Stanford University
Sara M. Evans University of Minnesota
Jessica Pierce Black Youth 100 Project
Terrence Roberts Terrence Roberts Consulting
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Morgan State University
BLOGGERS
Raymond Arsenault University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
Allison Miller American Historical Association

Friday, May 20

08:00 - 08:30 AM

Registration

08:30 - 08:35 AM

Welcome Remarks

08:35 - 10:20 AM

Session 1 Who Is Black America?

chair
Ira Berlin University of Maryland
PANELISTS
Elsa Barkley Brown University of Maryland
Tiya Miles University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dylan C. Penningroth University of California, Berkeley
Deborah Gray White Rutgers University, New Brunswick
BLOGGERS
Allyson Hobbs Stanford University
Jonathan Holloway Yale University

10:20 - 10:35 AM

Break

10:35 - 12:20 PM

Session 2 Slavery and Freedom

chair
Eric Foner Columbia University
PANELISTS
Annette Gordon-Reed Harvard University
Thavolia Glymph Duke University
Walter Johnson Harvard University
Brenda E. Stevenson University of California, Los Angeles
BLOGGERS
Gregory P. Downs University of California, Davis
Rita Roberts Scripps College
Stephanie Smallwood University of Washington

12:20 - 01:40 PM

Lunch Break

01:40 - 03:25 PM

Session 3 Race, Power, and Urban Spaces

chair
Thomas J. Sugrue New York University
PANELISTS
N. D. B. Connolly New York University
Leslie M. Harris Emory University
Carl Nightingale University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Joe William Trotter Jr. Carnegie Mellon University
BLOGGERS
Mary N. Elliott National Museum of African American History and Culture
Robert O. Self Brown University

03:25 - 03:45 PM

Break

03:45 - 05:30 PM

Session 4 Capitalism and the Making and Unmaking of Black America

chair
Steven Hahn University of Pennsylvania
PANELISTS
Eric Arnesen George Washington University
Adrienne Monteith Petty City College of New York
Shane White University of Sydney
William Julius Wilson Harvard University
BLOGGERS
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis Howard University
Nick Salvatore Cornell University

Saturday, May 21

08:00 - 08:30 AM

Registration

08:30 - 08:35 AM

Welcome Remarks

08:35 - 10:20 AM

Session 5 What is African American Religion?

chair
Edna Greene Medford Howard University
PANELISTS
Anthea Butler University of Pennsylvania
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Princeton University
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Harvard University
Judith Weisenfeld Princeton University
BLOGGERS
Wallace D. Best Princeton University
Paul Harvey University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

10:20 - 10:35 AM

Break

10:35 - 12:20 PM

Session 6 Internationalization of African American Politics and Culture

chair
David Levering Lewis New York University
PANELISTS
Carol Anderson Emory University
T. Ruby Patterson-Myers Vanderbilt University
Barbara D. Savage University of Pennsylvania
James Sidbury Rice University
BLOGGERS
James T. Campbell Stanford University
Gerald Early Washington University at St. Louis

12:20 - 01:40 PM

Lunch Break

01:40 - 03:25 PM

Session 7 History, Preservation, and Public Reckoning in Museums

chair
Lonnie G. Bunch III National Museum of African American History and Culture
PANELISTS
David W. Blight Yale University
Dolores Hayden Yale University
Dorothy Spruill Redford Somerset Place State Historic Site
BLOGGERS
Paul Gardullo NMAAHC
Gretchen Sullivan Sorin Cooperstown Graduate Program

03:25 - 03:45 PM

Break

03:45 - 05:30 PM

Session 8 African American History as American History

chair
Earl Lewis The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
PANELISTS
Darlene Clark Hine Northwestern University
Thomas C. Holt University of Chicago
Jacqueline Jones University of Texas at Austin
James Grossman American Historical Association
Nell Irvin Painter Princeton University
BLOGGERS
Marcia Chatelain Georgetown University
Stephanie J. Shaw The Ohio State University