History Conference 2009 / Schedule of Events
Expanding Civil Rights History in Time and Space
November 12, 13, and 14, 2009
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| Thursday, November 12 / University of New Hampshire Alumni Center | ||
| 4 p.m. | Public Lecture: William H. Chafe, Duke University “From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Continuity of Struggle” The lecture will be followed by a reception. |
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| Friday, November 13 / Swampscott Room, Holloway Commons | ||
| 9:15 a.m. | Greetings from John Aber, Provost, University of New Hampshire | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Keynote Address: Kevin Boyle, Ohio State University “Redemption: Civil Rights, History, and the Promise of America” |
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| 10:30 a.m. | Panel: The Long Civil Rights Movement (Ellen Fitzpatrick, moderator) Glenda E. Gilmore, Yale University. “Black Women’s Politics and the Long Civil Rights Movement” Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University. “Between the Freedom Struggle and Civil Rights” Michael K. Honey, University of Washington. “Martin Luther King, Labor, and the Long Civil Rights Movement” Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania. “How About a Shorter Civil Rights Movement?: Black Nationalism, Social Democracy, and the Limits of the Slavery to Freedom Narrative” |
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| 2:30 p.m. | Panel: Beyond the Southern Struggle against Segregation (William Leuchtenburg, moderator) Peniel E. Joseph, Tufts University. “Reimagining the Black Power Movement” George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California. “‘Walk Out Now or Drop Out Tomorrow!’: The 1968 East. L.A. Blowouts and the Path of Civil Rights Struggles in Multiracial Los Angeles” Kevin K. Gaines, University of Michigan. “Black Power and the Discourse of Slavery” |
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| Saturday, November 14 / Swampscott Room, Holloway Commons | ||
| 9:30 a.m. | Panel: New Dimensions of Civil Rights History (Funso Afolayan, moderator) Manfred Berg, University of Heidelberg. “The African American Civil Rights Movement in a Global Perspective” Richard Olaniyan, Obefemi Awolowo University. “The Quest for the Promise: An African Perspective of the United States Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1968” Renee Romano, Oberlin College: “A Really Long Long Civil Rights Movement? Memory Work and the Struggle for Racial Equality” |
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| 11:30 a.m. | Concluding Remarks: Harvard Sitkoff, University of New Hampshire | |