| Friday, May 3 |
11:00 am –
6:00 pm |
Registration
Rose Alumni House - 232 York Street (between Chapel
and Elm) |
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Pre-Conference Events |
9:30 am -
3:30 pm |
Open House - Department of African American
Studies
493 College Street (between Grove and Wall) |
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1:15 pm -
2:15 pm |
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Wall and High Streets |
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Highlights of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial
Collection of African American Arts and Letters, presented by
Patricia Willis, Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Curator, Collection
of American Literature |
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2:30pm –
3:30 pm |
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street |
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A special tour of the African and American collections
led by Mary Kordak '88 MA, Jan & Frederick Mayer Curator
of Education |
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Conference |
Opening
Session |
Yale University Art Gallery McNeil Lecture Hall
1111 Chapel Street |
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4:15pm -
5:45pm |
Welcoming Remarks |
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Richard Brodhead '68 BA, '72 PhD (English)
Dean, Yale College |
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Hazel Carby
Chair, Yale Department of African American Studies |
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4:00 pm –
5:30 pm |
The Founders of African American Studies at
Yale:
Revisiting Origins |
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MODERATOR |
Ralph C. Dawson '71 BA |
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PANELISTS |
Wendell Bell
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University |
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Roy S. Bryce-Laporte
Director, African American Studies Program
Yale University, 1969-1972 |
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Robert Dahl '40 PhD (Government)
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Yale University |
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Craig Foster '69 BA |
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Donald Ogilvie '68 BA, '78 MPPM |
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Edwin S. Redkey '67 PhD (American
Studies) |
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Charles Taylor '50 BA, '55 PhD (English)
Former Provost, Yale University |
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| 6:00 pm |
Reception
Afro-American Cultural Center
211 Park Street |
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| 7:30 pm |
Dinner
Linonia & Brothers Reading Room, Sterling Memorial Library
120 High Street
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| WELCOME |
Richard C. Levin '74 PhD (Economics)
President of Yale University |
DINNER
TALK |
Reflections on African American Studies in a Global University
Kurt Schmoke '71
Senior Fellow, Yale Corporation |
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| Saturday, May 4 |
Panel
Sessions |
Yale University Art Gallery McNeil Lecture Hall
1111 Chapel Street (Use High Street Entrance) |
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9:00 am –
10:15 am |
1968 / 2001: Are We Still Radicals? |
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Cathy Cohen
Yale University |
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Eric Arnesen '84 MA, '86 PhD (History)
University of Illinois |
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Kathleen Cleaver '84 BA, 89 JD
Emory University
School of Law |
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. '73 BA
Harvard University |
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Caroline Jackson-Smith '74 BA
Oberlin College |
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10:15 am –
10:45 am |
Coffee break |
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10:45 am –
12:00 pm |
A New Century: Imagining Futures |
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MODERATOR |
Robert Stepto
Yale University |
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PANELISTS |
Jayna Brown '01 PhD (American Studies)
University of Oregon |
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Leigh Raiford '98 MA
Yale University
current graduate student |
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Robert Reid-Pharr '94 PhD (American Studies)
City University of New York Graduate Center |
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Rebecca Walker '92 BA
Writer, Berkeley, California |
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12:15 pm –
1:45 pm |
Lunch and presentation of William Pickens papers,
memorabilia, and key
Calhoun College Dining Hall |
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PRESENTERS |
William Pickens III |
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Pamela Alison Pickens |
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John Montier Pickens |
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2:00 pm –
3:00 pm |
Film: "Homecoming" directed by Charlene
Gilbert '87 BA
Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall
1111Chapel Street (use High Street entrance) |
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Celebrating Ourselves: An Evening
of African American Art and Performance |
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Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 101
63 High Street |
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READINGS |
Elizabeth Alexander '84 BA Yale University |
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Joanne Braxton '84 PhD (American Studies) College
of William and Mary |
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Gloria Naylor '83 MA |
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| 6:00 pm |
Cocktails and Dinner |
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| 8:30 pm |
Jazz Concert |
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Saybrook College Dining Room
Neighborhood Music School Jazz Faculty All Star Ensemble |
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| Sunday, May 5 |
| 9:00 am |
Memorial Service
Afro-American Cultural Center 211 Park Street |
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Dwight Andrews '77
MDiv, '93 PhD (Music) will lead a service of remembrance for
those who were of great importance to African American Studies
at Yale |
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John Blassingame
'71 PhD (History):
Tribute by Gerald Jaynes, Professor, Economics and African American
Studies, Yale University |
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Sylvia Ardyn Boone
'79 PhD (History of Art):
Tribute by Vera F. Wells '71 BA |
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Charles Davis:
Tribute by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. '73 BA |
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Glenn DeChabert
'70:
Tribute by Woody Brittain '70 BA |
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Armstead Robinson
'68 BA, '72 (Div):
Tribute by Donald Ogilvie '68 BA, '78 MPPM |
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Rhonda
Williams
Tribute by Charlene Gilbert '87 BA |
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10:30 am –
11:30 am |
The Future of the African American Studies Department
and the Afro-American Cultural Center
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211
320 York Street |
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MODERATOR |
Don M. Roman '71 BA |
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PANELISTS |
Victor Chears '74 BA |
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Erica S. Turnipseed '93 BA |
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Vera F. Wells '71 BA |
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11:30 am –
1:00 pm |
Farewell brunch
Hall of Graduate Studies Dining Room
320 York Street |
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