Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM
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National Park Service ASALH 2011 Forum
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Moderator:
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Alan Spears National Park Conservation Association http://www.npca.org/
Alan Spears joined the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) in May of 1999, as an intern for the Enhancing Cultural Diversity program. During the next four years, Alan managed the National Parks Community Partners Program, a community-based effort designed to better connect people from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds to their local and regional national parks.
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John W. Franklin National Museum of African American History and Culture http://nmaahc.si.edu/
John W. Franklin, the Director of Partnerships and International Programs at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, has worked on African American, African, and African Diaspora programs for the past 24 years at the Smithsonian.
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Kate Clifford Larson Simmons College http://www.simmons.edu/
Kate Clifford Larson, PhD., is an historian and leading Harriet Tubman scholar and the author of Bound For the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (Ballantine/One World, 2004). With degrees from Simmons College and Northeastern University, and a doctorate in history from the University of New Hampshire, Larson specializes in 19th and 20th century U.S. Women’s and African American History.
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Robert Stanton Department of the Interior http://www.doi.gov/index.cfm
Robert G. Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service, is a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. Prior to assuming this position, Mr. Stanton served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Program Management in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget.
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Barbara Tagger National Park Service http://www.nps.gov/index.htm
Barbara Tagger serves as a historian in the Division of Interpretation and Education of the National Park Service Southeast Region office located in Atlanta, Georgia. She is currently on a special detail duty assignment with the Department of Natural Resources, Maryland Park Service, and is acting as the interim project manager for the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park Initiative.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 from 5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
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Hip Hop, Gender, and Social Consciousness
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MODERATOR and PANELIST:
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Mark Anthony Neal Duke University
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University of Missouri-Columbia
Treva Lindsey is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her research and teaching interests include African American women’s history, black popular culture, black feminism(s), critical race and gender theory, and African diaspora studies. She has published in The Journal of Pan-African Studies, Souls, and African and Black Diaspora. She is also the recipient of several awards and fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Women’s Studies Association. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled Re-Imagining Modernity: New Negro Womanhood in the Nation’s Capital as well as conducting research for a project about contemporary African American womanhood and hip hop soul.
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9th Wonder of Little Brother Check out his site! Born Patrick Denard Douthit in Winston-Salem, NC, 9th Wonder is a Grammy Award Winning Producer, DJ, College Lecturer, and Social Activist. Since his introduction to hip-hop in 1982, 9th has been immersed in the music and culture of the art form, while gaining experience in music theory throughout middle and high school. 9th attended North Carolina Central University, where he decided to pursue a career in music. He, along with Phonte Colerman and Thomas Jones (Rapper Big Pooh), formed the hip- hop trio Little Brother in 1998. The group released the critically acclaimed album “The Listening”, which received 4 mics in Source Magazine.
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Friday, October 7, 2011 at 4:00 PM
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Black Women Before, During and After the Civil War
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Darlene Clark Hine Northwestern University Darlene Clark Hine's Webpage.
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Deborah Gray White Rutgers University
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Thavolia Glymph Duke University
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Tiffany Gill University of Texas at Austin
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Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 4:00 PM
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The Legacy of the Civil War
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Leon Litwack University of California Berkeley, Emeritus
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COMMENTATORS:
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Chair, Shawn Alexander University of Kansas
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Thomas Holt University of Chicago
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David Blight Yale University
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