Location:
Rutgers Academic Building East Wing
Room 2400
15 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Reclaiming Black Women’s Lives:
A Symposium Honoring the Intellectual Work of Deborah Gray White
PANELS
Thursday, March 21
12:25 - 12:45: Event Registration
12:45 - 1:15 PM Symposium Opening: Welcomes
1:15 - 2:30 PM PANEL 1
“Breaking the Silences: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower.”
- Moderator: Sharon Harley, University of Maryland College Park
- Brenda Stevenson, St. John’s College University of Oxford
- Crystal Feimster, Yale University
- Wanda Hendricks, University of South Carolina, Professor Emerita
2:30 - 2:45 PM BREAK
2:45 - 4:15 PM PANEL 2
“The Art and Practice of Institution Building: African American History at Rutgers.”
- Moderator: Kim Butler, RU New Brunswick
- Scarlet and Black: Kendra Boyd, RU Camden
- Postdoc 2014-15: D’Weston Haywood, Hunter College CUNY
- History Department: Nancy Hewitt, RU New Brunswick, Professor Emerita
- RCHA/Black Atlantic: Carolyn Brown, RU New Brunswick
4:30 - 5:00 PM BREAK
5:00 - 6:30 PM Keynote
"Sister Scholar and Heavy Loads: Archives, History, and Mentorship in the Work of Deborah Gray White"
Jennifer Morgan, New York University
6:30 - 7:30 PM Reception
Friday, March 22
10:00 - 11:15 AM Panel 3
Ar'n’t I a Woman- “More History than Myth:” Rethinking Black Women, Gender, and Slavery.
- Moderator: Marisa Fuentes, RU New Brunswick
- Stephanie Jones-Rogers, UC Berkeley
- Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Connecticut
- Daina Ramey Berry, UC Santa Barbara
11:15 - 12:45 PM Panel 4
“In Defense of Themselves:” Black Women, Activism, and Organizing
- Moderator: Francille Rusan Wilson, University of Southern California
- Crystal Sanders, Emory University
- Rhonda Williams, Wayne State University
- Kellie Carter-Jackson, Wellesley College
- Shennette Garrett-Scott, Tulane University
12:45 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 - 3:15 PM Panel 5
“Writing the Past…Conjuring the Future: Black Women’s History in the 21st Century.”
- Moderator: Erica Dunbar, RU New Brunswick
- Ula Taylor, UC Berkeley
- Tera Hunter, Princeton University
- Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
- Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University
3:15 - 3:30PM Break
3:30 - 5:00PM Keynote
"Deborah Gray White: Scholar, Citizen, Midtown New Yorker."
Keynote Speaker
Nell Painter, Princeton University, Professor Emerita
Sponsors:
Rutgers History Department
Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History Deborah Gray White
Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
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