ASALH Annual Meeting & Conference Highlights: September 27 – October 1, 2017
Luncheons & Ecumenical Breakfast
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ThursdayTeachers LuncheonSpeaker: Geneva Gay |
ThursdayLuncheonSpeaker: Judge Nathaniel Jones, “Answering the Call” |
FridayCarter G Woodson LuncheonSpeaker: Filmmaker Stanley Nelson, “Tell them We are Rising” |
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SaturdayBlassingame LuncheonSpeaker: Historian and Social Critic Jelani Cobb |
SaturdayASALH Annual BanquetSpeaker: Marian Wright Edelman, Children’s Defense Fund |
SundayASALH Ecumenical BreakfastSpeaker: Rev. Damon Lynch, Jr. |
See the full conference schedule
Presidential Session
SCHOOLS, INCARCERATION, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE – Thursday, Sept. 28
When Schools are Pipelines to Prison
Moderator: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University
Presenters: When Schools are Pipelines to Prison, Victoria Straughn, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Is Justice a Probable Outcome? Judge Cheryl D. Grant, Hamilton County Municipal Court, Cincinnati, Ohio
The State of Police Community Relations: Strategies in Police Reformation, S. Gregory Baker, University of Cincinnati Department of Public Safety, former Executive Manager of Community Relations, Cincinnati Police Department (retired)
The Decarceration Movement and Law Reform, David Singleton, Executive Director, Ohio Justice and Policy Center
The Fight against Wrongful Conviction, Jennifer Paschen Bergeron, The Ohio Innocence Project, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Roundtable
WRITING BLACK WOMEN: A CONVERSATION ON THE SCHOLARSHIP OF ULA YVETTE TAYLOR – Saturday, Sept. 30
Chair: Gerald Horne, The University of Houston & Storming the Heavens
Discussants: Robin Kelley, UCLA; Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University; Francille Wilson, University of Southern California; Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ashley Farmer, Boston University
Co-sponsored by: The Association of Black Women Historians, (ABWH)
Plenaries
Plenary Session I- Thursday
The Crisis in Black Education:
Panelists: VP Franklin (pictured above), Joyce King, Noliwe Rooks, Vanessa Siddle Walker
Moderator: Sundiata Cha-Jua
Plenary Session II- Friday
Black Cincinnati: Progress or Retreat: Keith Griffler, Eric Jackson, and Ashley Howard
Moderator: Nikki Taylor
Plenary Session III-Saturday
Black Women and the Politics of Respectability: Brittney C. Cooper, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Treva B. Lindsey, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Moderator: Karsonya Wise Whitehead