SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
The 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference
ASALH will hold innovative virtual programming in the month of September celebrating the 2021 Black History Theme, The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity. Check back for schedules, times, and other updates.
ASALH Exhibitor Session: University of Pennsylvania Press
All Academic Conference PlatformThe virtual exhibit booth is a self-selected, 2 hour virtual presentation during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference. Presented alongside ASALH academic sessions, exhibitors can promote products, services, and programs to the attention of the ASALH attendees. A replay of the 2 hour virtual exhibit booth will be available on-demand on ASALH TV, the Association's premier YouTube channel.
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Jarvis Givens, “Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and The Art of Black Teaching”
All Academic Conference PlatformThe roundtable participants will offer a critical conversation on the African American intellectual tradition of teaching, while exploring what Givens calls "fugitive pedagogy" -- a theory and practice amongst Black educators.
Key Session: State of the Field: New International Histories of Black Women
ASALH TVThis session is co-sponsored by the Association of Black Women Historians and will feature Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Erika D. Edwards of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Tiffany Florvil of the University of New Mexico and moderated by Erica L. Ball, Occidental College.
Black People, Health and Wellness: A Historical Perspective
ASALH TVThis session will feature Vanessa Northington Gamble of George Washington University, Stephanie Y. Evans of Georgia State University, Dr. Thaddeus Bell, M.D. of Closing the Gap in Healthcare, Inc., David Williams of Harvard University.
Author’s Book Talk: Nik Ribianszky
All Academic Conference PlatformThe Author’s Book Talk Event will feature one author for a 15 minute virtual presentation during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference.
Author’s Book Talk: Derrick Alridge
All Academic Conference PlatformThe Author’s Book Talk Event will feature one author for a 15 minute virtual presentation during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference.
Author’s Book Talk: Paula Austin
All Academic Conference PlatformThe Author’s Book Talk Event will feature one author for a 15 minute virtual presentation during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference.
Film Festival: Breakwater Studio – The Power of Short Films
ASALH TVBreakwater Studios will feature 4 short films: The Lost Astronaut; Kim I Am; The Beauty President; A Concerto is a Conversation/ Kris's film - that explore African Americans' lives in concert with their familial relationships.
Author’s Book Talk: Latrice Rollins
All Academic Conference PlatformThe Author’s Book Talk Event will feature one author for a 15 minute virtual presentation during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference.
ASALH Exhibitor Session: University Press of Mississippi
All Academic Conference PlatformThe virtual exhibit booth is a self-selected, 2 hour virtual presentation during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference. Presented alongside ASALH academic sessions, exhibitors can promote products, services, and programs to the attention of the ASALH attendees. A replay of the 2 hour virtual exhibit booth will be available on-demand on ASALH TV, the Association's premier YouTube channel.
ASALH Exhibitor Session: Prudential Hosted by Tiby Saunders of Cetera Investors
All Academic Conference PlatformRetirement Strategies and Legacy Planning will be the main topics of discussion. Managing Risks in the Retirement Red Zone will provide a detailed discussion on the challenges of managing income in retirement. We will discuss myths in retirement planning, risks in retirement and creating a plan that could withstand some of the predictable threats to retirement income. Legacy Planning Strategies focuses on the importance of planning for wealth transfer, and estate planning for retirement assets.
Felix Armfield Series – Tenure Dos and Don’ts: HBCUs vs. State Institutions
ASALH TVThis session workshop will feature Presenters Clarence Lang of Pennsylvania State University, Gregory Lamont Mixon of University of North Carolina Charlotte, and chaired by Rose C. Thevenin of Florida Memorial University.
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Brandi Brimmer, “Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South”
All Academic Conference PlatformThis roundtable panel will discuss Brandi Brimmer's 2021 book, "Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South." Panelists will engage Brimmer's fascinating work on Black women's public and private lives during the Reconstruction era.
Key Session: Creating Black Families: Black Marriage and Black Love
ASALH TVThis session will feature Randal Jelks of University of Kansas, Aneeka A. Henderson of Amherst College, Ayesha K. Hardison of University of Kansas, and Dianne M. Stewart of Emory University.
From Roots to Ancestry: Doing Black Family History
ASALH TVThis session will feature Gina Paige from African Ancestry, Inc., Elizabeth Clark-Lewis of Howard University, Debra Newman Ham, Morgan State University, Kendra Field, Tufts University.
Author’s Book Talk: Kevin McGruder
All Academic Conference PlatformThe Author’s Book Talk Event will feature one author for a 15 minute virtual presentation during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference.
Author’s Book Talk: Morna Lahnice Hollister
All Academic Conference PlatformThe Author’s Book Talk Event will feature one author for a 15 minute virtual presentation during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference.
Author’s Book Talk: Maxine Smith
All Academic Conference PlatformThe Author’s Book Talk Event will feature one author for a 15 minute virtual presentation during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference.
Author’s Book Talk: James Wingo
All Academic Conference PlatformThe Author’s Book Talk Event will feature one author for a 15 minute virtual presentation during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference.
Author’s Book Talk: Cherisse Jones-Branch
All Academic Conference PlatformThe Author’s Book Talk Event will feature one author for a 15 minute virtual presentation during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference.
Felix Armfield Series – Estate Planning and Legacy Building
ASALH TVThis session workshop will feature Presenter Vicki Brackens of Brackens Financial Solutions Network and Chaired by Rose C. Thevenin of Florida Memorial University.
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Tyrone McKinley Freeman: “Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow”
All Academic Conference PlatformThe roundtable panel will include presenters Tyrone McKinley Freeman of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Dennis Clark Dickerson of Vanderbilt University, Crystal M. Moten, Smithsonian Institution of the National Museum of American History, LaShawn Harris of Michigan State University, and chaired by Tiffany Gill of the University of Delaware.
Film Festival: SHOT: Caught a Soul
ASALH TVSHOT: Caught a Soul One shot is heard in the night. A Black teen is down. A White officer stands over him. There are no witnesses. A family is changed forever. But, this time, the victim will be heard. Kareem haunts Officer O'Donald - demanding answers. Why did you do it?
Key Session: African-American Families in Florida through Public History
ASALH TVThis session will feature Jada Wright-Greene of Florida's Historic African American Homes, Brandon Knightingale of Bethune-Cookman University, Charlene Farrington of South Florida Branch, and Rodney Hurst, Jr. of ASALH Florida James Weldon Johnson Branch. Dr. TaKeia Anthony of Kentucky State University will moderate.
Illuminating the Black Family in History: A Retrospective on Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
ASALH TVA Retrospective on Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Recipient of ASALH’s Inaugural Luminary Award featuring Henry Louis Gates of Harvard University, award-winning artist and philanthropist John Legend, artist and philanthropist, S. Epatha Merkerson, and moderated by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, ASALH President and Harvard University.
Film Festival: Racially Charged
ASALH TVRacially Charged exposes how our country’s history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of criminal justice power. Through first-person accounts of those charged under the Black Codes of the Reconstruction era paralleled with the outrageous stories of people trapped in the system today, the film brings to light the unfolding of a powerful engine of profits and racial inequality.
Film Festival: Geographies of Kinship
ASALH TVGeographies of Kinship is a powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program. four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and recover the personal histories that were lost when they were adopted. Raised in foreign families, each sets out on a journey to reconnect with their roots, mapping the geographies of kinship that bind them to a homeland they never knew.
Felix Armfield Series – The Publication Landscape Post COVID-19
ASALH TVThis session workshop will feature Randal Jelks of University of Kansas Pero Dagbovie of Michigan State University, and chaired by Rose C. Thevenin of Florida Memorial University.
Film Festival: Dreams of Emmett Till
ASALH TVIn Dreams of Emmett Till, a now elderly Carolyn Bryant must face the accusation that led to the brutal killing of 14-year old Emmett Till, back in segregated Mississippi, in 1955.
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: V. P. Franklin’s “Young Crusaders”
All Academic Conference PlatformThis book roundtable panel will discuss V. P. Franklin's 2021 book, "The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement." This special book panel will include presenters V. P. Franklin of University of California, Riverside, Genna Rae McNeil, Derrick P. Alridge of University of Virginia, Linda Perkins of Claremont Graduate University, and chaired by Jarvis R. Givens of Harvard University.
The Centennial Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre and Anti-Black Violence
ASALH TVThis session will feature Karlos Hill of University of Oklahoma, John W. Franklin of Franklin Global, Inc./Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture and Melissa N. Stuckey of Elizabeth City State University.
Film Festival: Invisible History: Middle Florida’s Hidden Roots
ASALH TVInvisible History sheds light on the little-known history of plantations and the enslaved in Florida through a visually compelling story that explores the history of a people who contributed so much to what Leon county is today.
ASALH Exhibitor Session: Georgetown University Press
All Academic Conference PlatformThe virtual exhibit booth is a self-selected, 2 hour virtual presentation during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference. Presented alongside ASALH academic sessions, exhibitors can promote products, services, and programs to the attention of the ASALH attendees. A replay of the 2 hour virtual exhibit booth will be available on-demand on ASALH TV, the Association's premier YouTube channel.
ASALH Annual Membership Business Meeting
Online via ZoomAnnual Membership Business Meeting Thursday, September 30, 2021 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. EST Registration is required 24 hours prior to the meeting for all voting members This meeting will […]
