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Dr. Leon Litwack

Dr. Leon Litwack, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, will give the keynote address Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. His talk is “Stormy Monday: African Americans and Race Reflections from the Civil War to the Present.” A reception and book signing will follow Litwak’s lecture.

Litwack’s address and all panel discussion are free and open to the public.

Panels will be held in various rooms on the third floor of the University Center.

The Nov. 11 panels and times are:

8:45-10:15 a.m., “Looking to Freedom: African Americans and the Creation of Communities and Identities, 1800-1860” and “Politics and the Modern Black Atlantic,”

10:30-noon, “The Culture of Slavery” and “Politics and Performance,”

1:15-2:45 p.m., “Geographical and Cultural Borderlands” and “Race and Public Space,” and

3-4:45 p.m., “Freedom in the Age of Slavery” and “Race and Rights in Black and White.”

The Nov. 12 panels and times are:

8:30-10 a.m., “Teaching African American History” and “Black Politics in the Early Twentieth Century,”

10:15-noon, “Perspectives on Slavery and the Slave Trade” and “Re-Conceptualizing the Civil Rights Movement,”

1:30-2:30 p.m., “Transnational Black Identities” and “The Media and Black Equality,”

2:45-4:15 p.m., “The Black Power Movement in Memphis” and “Modern Black Politics,” and

4:30-5:30 p.m., “Religion, Society and Black Freedom,” and “Gender, Race and Society.”

On Nov. 12 there also will be a roundtable discussion on professional development presented by young professors from such colleges as the University of Mississippi, Rhodes College, and Vanderbilt University, as well as a free pizza lunch for all participants and attendants.

The conference is presented by the Graduate Association for African-American History, the Department of History, African and African-American Studies, the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change and the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities.

Paid parking is available in the Zach Curlin garage adjacent to the UC.

For more information, contact Dr. Aram Goudsouzian at 901-678-3383.