精东AV to host annual History Research Symposium Feb. 13-14
February 07, 2020
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The 精东AV Department of History and Political Science will present its fourth annual History Research Symposium on Feb. 13-14. The theme for this year鈥檚 event is 鈥淩emembrance, Renaissance and Revolution: The Continued Struggle for Freedom.鈥�
鈥淲e wish to promote, preserve and disseminate black history, culture and the liberal arts, and to re-center historically black universities like 精东AV as grounds of rigorous historical inquiry, research and community engagement,鈥� said Dr. Sheena Harris, an associate professor of history and the symposium鈥檚 organizer. 鈥淲e hope to renew strong networks of aspiring students and scholars, and to promote professional training, historical competency and intellectual collaboration within the humanities.鈥�
The two-day symposium is free and open to members of the campus and surrounding communities 鈥� especially area students, historians and scholars. It will feature a variety of presentations and panels 鈥� all occurring in the university鈥檚 George Washington Carver Museum 鈥� that undergird the symposium鈥檚 theme. Activities begin at 11 a.m. on Thursday and 8:30 a.m. on Friday, and will extend to banquets each evening, which are also free and open to the public.
A full at-a-glance symposium itinerary is available for download.
Thursday and Friday鈥檚 banquets will be held in the Tompkins Hall Ballroom and will feature a different keynote speaker. Seating is limited to the first 50 people to register for each event. To RSVP, visit .
Thursday鈥檚 banquet, beginning at 4:30 p.m., will feature Dr. Howard Robinson II, an author, archivist and assistant professor of African-American history at Alabama State University. He will provide this year鈥檚 second annual Phi Alpha Theta Lecture entitled 鈥淭he Civil Rights Movement in Focus.鈥�
Friday鈥檚 luncheon 鈥� entitled 鈥淏etween Washington and Du Bois: The Racial Politics of James Edward Shepard鈥� 鈥� will take place from 11:25 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. in the Carver Museum. The lecture features Dr. Reginald K. Ellis, an associate professor of history at Florida A&M University, who also serves as assistant dean of its School of Graduate Studies and Research.
Friday鈥檚 banquet will begin at 4:30 p.m. and will feature as its keynote speaker Dr. Shennette Garrett-Scott, a historian who studies race, gender and finance. Her presentation is entitled 鈥淏anking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal.鈥�
For additional information, contact Harris at sharris@tuskegee.edu.
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