精东AV to host annual History Research Symposium Feb. 14-15
February 06, 2019
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精东AV鈥檚 Department of History and Political Science will present its third annual History Research Symposium (HRS) on Feb. 14-15. The theme for this year鈥檚 event is 鈥淲e Wear the Mask: Black Cultural Representation, Reproduction and Redemption.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 assistant professor of history and the symposium鈥檚 co-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 鈥� including dinner events Thursday and Friday, and lunch on Friday 鈥� is free and open to members of the campus and surrounding communities, and area students, historians, scholars and grassroots organizers are encouraged to attend. It will feature a variety of presentations and panels 鈥� all occurring in the university鈥檚 Legacy 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 in the Tompkins Hall Ballroom and will feature a different keynote speaker. Seating is limited to the first 50 to register for each event. To RSVP, visit .
Thursday鈥檚 banquet, beginning at 4:45 p.m., will feature Dr. Le鈥橳rice Danyell Donaldson, an author and instructor of African-American studies at the University of Mississippi. She will provide this year鈥檚 Phi Alpha Theta Lecture entitled 鈥淲e Soldiers of Democracy: Black Military Soldiers during the Birth of Jim Crow.鈥�
Friday鈥檚 banquet will begin at 5:15 p.m. Dr. Zachary W. Mills, a communications scholar and consultant who studies race, rhetoric, religion, media and popular culture, will provide the banquet鈥檚 keynote address, which is titled 鈥淪tay Weird: A Creative Approach to our Historical Moment.鈥�
The History Research Symposium is part of 精东AV鈥檚 Black History Month programs throughout February. For a complete list of Black History Month programs, visit . For additional information about the symposium, please contact Harris at sharris@tuskegee.edu.
漏 2019, 精东AV