“FROM BROWN TO BLACK AND BEYOND: AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY” CONFERENCE
Afro-American Studies & Research Program
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Thursday, April 1, 2004
Spurlock Museum
600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana

“El Negro Mas Chulo: African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth”
(2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.)

Ayana Vellissia Jackson, Photographer, Brooklyn, New York

OPENING PLENARY SESSION (5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Spurlock Museum Auditorium

“Tell No Lies Claim No Easy Victories:” African American Studies, Its Legacies and the Challenges Ahead”

Molefi Asante, Professor, African American Studies, Temple University & Editor of the Journal of Black Studies

Robert Chrisman, Chair, Black Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of the Black Scholar

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor, Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College

RECEPTION (8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m)
Spurlock Museum

Friday, April 2, 2004

PLENARY SESSION I (9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.)
Illini Union, Room A

“Rhythms of Change: Revisiting and Reimagining the Institutionalization of African American Studies”

Manning Marable, Director of the Center for Contemporary Black History & Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York

Ula Taylor, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies & Ethnicity, University of California at Berkley

Fanon Wilkins, Facilitator, Assistant Professor, AASRP and History, UIUC

PLENARY SESSION II (11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
Illini Union, Room A

“Nigrescence Theory: Thirty Years of Theory & Research on Black Identity Theory”

William E. Cross, Jr., Professor and Head of the Doctoral Program in Social Personality Psychology, The Graduate Center, Psychology Department of City University of New York

LUNCH BREAK (12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m)

“Cross Currents Between Programs for the Study, Teaching and Engagement with Racialized Communities” (1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.)
Spurlock Museum Auditorium

David Roediger, Director, Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Kendrick Babcock, Professor, AASRP and History, UIUC

Scott Kurashige, Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Director of the Women Research, Texas A & M University

M. Bahati Kuumba, Associate Director of Women’s Research & Resource Center, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Spelmen College

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Associate Professor, Sociology, Texas A&M University

Pedro Caban, Professor Institute of Communications Research, UIUC

Kent Ono, Facilitator, Director & Professor, Asian American Studies Program, Professor Institute of Communications Research, UIUC

ROUNDTABLE CONVERSATION (3:34 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.)
Spurlock Museum

Black Art, Culture & Politics

Mark Anthony Neal, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

Nichole Rustin, Assistant Professor, AASRP and the Institute for Communication Research, UIUC

Frances Gateward, Facilitator, Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies, UIUC

Saturday, April 3, 2004

PLENARY SESSION I (9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.)
Illini Union, Rooms A & B

“Excavating the Chasm of the Past: Reparations and Renewing Rhythms of Resistance”

KRS-ONE, Recording Artist, Activist, Founder and Director, Temple of Hip Hop

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Director of the AASRP & Associate Professor of History, UIUC

LUNCH BREAK (12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.)

CONCURRENT SESSIONS (1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.)
(CALL FOR PAPERS)

A. In Our Own Image: Black Expression, Aesthetics, and Culture
Nichole Rustin, Facilitator, Assistant Professor, AASRP & Institute of Communication Research, UIUC

B. Health, Wellness, and the Longevity of Community
Assata Zerai, Facilitator, Associate Professor, AASRP & Sociology, UIUC

C. Untying the Bonds of History
Erik McDuffie, UIUC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Damion Thomas, Facilitator, Assistant Professor, AASRP & Kinesiology, UIUC

FINAL PLENARY (3:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.)
Illini Union, Room A

“Re-Evaluating the Mission(s) of African American Studies”

James Conyers, Director & Professor of African American Studies, University of Houston

Charles Jones, Chair of the Department of African-American Studies & Associate Professor, Georgia State University

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Professor, History & Geography, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD

Lou Turner, Assistant Professor Sociology, North Central College, Naperville, Illinois

Barrington Edwards, Facilitator, Assistant Professor, AASRP & History, UIUC