1619: The Making of America
<p> Please join us for 1619: The Making of America’s 2013 conference to be held at the Hampton Convention Center in Hampton Virginia and Norfolk State University on September 26-27.</p> <p> This conference seeks to place the events stemming from 1619 within the context of Atlantic migration, culture, and race, and will emphasize the wide-ranging, familiar, and mobile character of the African Diaspora. The overarching point is that Chesapeake society was part of a hybrid and global culture predicated on intimate and overlapping encounters among Africans, Native Americans, Western Europeans, and other cultures from around the globe.</p> <p> Featured speakers for the conference include Michael Blakey (Director of the Institute for Historical Biology and the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor, College of William and Mary), Paul Finkelman (President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow, Government Law Center, Albany Law School), Linda Heywood (Professor of History and African American Studies at Boston University), James Sweet (Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin), John Thornton (Professor of African and African Diaspora History at Boston University), and Ben Vinson III (Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of Latin American History and Vice Dean of Centers and Interdepartmental Programs, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University).</p> <p> The conference is sponsored in part, by the National Endowment for the Humanities and is supported by ODU's College of Arts and Humanities and the Postcolonial Research Group at ODU.</p> <p> For details about the initiative and for the conference schedule, please visit <a href="http://www.1619.us/">http://www.1619.us/</a>.</p>
Posted By: Delores Phillips
Date: Tue Sep 17 13:28:12 EDT 2013