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Kerr-Ritchie <p>April 20, 2011</br> Frederick Douglass Hall B-21</br> 10:00-2:00</br> <p>Panel 1: 10:00-11:45 <p>Adrienne Dunn,  A Glimmer of Hope: Emancipation Day Celebrations in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1870-1898. <p>John R. Tilghman,  Black History, Memorializing the Civil War, and the Politics of Space in Baltimore. <p>TaKeia Anthony,  The Home Front: The U.S.-African Issues as told by The African, 1935-1946. <p>Myra Houser,  The De Beers Group and Government Partnerships in Botswana and Namibia. <p>11:45-12:15 BREAK <p>Panel 2: 12:15-2:00 <p>Darren Wade,  African American Politics in Southern Maryland in a Post-Emancipation Society. <p>Jamie Bennett,  F Stands For Freedom: Efforts in Liberation Through Education Across the African Diaspora. <p>Mesi Walton,  The Ethnic Connection of Africa with Venezuela: The Language of Afro-Venezuelans and the Significance of the Instruments in Cuiepe, La Sabana and La Vela. <p>Kimberly Brown,  Earning The Crown: The Role of African American Pageantry in the Developing Black Girls into Women. <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p><b>Spring History PhD defenses<p></b> <p>April 13, 2011</br>  Providing Opportunities for the African American Community: Hampton Institute and the New Deal </br> Jametta Davis</br> Graduate School Building, room 205</br> 10:00 am</br> <p>April 14, 2011</br>  The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: The Gold Coast, the Asante, and the Illegal Era of Slave Trading, 1807-1874 </br> Jarvis Hargrove</br> Graduate School Building, room 205</br> 11:00 am</br> <p>April 14, 2011</br>  Black Magic Woman: Towards a Theory of Africana Women's Resistance </br> Iyelli Hanks</br> Graduate School Building, room 205</br> 2:00 PM</br> <p>April 26, 2011</br>  Borderland Blacks: Rochester, New York and St. Catherines, Ontario, 1850-1860 </br> Daniel Broyld</br> Graduate School Building, room 205</br> 3:00 pm</br> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p><b>Ms. Myra Houser winner of the 1st prize of the Graduate School Research Symposium<p></b> Ms Myra Houser, a PhD student in African history in the Department of History won the 1st prize of the Division 4 (Social Sciences) in the Graduate School Research Symposium held on April 4, 2011. Ms. Hoser paper was entitled "Two Oceans, How Many Stories?: Slave Trade and Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa, 1652-1847. The first draft of this paper was prepared for the graduate course Problems in African History I, taught by Dr. Jeanne Maddox Toungara in the Fall 2010. We also congratulate the other graduate students of the Department of history who also participated in the symposium: Mr. George Kintiba, Mr. Sonja Woods, Mr. Womai Song, Mr. Bartholomew Toe, Mr. Jarvis Hargrove, Ms. Jocelyn Cole, and Ms. Shvonne Johnson.</p> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p><b>Congratulations to Mr. Daniel Broyld !<p></b> Mr. Daniel Broyld won the First Place in the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Graduate Paper Competition for his work "Rochester, New York: A Transnational Community for Blacks Prior to the Civil War." This work is part of Mr. Broyld PhD dissertation which he is completing under the supervision of Dr. Edna G. Medford. <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p>The History Department at Howard University is proud to announce the visit of <b>Professor Gwendolyn M. Hall</b> from Michigan State University to talk on "Stirring Up the Melting Pot: The Struggle to Remember." This wonderful event is scheduled for March 24, 2011, 4:00-6:00pm, at Founders Library Browsing Room.</p> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p>Professor <b>Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali</b> was selected by the UNESCO Scientific Committee of the General History of Africa to be member of the drafting teams responsible for elaborating common content and guides for history teachers for use in primary and secondary schools. As member of this committee, Dr. Mabeko-Tali will be participating in the first meeting of the Drafting Teams in Pretoria, South Africa, from 28 to 30 April 2011. The aim of this meeting is to enable the Drafting Teams to consult with the Scientific Committee members, to exchange on the methodology to be adopted, working methods and to define a work plan. He will also participate in the workshop on the decolonization of concepts, paradigms and categorizations used in Social and Human Sciences applied to Africa to be held prior to this meeting on 26 and 27 April.</p> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p>The Department of History invites everyone to attend the lecture <b> Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: African Americans, Food and Power </b> by Professor <b>Psyche Williams-Forson</b> of University of Maryland. This lecture is part of the African American History Month Program 2011 and will be held at 11:15 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 23, in the Blackburn Center, room 150. For more information, contact Professor Elizabeth Clark-Lewis of Department of History at huclarklewis@aol.com </p> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p>The Department of History and the Graduate School welcome historian <b>Peter H. Wood</b> (Emeritus Professor, Duke University) who will lecture on his newest book <i><b>Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer Civil War</i></b> (Harvard University Press, 2010) on February 8th 2011 (Tuesday), 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, in the Browsing Room, Founders Library. This book is based on Professor Wood 2009 Huggins Lectures at Harvard University examining one of Winslow Homer s most striking paintings, a wartime image of an enslaved black woman in Georgia, disappeared for a century after its completion in 1866. The revealing original title,  Near Andersonville, was not uncovered until 1987. Peter H. Wood delves deeply into this forgotten picture for the first time, expanding our view of this great American artist and challenging American culture s lingering reluctance to confront its own painful past. By integrating art and history, Wood s provocative study gives us a fresh vantage point on Homer s early career, the struggle to end slavery, and the closing years of the Civil War, when the outcome was far more doubtful than most now realize.  Wood has unraveled the deep and subtle meanings expressed in the painting. Professor Wood is the author of several widely used books on early American slavery, such as <i><b>Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion</i></b> and <i><b>Strange New Land: African Americans 1617-1776</i></b>. He is also the co-author of an important U.S. History survey text entitled Created Equal, now in its third edition. In 1988, he worked with art scholar Karen Dalton on the path-breaking exhibition and book entitled Winslow Homer s Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years, and he is the author of <i>Weathering the Storm: Inside Winslow Homer s  Gulf Stream. </i> For more information, contact: Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo (Department of History).</p> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p>Congratulations to <b>Jalil Muhammad</b>, major in history at the Department of history, who is one of 25 Fellows selected for the second cohort of the Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color (WW-RBF). The 25 WW-RBF Fellows were chosen through a competitive selection process and will receive a $30,000 stipend to complete a master s degree in education, preparation to teach in a high-need public school, support throughout a three-year teaching commitment, and guidance toward teaching certification. Each Fellow was nominated by one of the program s 25 university partners. Established in 1992 by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), the Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color were created to help recruit, support, and retain individuals of color as public education teachers and administrators. In January 2009, RBF transferred the program to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, where it has become part of a suite of Teaching Fellowships that seek to recruit, prepare and retain effective teachers for the students and schools who need them most.</p> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p>On January 27, PhD candidate <b>Daniel Broyld</b> gave a talk about his PhD dissertation "Borderland Blacks, Rochester, New York and St. Catherines, 1850-1860" at the St. Catherines Museum at Lock, in an event sponsored by the Historical Society of St. Catherines. Mr. Broyld dissertation examines the back and forth migration of blacks and others across Niagara's border crossings in the years leading up to the American Civil War.</p> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/135206.html">Watch the video</a> of <b>Dr. Quito Swan</b> (Department of History) presenting the paper "Freedom Fighter or Criminal? The Politics of Memorializing Sally Bassett and Slavery in Bermuda" during the workshop Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space" convened by Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association on January 7, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts.</p> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p><b>Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo</b> convened the <b>Multi-Session Workshop - Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space</b> during the 125th American Historical Association meeting in Boston, January 6-9, 2011. Among the participants in the 8 panels of this workshop were scholars based in the United States, France, Belgium, Canada, and England, including Howard Professors Ana Lucia Araujo and Quito Swan from the Department of History. The full workshop program containing the various panels and papers abstracts is available <a href="http://aha.confex.com/aha/2011/webprogram/Symposium620.html">here</a>. <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p><b>Professor Mabeko-Tali</b> participated in the meeting of the Scientific Committee for the Pedagogical <i>Use of the General History of Africa</i> Project, organized in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) from 24 to 28 October 2010. This committee was intended to carry out the difficult task of selecting members of the drafting teams who will elaborate the common content and teachers guides for use in African schools.</p> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p><b>Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo</b> was an invited participant in the panel  Los sitios de memoria de la esclavitud en África y en América in the International Seminar <a href="http://www.turismoculturalun.org.ar/activ_esclav2010.htm">  La Ruta del Esclavo: huellas y legados de la esclavitud en nuestras sociedades, </a> held in Buenos Aires (Argentina) from October 4 to October 5, 2010.</p> <p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p> <p><strong>Annual Lectures</strong></p> <p><strong>Lorraine A. Williams Lecture</strong></p> Held each fall to encourage the dissemination of the ideas of African-American scholars in history and related disciplines, this series was established by the late Dr. Williams after she became the chair of the department. The lecture series also supports student scholarship. <p><strong>Merze Tate Annual Seminar in Diplomatic History</strong></p> Begun in 1977 to support the international scope of the department, this lecture is an opportunity to enhance communication between the department and the scholarly diplomatic community. <p><strong>Rayford W. Logan Lecture</strong></p> Established in 1970 to promote scholarly discussion of the wider African- American community, this annual spring lecture offers a scholarship prize. </font></p>