PROGRAM - Friday, February 28, 2020

50 YEARS OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AT HARVARD

Free and open to the public (no tickets required)
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020

MEMORIAL CHURCH, HARVARD YARD

1:30 PM: OPENING REMARKS
Tommie Shelby, Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

1:45 PM: THE KUUMBA SINGERS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

2:00 PM: WELCOMING REMARKS
Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

2:15 PM: ROUNDTABLE: FOUNDERS AND EARLY DAYS
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (moderator), Alphonse Fletcher University Professor; Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University
Lee A. Daniels ’71, Journalist and Writer
Jeffrey P. Howard ’69, Founder and President of the Efficacy Institute
Octavia Hudson ‘71, CEO, Weall Media
Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Henry Rosovsky, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Emeritus, Geyser University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

4:00 PM BREAK

4:15 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Fixed and Calmly Brilliant: Fifty Years of African and African American Studies at Harvard”


Efarah_griffinvelyn Brooks Higginbotham (introduction), Chair of the Department of History; Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Farah Jasmine Griffin ‘85, Chair of the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies; William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies, Columbia University

5:30 PM: YOSVANY TERRY QUINTET

Ingrid Monson (introduction), Chair of the Department of Music; Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment; Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Yosvany Terry, saxophonist, composer, percussionist
Manolo Mairena, singer and percussionist
Julian Miltenberger, percussionist
Osmany Paredes, pianist, composer and arranger
Yunior Terry, bassist, violinist, composer

6:00 PM ART EXHIBIT AND RECEPTION AT HUTCHINS CENTER
Dell M. Hamilton presents “The Extraordinary Commission: Student Activism and the Birth of Afro-American Studies at Harvard” at the Rudenstine Gallery, Hutchins Center, 3rd Floor