#  PROGRAM - Friday, February 28, 2020 

 



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## 50 Years Of African And African American Studies At Harvard

#### Free and open to the public (no tickets required)  
\#Harvard\_AAAS50

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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”

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**Evelyn 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