Conference Agenda

My Soul Looks Back: Music and Memory in the Black Experience
Commemorating the Artistry of Mahalia Jackson

Friday, February 29, 2009

9:00-9:10 a.m Opening and Welcome / Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall (CRH)                                                    
Richard Torgerson, President Luther College
Moderator: Martin Klammer, Department Head Africana Studies, Professor English Department

9:15-10:20 a.m  Panel I: Black Migrations: Historical Roots
Richard Mtisi, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies and History

Karlos Hill, Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow

Moderator: Edward Tebbenholf, Associate Professor, History Department

10:30-10:50 a.m. Conference Chapel
Center for Faith and Life

11:00-noon. Black Artists of Dc Panel and Gallery Tour
Moderators: David Kamm, Art Gallery Coordinator Assistant Professor of Art
Richard K. Merritt, Associate Professor of Art

Noon-1:00 p.m. Conference Luncheon / Peace Dining Room

Panel TBA

1:00-1:30 p.m Conference Break

1:30-2:20 p.m. Panel 1: Faith and Movement: Faith and the Migratory Experience CRH           
Panelists: Lawrence Williams, Professor, History Africana Studies

              Guy Nave, Associate Professor of Religion

              Director, Paideia II Program

              Pamela Cook, Visiting Instructor in Political Science

Moderator: TBA

2:30-3:30 p.m. Plenary Lecture:CFL
Farah Jasmine Griffin, Director of the Instute for Research in African-American Studies, Professor of English and Comparative Studies, Columbia University

Moderator: Novian Whitsitt  Program Director,

Gender and Women's Studies, Associate Professor of English, Africana Studies

3:30-3:45 p.m. Break / Qualley Lounge

3:45-5:00p.m. Tribute to Katherine Dunham CFL
Dance Tribute: Luther College Dance Ensemble
Musical Tribute: Luther College Jazz Orchestra

Creators: Jane Hawley, Associat Professor Dance

               Tony Guzman, Associate Professor, Music and Education
Moderator: TBA