Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University

Conference Announcement

BLACK LIBERATION AND THE SPIRIT OF '57

Fernand Braudel Center

Binghamton University

November 2-3, 2007

All sessions are held at the Fernand Braudel Center, Academic A 330

Friday November 2nd

10:00-10:10

Welcoming Remarks: Richard Lee, Director, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University

10:10-10:30

Opening Comments: Michael O. West, Binghamton University

10:30-10:45: break

10:45-12:00

Chair: Anne Bailey, Binghamton University

Presenter: Elizabeth Schmidt, Loyola College, “Black Liberation and the Spirit of ’57: The Ghana-Guinea Legacy”

Discussant: Adeolu Ademoyo, Binghamton University

12:00-1:30: Lunch

1:30-2:45

Chair: Dale Tomich, Binghamton University

Presenter: David Garrow, Homerton College, Cambridge University, “Foreshadowing the Future: 1957 and the U.S. Black Freedom Struggle”

Discussant: Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Syracuse University

2:45-3:00: break

3:00-4:15

Chair: Richard Lee, Binghamton University

Presenter: Robert Darden, Baylor University, “Sam Cooke, ‘You Send Me,’ and the American Highway”

Discussant: James Burns, Binghamton University

Saturday November 3rd

10:00-11:15

Chair: Reynaldo Ortiz, Binghamton University

Presenter: William Martin, Binghamton University, “1957 Whitewash: Africanist and Black Traditions in the Study of Africa”

Discussant: Ravi Palat, Binghamton University

11:15-11:30: break

11:30-12:45:

Chair: Lisa Yun, Binghamton University

Presenter: Alex Dupuy, Wesleyan University, “Legacies of the Haitian Revolution: The Duvalier Regime and Color Politics in Haiti 1957-1971”

Discussant: Kelvin Santiago, Binghamton University

12:45-1:45: Lunch

1:45-3:00

Chair: Merle Bowen, University of Illinois

Presenter: Jacques Depelchin, “Thinking through African History in the Spirit of 1957”

Discussants: Horace Campbell, Syracuse University, Merle Bowen, University of Illinois

3:00-3:15: break

3:15-4:15: Summation: Horace Campbell and Audience

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