Program on October 25 canceled due to logistical issues.The Anna Julia Cooper Workshop in Black History
Fall 2019
October. 25, 4:30 p.m. Taliaferro Hall 2110.
Minkah Makalani, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas, Austin, “The Role of Artists in Caribbean Democracy”
The Cooper Workshop will be housed in the History Department at UMD and aims to foster an intellectual community of scholars of African American history in the larger DMV area.
Five to six times per academic year, we will discuss a colleague's precirulcated paper. The Workshop draws an interdisciplinary community from the area with expertise in a wide reach of the field. Graduate students are at the heart of the community that the Cooper Workshop hopes to foster and, as such, are encouraged to attend Workshop events. Each session will feature a graduate student discussant who will deliver a brief response to the work-in-progress and initiate the open discussion to follow.
Papers will be circulated one week in advance of the workshop, which will meet on Fridays, from 4:30-6:00 p.m. at the University of Maryland, unless a special location is noted. The schedule for the academic year is below.
Fall 2019
October. 25, 4:30 p.m. Taliaferro Hall 2110.
Minkah Makalani, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas, Austin, “The Role of Artists in Caribbean Democracy”
November 22, 4:00 p.m. Taliaferro Hall 2110.
Psyche Williams Forson, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland, “Low Down Dirty Shame: Food Shaming and Food Policing in Black Communities”
Spring 2020
February 28, 4:30 p.m. Taliaferro Hall 2110.
Jessica Millward, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine, "'Seemed to be one of those women': African American Women and Intimate Partner Violence in the Post Civil War South"
Tiffany Gill, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, University of Delaware; "Retreat, but Don't Surrender: Civil Rights Activists and the Problem of Leisure."
April 24, 4:30 p.m. Taliaferro Hall 2110.
Christopher Freeburg, Professor of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "When did We Become an Us: The Origins of Black Culture as an Idea during Slavery"
Stanley Maxson, doctoral candidate in the History department at UMD, will be the graduate student coordinator of The Cooper Workshop. If you have any questions, please feel free to email him (smaxson@terpmail.umd.edu [1]) or me (qtmills@umd.edu [2]).
Links:
[1] mailto:smaxon@umd.edu
[2] mailto:qtmills@umd.edu
[3] http://history.umd.edu/department/history